trying to get someone to buy something he doesn't need

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Title:	trying to get someone to buy something he doesn't need
Answer:	einem Eskimo einen Kühlschrank verkaufen

Hints:	1. someone living in the arktis 2. something an eskimo doesn't need.

Explanation:	pretty easily explained. Eskimos are living, where it is cold so they don't need a refrigerator.
German > Popular Expressions > Business / Commerce

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Average Rating		4.7
# of votes		13
# of Garbage Votes		0
# of Garbage Votes by native speakers		0

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Maria

Rating: 4

April 20, 2015

Borhane

Rating: 5

April 1, 2014

That's a good one, thank you.

Interesting to see we also use the desert for that expression in french. Not the icy frozen one, but rather the sweltering scorchering one.
Instead of "einem Eskimo einen Kühlschrank verkaufen", in French we say "Vendre du sable dans le désert"

Irina I.

Rating: 5

July 18, 2013

Instead of "einem Eskimo einen Kühlschrank verkaufen", in Romanian we say "a vinde castraveţi grădinarului"

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