"Why was the Knippel-soup allowed to spoil Apollonie's Sunday peace ?" she cried out.
"Where have you heard that, Maezli ?" the mother said, quite frightened.
She already saw the moment before her when Maezli would tell the district attorney's wife that new appellation.

"You must never use that expression any more, Maezli.

You see, nobody would be able to know what you mean.

Kurt invented it apparently when Apollonie spoke about having so much to swallow.

He should not have said it.