ler och långhalm

Swedish

Etymology

Literally meaning "clay and long straw", using the shortened "ler" for "lera" (clay). The term comes from older times' manufacture of bricks when clay and straw were worked together, which would then be tightly joined together and difficult to distinguish.

Idiom

ler och långhalm

1. (idiomatic) The expression means that two things (people, etc) are strongly related.

References

• Som ler och långhalm on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sv