Translation for "fliegenruten" to english
Fliegenruten
Translation examples
Sie hatte ihn leidgeprüft angesehen, als sei er ein besonders begriffsstutziger Schüler beim Förderunterricht. »Was glauben Sie wohl, Control?« Inzwischen sprach sie seinen Namen betont ironisch aus, sodass er sich wie das Senkblei an der Fliegenrute seines Opas fühlte, das schon den Schlammboden Dutzender von Seen gesehen hatte.
She had given him a long-suffering look, as if he were a particularly slow student in a remedial class. “Why do you think, Control?” She’d already managed to attach an ironic weight to his name, so he felt as if he were the sinker on one of his grandpa’s fly rods, destined for the silt near the bottom of dozens of lakes.
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