over het idioom 'te veel monden'

by **gustaaf kusno** » August 10th, 2011, 5:12 am

Is saying 'te veel monden' meaning 'praatgraag' (talkative in English) correct in Dutch? This expression is commonly used by the Dutch-speaking senior citizens in Indonesia. Or is it merely an idiom explicitly used in former Dutch colony Indonesia? Heel erg bedankt.

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by **andreengels** » August 10th, 2011, 8:25 am

gustaaf kusno wrote:Is saying 'te veel monden' meaning 'praatgraag' (talkative in English) correct in Dutch? This expression is commonly used by the Dutch-speaking senior citizens in Indonesia. Or is it merely an idiom explicitly used in former Dutch colony Indonesia? Heel erg bedankt.

No, I have not met this idiom in Dutch. I find it a strange image too - I'd more expect something like "een te grote mond" (except that a 'grote mond' just like the English 'big mouth' already means impertinence). Checking in Google, I find "te veel monden" being used in two meanings: "te veel monden te voeden" (too many mouths to feed) and "met te veel monden spreken" (either too many people speaking for one entity, or one person or entity saying too many different, conflicting things about the same subject)

by **gustaaf kusno** » August 22nd, 2011, 3:30 pm

thanks a lot for the information. It's amazing to know that there are some 'invented' Dutch idioms known only to senior Indonesian citizens.