grædemur

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Danish

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Etymology

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After Grædemuren (the Wailing Wall).

Noun

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grædemur

  1. something that one aims complaints in the direction of
    • 2014, Karin Fossum, translated by Poul Bratbjerg Hansen, Carmen Zita og døden, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
      Men i modsætning til dig har jeg i hvert fald et sted at gå hen med min sorg. Andre driver om uden mål og med, det ville jeg ikke have orket. Jeg har brug for en grædemur.
      But unlike you [an atheist], I at least have somewhere to go with my sorrow. Others drift around without purpose or destination, I wouldn't have been able to bear it. I need a Wailing Wall.
    • 1997, Jens Andersen, Til døden os skiller: et portræt af Tove Ditlevsen:
      Ditlevsen gik direkte ind i rollen som Miss Lonely Hearts, men var – viste det sig snart – noget andet og mere end en grædemur. Hun mestrede den svære kunst at slutte sig naturligt til den spørgendes mentalitet, forudsætninger og erfaringsområde.
      Ditlevsen went right into her role as Miss Lonely Hearts, but was -- it soon turned out -- something else and more than a Wailing Wall. She mastered the difficult art of naturally tuning in to the asker's mentality, preconditions, and area of experience.