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Revision as of 12:03, 19 July 2005 by 82.92.150.74 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Komkommertijd is a Dutch word, literally meaning "cucumber time". It is in reference to the lull of news stories that occur during the summer vacation period - that the news in the papers are as thin and watery as a cucumber.
There are variants of this concept in other languages, such as Norwegian agurktid and German zurebommentijd.
Other languages have similiar terms for the sparse summer period: French has the dull season la morte-saison, English has the silly season and big gooseberry time, Swedish has the news drought nyhetstorka, and German has the summer hole Sommerloch.
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