ler och långhalm
Swedish
Etymology
Literally meaning "clay and long straw", using the shortened "ler" for "lera" (clay). The term comes from older times' manufacture of bricks when clay and straw were worked together, which would then be tightly joined together and difficult to distinguish.
Idiom
- (idiomatic) The expression means that two things (people, etc) are strongly related.
References
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