Time is money

[pne]

I was thinking the other day about how some expressions connected with money are also used with time, especially "pay a visit" and "spend some time".

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[squigglz.livejournal.com]

Well, time is very valuable :)

[pthalo]

how well do those expressions translate into German? Does German have other phrases that connect money and time? Neither of your examples translates into Serbian or Hungarian and I'm trying to think of Hungarian expressions that might tie the two together but I'm not coming up with anything.

[pne.livejournal.com]

how well do those expressions translate into German?

Not at all; in fact, if I use separate nouns for those at all (rather than verbs, as in "we visited them/went to visit them"), I'd use verbs I don't really use for anything else at all ("einen Besuch abstatten; Zeit verbringen").

Does German have other phrases that connect money and time?

Well, there's the saying "Zeit ist Geld" as in English ("time is money"), but other than that, I can't think of anything.

[pthalo]

Yeah, that's what I was running into in Hungarian as well. Az idő pénz, possibly (time is money).

the only thing I could think of was that the money you earn at your job is, the verb for earning it is is "keresni" which means "to search", "to look for". it always amused me that in English we earn our money and in Hungarian we just go looking for it (and possibly not find it)


I wonder what this says about English culture.

[pne.livejournal.com]

And in German you "deserve" it.

Hence leading to the joke, "How much do you (earn/deserve)?" - "Let's not talk about how much I deserve, but about how much I actually *get*!"

[pthalo]

hee, that's great. :)

In Hungarian, you always get this picture of someone hunting wildly for coins in the couch cushions.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Nothing at all, really.

[lovesasa.livejournal.com]

Time is Money. :)

[lexabear.livejournal.com]

Time can also be wasted or squandered, like money.