What Germans say when they don't get it

You can't see the big picture. You're disoriented, drawing a mental blank. You just don't get it!

The German language has quirky idiomatic expressions to express just that.

Some of the colloquial phrases are direct depiction of someone who is clueless. "Auf dem Slauch stehen," which translates as "standing on the hose," is one of them. There's not much water that runs through a garden hose if someone is standing on it, and blocking it. 

Check the above picture gallery for more "I have no idea what's going on" idioms. 

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