chachem
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boy, clever — A vocative that tends to be used by Jewish speakers, suggesting that it might be an alternative to ‘wise guy’ in translating the Yiddish chachem. According to Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish, chachem (also spelt haham, chaham) is mainly used … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
Besinnen — 1. Besinne dich erst, was deine Schultern tragen können! 2. Besinnen bringt ersinnen. – Körte, 505. 3. Besinnen ist das Beste am Menschen. – Goldschmidt, 156; Körte, 507. Lat.: Vide quid agas (prima coitio est acerrima). (Terenz.) (Wiegand, 339.) … Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon
