May 7, 2007 19:31
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Portuguese term
antonio Carlos
nadar nadar e morrer na praia
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Meu irmão estava jogando damas comigo e quase qanhou, ao terminar ele soltou essa :
_nadei ,nadei e morri na praia.
_nadei ,nadei e morri na praia.
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tired it hard, in the end didn´t get it
"morrer na praia" significa não conseguir alguma coisa, perder um jogo, ficar para trás, com o início: nadei, nadei...significa: criei expextativa, lutei por isso, no fim perdi;
Example sentence:
Gostei de uma moça, ela criou expextativa, mas ela tem outro, morri na praia.
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Katarina Peters
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ending up losing for trying too hard
just another way of expressing it
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Henrique Serra
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Obrigada, Henrique!
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Zynarra Pereira (X)
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Obrigada, Zynarra!
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tonnycharles
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Thank you, tonnycharles!
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Henrique Magalhaes
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swimming & swimming and dying in the beach
I don´t see any reason for not translating literally...it is has an interesting figurative sense.
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airmailrpl
: dying on the beach
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Paul Dixon
: This form is never used, at least in British English. This is an idiomatic expression and as such should be translated into its equivalent (see my answer)
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tonnycharles
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Paul Dixon
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