{"id":1339,"date":"2025-07-17T09:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/?post_type=vraag&#038;p=1339"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:37:25","slug":"waarom-zeggen-mensen-ik-heb-zaagsel-in-mijn-hoofd-als-ze-iets-doms-doen","status":"publish","type":"vraag","link":"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/vraag\/waarom-zeggen-mensen-ik-heb-zaagsel-in-mijn-hoofd-als-ze-iets-doms-doen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do Dutch people say &#8220;I have sawdust in my head&#8221; when they do something stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In English, <a href=\"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/vraag\/wat-is-er-al-bekend-over-long-covid-en-de-hersenen\/\">the dull feeling (brain fog) experienced by some patients with long-term COVID<\/a> is sometimes referred to as &#8220;a head full of cotton wool&#8221;. However, this doesn&#8217;t have the same origin, nor the same meaning. Do you know similar expressions in other languages? Let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In English, the dull feeling (brain fog) experienced by some patients with long-term COVID is sometimes referred to as &#8220;a head full of cotton wool&#8221;. However, this doesn&#8217;t have the same origin, nor the same meaning. Do you know similar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/vraag\/waarom-zeggen-mensen-ik-heb-zaagsel-in-mijn-hoofd-als-ze-iets-doms-doen\/\"><em>Lees verder<span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"class_list":["post-1339","vraag","type-vraag","status-publish","hentry","category-language-communication"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vraag\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vraag"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vraag"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vraag\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vraag\/1339\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainhelpdesk.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}