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Meaning of som katten om den varme grød | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C2

Definitions

reluctantly

Examples

“Samtidig skal ledere opfordre deres egne underordnede til at udtrykke deres uforbeholdne mening, skabe bølgegang efter behov og stoppe med at gå som katten om den varme grød med vigtige problemer.”

Meanwhile, leaders must encourage their own subordinates to express their unreserved opinion, make waves if necessary and to stop walking like the cat around the hot porridge when it comes to important problems.

“Osvold var ligesom fin på den, han gik som katten om den varme grød, pakkede tingene ind i vat.”

Osvold was sort of refined, he went like that cat around the hot porridge, wrapped things into cotton.

“DET UDVALG, LO-kongressen i 1952 nedsatte til at beskæftige sig med fagbevægelsens struktur, løb i alt væsentligt uden om emnet som katten om den varme grød.”

The committee that the LO congress formed in 1952 to concern itself with the structure of the labour movement ran, in all essential matters, around the topic like the cat around the hot porridge.

“Indtil nu er jeg som katten om den varme grød veget uden om et vigtigt spørgsmål: ...”

Until now, I have, like the cat around the hot porridge, avoided an important question: ...

“I stedet synes der i debatten om indvandrerundervisningen at være en tendens til at gå uden om sprogets form som katten om den varme grød.”

Instead, there seems to be, in the debate on the education of immigrants, a tendency to avoid the shape of language [i.e. morphology] as the cat around the hot porridge.

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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