"Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen" meaning in German

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, \"peace, joy, pancakes\". The origin of the phrase is uncertain; it is attested in print at least since 1959, when the critic Carl Andrießen wrote, “Am Schluß, wie sichs gehört, Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen und Beifall” (‘At the end, as is proper, peace, joy, pancakes, and applause’).",
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      },
      "expansion": "Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Frie‧de"
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "We didn’t have to pretend everything was A-okay!",
          "ref": "2001, Nico Lauser, Wolf T. Mannstolz, Die Unbelehrbaren, BoD – Books on Demand, page 95",
          "text": "Wir mussten nicht auf Friede-Freude-Eierkuchen machen!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Stefan Frädrich, Günter, der innere Schweinehund, wird Chef: Ein tierisches Führungsbuch, GABAL Verlag GmbH, page 193",
          "text": "Und schon geht Günter wieder zur Tagesordnung über – schließlich läuft die Firma jetzt. Alles ist Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen. Der Erfolg kommt scheinbar wie von selbst, schön regelmäßig und jedes Jahr zur gleichen Saison.\nAnd Günter is already settling into the daily routine—after all, the company is up and running now. Everything’s A-okay. Success seems to be coming on its own, at regular intervals and at the same time every year.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Yves Hänggi, Familienstress – so bleibe ich gelassen!: Strategien zur Bewältigung von Stress in der Familie, BoD – Books on Demand, page 42",
          "roman": "Of course family life doesn’t mean everything’s A-okay.",
          "text": "Familienleben bedeutet natürlich nicht nur Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A-okay (often with an implication that problems are being ignored or glossed over)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Friede,_Freude,_Eierkuchen-de-phrase-NWEdjWyF",
      "links": [
        [
          "A-okay",
          "A-okay"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Gustav von Wangenheim",
        "de:Carl Andrießen",
        "de:Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfʁiːdə ˈfʁɔʏ̯də ˈʔaɪ̯ɐˌkuːxən]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-xŋ̩]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, \"peace, joy, pancakes\". The origin of the phrase is uncertain; it is attested in print at least since 1959, when the critic Carl Andrießen wrote, “Am Schluß, wie sichs gehört, Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen und Beifall” (‘At the end, as is proper, peace, joy, pancakes, and applause’).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "de",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Frie‧de"
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "German lemmas",
        "German multiword terms",
        "German phrases",
        "German terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "German terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "We didn’t have to pretend everything was A-okay!",
          "ref": "2001, Nico Lauser, Wolf T. Mannstolz, Die Unbelehrbaren, BoD – Books on Demand, page 95",
          "text": "Wir mussten nicht auf Friede-Freude-Eierkuchen machen!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Stefan Frädrich, Günter, der innere Schweinehund, wird Chef: Ein tierisches Führungsbuch, GABAL Verlag GmbH, page 193",
          "text": "Und schon geht Günter wieder zur Tagesordnung über – schließlich läuft die Firma jetzt. Alles ist Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen. Der Erfolg kommt scheinbar wie von selbst, schön regelmäßig und jedes Jahr zur gleichen Saison.\nAnd Günter is already settling into the daily routine—after all, the company is up and running now. Everything’s A-okay. Success seems to be coming on its own, at regular intervals and at the same time every year.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Yves Hänggi, Familienstress – so bleibe ich gelassen!: Strategien zur Bewältigung von Stress in der Familie, BoD – Books on Demand, page 42",
          "roman": "Of course family life doesn’t mean everything’s A-okay.",
          "text": "Familienleben bedeutet natürlich nicht nur Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A-okay (often with an implication that problems are being ignored or glossed over)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "A-okay",
          "A-okay"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Gustav von Wangenheim",
        "de:Carl Andrießen",
        "de:Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfʁiːdə ˈfʁɔʏ̯də ˈʔaɪ̯ɐˌkuːxən]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-xŋ̩]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen"
}