Binse.
bent, rush (grass)
Meaning & usage
bent, rush (grass)
ellipsis of Binsenweisheit
state of failure, wreckedness, almost exclusively in the following construction
Der Motor ist in die Binsen gegangen.
Das Geld ist in die Binsen gegangen.
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German bineʒ, from Old High German binuz, from Proto-West Germanic *binut. The idiom “in die Binsen gehen” is explained from the idea of hunted game being lost when the deer has alighted in the plants. It occurs also with Wicken.
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