Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
if they were beaten with a ten foot stick
Portuguese translation:
mesmo que batessem com um porrete na cabeça deles
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Humberto Ribas
Oct 8, 2009 21:39
14 yrs ago
English term
if they were beaten with a ten foot stick
English to Portuguese
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
I snorted, ignoring his rant. “Emmett, I’m pretty sure they know what they’re doing.”
He shook his head. “Please - they wouldn’t know what they were doing if they were beaten with a ten foot stick.”
He shook his head. “Please - they wouldn’t know what they were doing if they were beaten with a ten foot stick.”
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Oct 11, 2009 17:01: Humberto Ribas Created KOG entry
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Humberto Ribas
Brazil
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mesmo que batessem com um porrete na cabeça deles
they wouldn’t know what they were doing if they were beaten with a ten foot stick
eles não saberiam o que estavam fazendo, mesmo que batessem com um porrete na cabeça deles.
eles não saberiam o que estavam fazendo, mesmo que batessem com um porrete na cabeça deles.
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Comment: "Obrigada Humberto. A expressão se encaixou bem no sentido do texto."
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Fausto Machado Tiemann
Brazil
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se tivessem levado uma surra (com vara)/umas pauladas/sido enxotados (a pau)
Acredito que a réplica é no sentido que, se eles tivessem levado uma surra (a pauladas), a outra não diria que eles sabiam o que estavam fazendo.
Literalmente, enxotados com um pau/vara de 3 metros.
Literalmente, enxotados com um pau/vara de 3 metros.
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Adriana Maciel
Brazil
Brazil
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104
nem com uma surra
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