Swiss manufacturers reckon with the possibility of a contractless state with Germany. The Swiss public opinion is afraid that such a contractless state will lead to intolerable interferences of German authorities with Swiss economic life.

weighed under by worry

Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.

“Kool retfa the posh” he’d call to Mum, “I’m going to ekat the yenom to the kaynab” Somewhere Dad had learnt Backslang and this was the preferred medium of communication between him and Mum when there were customers in the shop. What he had just said was, “Look after the shop, I’m taking the money to the bank”