I remember in reading “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” some people had a description of Hitler as a “carpet eater”.
It seems when he got really mad he would chew the edges of the rugs. Ha!
“I remember in reading “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” some people had a description of Hitler as a “carpet eater”.
It seems when he got really mad he would chew the edges of the rugs. Ha!”
In German, the term is “Teppich fresser”. The term is not a complement, as German word for a human eating is “essen”, but the word for an animal eating is “fressen”.
Thus a ‘teppich fresser’ is a human who is so out of control they chew on the carpet like an animal.