The Slipperbeaten German, by Kevin Barrett
The German word for “henpecked husband” is Der Pantoffelheld, which literally means “slipper hero.” Such a man is living “under his wife’s slipper.” It apparently derives from the older German idiom unter dem Pantoffel stehen (“to stand under the slipper”), i.e. “to be under someone’s thumb.” When Germans talk about Der Pantoffelheld they don’t mean…
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