spuit elf geeft ook 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. );
 * 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.