Bunter Hund

Colourful Dog

“Bunter Hund”, literally translated, means multicoloured dog and you may ask why on earth my friends and I were talking about one of these!

Well, simple! We were having a conversation about being conspicuous and self-conscious – the idiom “sticking out like a sore thumb” came to mind. We agreed that this was the English equivalent for “Bunter Hund”. In English it can have negative connotations.

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