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This amusing Dutch expression is used for those terrible situations when just everything seems to be going wrong. It can also be used when one is in serious trouble.
A mountain made of beets is guaranteed to be extremely slippery. To try and climb one would be a very unpleasant exercise in futility indeed.
Linguists think that this quirky expression comes from a time when farmers with beet carts had to cross bridges or mountains.
Whenever a farmer crossed to the other side, a few beets would inevitably fall off their cart. The bridge would gradually become slick with crushed beets.
As a result, if you weren’t careful, you would slip; or even worse, your beet cart could entirely slide off the bridge.
