Terms and phrases, not beeing common in old Germany

[Trenchfriend]

Shotgun a beer

I recently learned the term from Youtube.
People in Germany still do that, but I never heared someone here giving the thing a name, while doing.

I bet, we could find dozens of other things, old Germany is still doing, but has no term for it!

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

^^^^describe a few things old Germany is still doing and we’ll put a phrase on it for you.

 

[Trenchfriend]

If we finish the day and go to bed, we just do.

We don't hit the sack.

 

[Turnip]

Shotgun a beer

I recently learned the term from Youtube.
People in Germany still do that, but I never heared someone here giving the thing a name, while doing.
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Ummm, Dosenschießen (Can shooting) or Dosenstechen are the German terms for that, even if you might not have heard them yet.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Dosenschießen (Can shooting) or Dosenstechen

Yeah, never heared that before, not even on TV!

 

[Turnip]

If we finish the day and go to bed, we just do.

We don't hit the sack.

We hit the sack here as well, it just has an other / a wider connotation here, meaning to stop something, leave something or withdraw from something.

Hitting the sack in the sense of going to sleep would be called „sich hinhauen“, „sich auf’s Ohr hauen“… in German.

 

[Zombie_61]

If we finish the day and go to bed, we just do.

We don't hit the sack.

Historically, mattresses were made from cloth sacks stuffed with hay, so "hit the sack" and "hit the hay" are both slang versions of saying you're going to bed.

 

[Turnip]

In Northern Germany the „mattresses“ had often been stuffed with sea weed for the less wealthy or horse hair for those with a better income.
So transferred to English it would be hit the weed or hit the nag then.