What does the below quotation mean? Please provide literal and conventional translations. "Was ist mit Robert? Bei wem kriecht er heute unter? Er macht sich doch ins Hemd, wenn er allein hierbleibt."

DenoveMustelo

Jul 28, 2014 12:23 AM

Answers · 3

What's about Robert? At whose place he will hide today? If he stays here all alone, he will tremble in his shoes (to stay within the metaphor of clothes, but anyway, a literal translation makes no sense at all, just this: kriechen means to crawl, but unterkriechen means to find maybe a tiny place where to stay/sleep/hide, sich ins Hemd machen means to fear sth. very much, to be really afraid of.

July 28, 2014

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