spuit elf geeft ook modder

== Dutch == === Alternative forms === spuit elf geeft modder === Etymology === Literally, “hose eleven gives mud, too”. The origin of the phrase is unclear; hypotheses include: from the concept of 11 as a crazy or incomplete number, not quite a dozen (cf. gekkengetal); from an old firefighting figure of speech: by the time the eleventh fire hose arrives at the scene of a fire, the canal from which the fire brigade was drawing water may have only mud remaining. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /spœy̯t ˈɛlf xeːft ˈoːk ˈmɔdər/ === Phrase === spuit elf geeft ook modder (Netherlands, derogatory) Indicating that a nobody (an irrelevant person) has given a belated, often irrelevant or ignorant, comment. ==== Related terms ==== spuit elf === Further reading === “Spuit elf geeft (ook nog) modder”, in taaladvies.net‎[1] (in Dutch), 2004 “Spuit elf geeft ook modder”, in Onze Taal‎[2] (in Dutch), 2016, archived from the original on 26 March 2022