"Getroffene Hunde bellen laut"

Any help for this... much appreciated!

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If the shoe fits wear it.

What's the context?

If the desription fits ???

I asked my wife. She doesn't know this phrase.
Only 260 google hits.
I found this site on the internet: http://www.redensarten-index.de/suche.php
It's also not known there.

I only know "Hunde die bellen beissen nicht" which translates as dogs that bark don't bite

m-c, that is more "His bark is worse than his bite".

I would go with the more direct "is the pope catholic" or "does a bear shit in the woods". It goes without saying.

Hit dogs are barking.

I think everyone had already understood that much. Unfortunately, a literal translation doesn't really help.

Maybe it was a German translation of the American "my dogs are barking" (i.e., my feet are sore/tired/hurt and I need to remove my shoes).

It would be interesting to know the context, as STB mentioned already; I think the expression might actually be the equivalent of "Once bitten, twice shy".

I'll stick with my answers.

I had never heard of this saying before. But the way I would understand it to mean:

You say something about something, the people who get offended over it usually get offended because it applies to them. If it doesn't there wouldn't be a need for them to get upset over it because you wouldn't have felt offended (or in German, angesprochen).

Latest example on TT: the topic by In Action.

But I wouldn't know a saying in English to say the same.

Seems to mean something akin to "Freudian slip."

Agree with sarabyrd - "if the shoe/cap fits, wear it". Or "touched a (raw) nerve".

Das gebrannte Kind scheut das Feuer.


Freudscher Versprecher

"Getroffene Hunde bellen laut" ... 258 Google entries

Like Mariposa, I'm a native speaker. And like Mariposa, I've never heard this saying before.

I have heard "Nur der Getroffene schreit" but not the doggy version.

Let sleeping dogs lie?

hi, i know this thread is quiet old but i happened to see it and i wanna try to explain this saying.

when u blame someone for something he did and this person vindicates shrill or reacts over-the-top (what probably means he is guilty), u can say "Getroffene Hunde bellen laut" to him. but i cant help u with a good translation.

The lady doth protest too much.

Perhaps preceded by a "methinks".

I've heard this expression, or something close. I think it means that those who deny an accusation the loudest are those most likely to be guilty as charged. In other words, if you confront someone and accuse them of having an affair, the louder they protest the more likely it is that the accusation is true. That's what I think it means. I'm not sure what the best English-language equivalent would be.

What Gen said, methinks.

Methinks Lady Macbeth protested a helluva lot when someone said something about that damn spot. Too lazy to google it.

Megots googles!

If I'm not mistaken this was an old Nazi slogan.
Hence, I wouldn't use it.

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sry u think its a nazi slogan, because it appears in some nazi texts? well, then i guess, u can relate almost every german saying with nazi-texts, because there are tons of it. i am german and i can say its a usual saying without any dark background.

My German colleagues agree that it's this.

I can't help think that there's another form of this in English, but all I can think of is "he who smelt it, dealt it".

He who denied it, supplied it.

He who told the rhyme, did the crime.

...and so on and so forth.

you can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be led ?