ler och långhalm

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

Literally meaning "clay and long straw", using the shortened "ler" for "lera" (clay). The term comes from older times' manufacture of bricks when clay and straw were worked together, which would then be tightly joined together and difficult to distinguish.

Idiom edit

ler och långhalm

  1. (idiomatic) The expression means that two things (people, etc) are strongly related.

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