Butter bei die Fische

Etymology
lit. 'butter with the fish' (plural). Compare 🇨🇬 (with a similar, but not entirely identical meaning).

The idiom is grammatically peculiar because it uses the case (die Fische) with the preposition bei, which is incorrect by contemporary standard rules. The phrase is from a source. In many High and Low German dialects the word for by can express location (with ) but also movement (with ). Compare other German prepositions varying between dative and accusative in the same way, e.g., , etc.

Noun

 * 1)  talking turkey, cutting to the chase request for honesty, frankness, and straightforwardness
 * 2)  rolling up one's sleeves, getting down to brass tacks request for honest effort, extra effort, all or nothing
 * 1)  rolling up one's sleeves, getting down to brass tacks request for honest effort, extra effort, all or nothing