The story
Medieval towns shut their gates at nightfall, and whoever was still outside spent the night beyond the walls. German kept the rush to get in before the gate closed and moved it to marriage and children. English has the midlife crisis.
Torschlusspanik
TOR-shlooss-pah-nik[ˈtoːɐ̯ʃlʊsˌpaːnɪk]
Pronunciation: Jberkel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commonsthe fear that time is running out to do what you meant to do
Closest in English: urgency, desperation, midlife-crisis. None of them covers it.
How it went in the game
Contains the answers. If you want to play the word yourself first, leave this closed.
- Which language is it from?German
- When does it tend to strike?Around a fortieth birthday
- Where would you hear it?A friend's list of things to do by forty
- What does it mean?Fear that life's chances are closing
How it went
Round two, moment, was where most points went.
More German words
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