Lesson 4 - Dutch Expressions | 250 Dutch Proverbs

Verb. de kat uit de boom kijken. (intransitive) to wait and see; to not jump right into a situation, but observe and assess first.

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They're different to idioms such as "de kat uit de boom kijken" which if you translate, you can infer the meaning. Does anyone know of a ...

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Literal translation: "Looking the cat out of the tree". Meaning: Rather than jumping into a situation, one waits and sees how things work out.

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... Meaning: To wait and see how things develop before taking action. Example: Dutch: Hij zei nog niets in de vergadering, hij zat eerst de kat ...

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De kat uit de boom kijken. Idiom: To see which way the wind blows. Literally: Watching the cat [until it comes] out of the tree ...

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De kat uit de boom kijken. Translation: To watch the cat out of the tree. Meaning: To wait and see before taking action. This is a useful idiom ...

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Literally: "watching the cat out of the tree". It basically means staying in the background, not drawing too much attention to yourself and just ...

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see which way the cat jumps [prov.] de kat uit de boom kijken. Context sentences. Dutch English Contextual examples of "de kat uit de boom kijken ...

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We have this saying in Dutch, de kat uit de boom kijken. It means, literally translated, looking the cat out of the tree.

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