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Particular_Run_8930 at 2024-03-20 15:27:45+00:00 ID:
kvqtrw6I have never heard it in use, but according to ordnet.dk there is an expression of “going to Wandsbek”, but it is used for “arguments that does not hold true on closer inspection”.
https://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?subentry_id=59012337&def_id=21096840&query=na?
XenonXcraft at 2024-03-20 19:21:10+00:00 ID:
kvs0uabThe deeper explanations are pretty funny - and quite different from what OP has read:
Probably used in Hamburg as an expression because something doesn't apply there, but possibly in the small town of Wandsbeck outside Hamburg, which was a haunt for all kinds of dishonest people, bankrupt gamblers etc.
Sometimes used with a view to the fact that Wandsbeck was one of the three places in the Danish monarchy where the lottery was drawn, and that a number for the draw that did not apply to the draw in Kbh., and a note drawn in W. did not was honored in Kbh.
https://ordnet.dk/ods/ordbog?query=Wandsbeck