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Onze Lieve Heer heeft rare kostgangers

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Etymology

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Literally, our beloved Lord has strange lodgers, where lodgers refers to humans (being dwellers on God's Earth, as viewed from a religious perspective).

Proverb

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Onze Lieve Heer heeft rare kostgangers

  1. Some people are surprisingly strange and eccentric; more generally: people are weird.
    Synonym: Onze Lieve Heer heeft vreemde kostgangers
    Ik zag laatst een man naakt schaatsen. Onze Lieve Heer heeft rare kostgangers.I recently saw a naked man ice-skating. People are weird.