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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

tener la vida hecha un yogurt

English translation:

don't know if I'm coming or going

Added to glossary by Lydia De Jorge
Feb 14, 2008 14:03
16 yrs ago
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Spanish term

tener la vida hecha un yogurt

Spanish to English Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
This phrase appears in an interview with a Cuban musician. There's not much context, but the sentence is:
Imagínate tú, mi madre desde chiquito me decía : “me tienes la vida hecha un yogurt”
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 don't know if I'm coming or going
4 to mess up one's life
3 you've turned my life upside down
3 you have muddled up my life
Change log

Feb 21, 2008 18:49: Lydia De Jorge changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/10294">Helen Provart's</a> old entry - "tener la vida hecha un yogurt"" to ""don't know if I'm coming or going""

Discussion

Lydia De Jorge Feb 14, 2008:
I hear this phrase from cubans in Miami all the time. It refers to complications in life where you're not sure where to start.

Proposed translations

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don't know if I'm coming or going

la vida hecha un yogurt means your life is complicated and confusing...very popular im Miami

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Note added at 7 days (2008-02-21 18:49:13 GMT) Post-grading
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Peer comment(s):
agree Victoria Porter-Burns :
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Gracias Victoria!
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42 mins

to mess up one's life

reading between the lines of the conversation, I'd guess that the musician is moaning that his mother was always complaining that after he had been born, her life was never the same again - ie, that his arrival really messed (or stronger!) up her life. The implication might also be that this messed him up psychologically....
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42 mins

you've turned my life upside down

meaning: life for the mother was so simple until the baby arrived; and her life will never be the same again until Baby grows up ...
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1 hr

you have muddled up my life

as in confusing, bringing problems, stress, irritate, making life difficult etc.
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