March 2019

ENGLISH IDIOM OF THE MONTH:
„On the wrong side of the tracks“

 

MEANING
To live in an undesirable part of town.

TRANSLATION
Im Armenviertel
wörtlich: Auf der falschen Seite der Schienen

ORIGIN
In the 1800’s the train tracks of the railway often ran through the centre of a town with the rich on one side and the poor on the other.