Alma Haser
To let someone take the sausage from your bread (Sich die Wurst vom Brot nehmen lassen), 2025
Archival pigment print, with sausage cut out of final print
Unframed: 40 x 50cm
Framed: 43 x 53cm
Framed: 43 x 53cm
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
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This expression means; To put up with something / to accept disadvantages without protest. It’s not entirely clear where this idiom comes from, but its origin is easy to guess:...
This expression means; To put up with something / to accept disadvantages without protest.
It’s not entirely clear where this idiom comes from, but its origin is
easy to guess: Sausages were once particularly expensive and
valuable. They are also nutritious, and bread with a slice of sausage
simply tastes better than plain bread. If you let someone take the
best and most valuable part of your sandwich, it implies that you
tolerate a lot from others without protest.
The phrase is also often used in its negated form: If someone says,
“I won’t let them take the sausage off my bread!” they mean that
they won’t tolerate being taken advantage of.
It’s not entirely clear where this idiom comes from, but its origin is
easy to guess: Sausages were once particularly expensive and
valuable. They are also nutritious, and bread with a slice of sausage
simply tastes better than plain bread. If you let someone take the
best and most valuable part of your sandwich, it implies that you
tolerate a lot from others without protest.
The phrase is also often used in its negated form: If someone says,
“I won’t let them take the sausage off my bread!” they mean that
they won’t tolerate being taken advantage of.