Funny German words

[gmbka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKxg3sfnIxI

There is just one little mistake in this short video: Sitzfleisch does not mean bum, it means endurance. As in: Um eine Sprache zu lernen braucht man Sitzfleisch.

[Max.Em]

"Sitzfleisch" refers to bum as "sitting meat" but is figuratively used to describe endurance. It's never used in the literal sense, anyway.

[Jonkobu]

You can use it both, literally and figuratively, when referring to someone enduring a long meeting/sermon/lecture.
That is also where the word (or its use) comes from

[Max.Em]

Can you please give an example how you would use it in a literal sense or what the literal sense is for you? I just know it as "being able to sit somewhere for a long time".

[mainad]

"...für die Katz"

for naught (lit: for the cat)

Die ganze Arbeit war für die Katz! (all that work was for naught)