Hände falten, Goschn halten

fold your hands and shut up (Bavarian-Austrian phrase: be quiet and behave)

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A Bavarian-Austrian saying; 'Goschn' (also 'Gosche/Goschen') means mouth/gob. Literally 'fold your hands and keep your mouth shut' - a demand to be quiet and obedient. It goes back to early-20th-century schoolroom rhymes and prayer discipline, and today is mostly used critically, to denounce meek conformity and blind faith in authority.

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  • Jetzt is : Hände , Goschn !

    Quiet now: fold your hands and shut up!