råttan i pizzan
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom råttan (“the rat”) + i (“in”) + pizzan (“the pizza”), from an urban legend about a pizzeria serving rat meat to unaware customers, and from a book by Bengt af Klintberg.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit- (figurative) An urban legend
- Synonyms: vandringssägen, skröna, klintbergare
- 2014 July 31, “Nyheten om Zlatans jättebetalning falsk”, in Resumé:
- Nä, detta är verkligen en "råttan i pizzan", skriver Lars-Johan Jarnheimer i ett mejl till Metros Viralgranskaren.
- No, this is really an urban legend, writes Lars-Johan Jarnheimer in an email to Metro's Fact Checker.
- 2019 January 23, David Johansson, “Café möter Calvin Kleins klockguru Carlo Giordanetti”, in Café:
- Nästan alla mina klockbärande vänner skryter med sin farfars Omega med någon slags råttan i pizzan, Pulp Fiction-liknande historia bakom.
- Almost all of my watch-wearing friends show off with their grandfather's Omega with some kind of urban legend-esque, Pulp Fiction-like backstory.