>"Mach es dir selber" literally means "do it yourself". That would be
>a sharp enough rebuke, as a witch's rebuttal of a muggle's plan to
>waste witch lives, but in German/Karlslandic it has an added
>dimension, because in that language it's also a minced profanity of a
>high order. It is so commonly assumed to be a way of saying "go fuck
>yourself" without actually using foul language that, culturally, it
>has essentially become foul language.
>
>You really don't want to get on the wrong side of Minna, is what I'm
>saying. :)

Halfway between 'do it yourself' and 'go do yourself'.

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