shooting up down and every which way

Portuguese translation: atirar para todos os lados

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English term or phrase:shooting up down and every which way
Portuguese translation:atirar para todos os lados
Entered by: Stephania Matousek (X)

14:25 Jul 5, 2015
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: shooting up down and every which way
Caros colegas, mais uma vez vou pedir a ajuda de vocês!

Tenho o seguinte trecho:

"A year after Polly’s birth [...] Douglas and Jane’s house was filled with their closest friends and family for a form of Humanist Christening, in which [their friends] rather than pledging to turn away from sin for their god-daughter, each signed an expertly drawn-up contract promising to educate and care for their charge in their own inimitable ways – Bywater’s oath was ‘To tutor the Child in the ways of boozing, whoring, falling down drunk, shooting up down and every which way and playing the piano like unto an angel.’"

Então, "shoot up" pode significar várias coisas, dentre elas:

1. to grow in size, or increase in number or level, very quickly
2. to put illegal drugs into your blood using a special needle

Ambas as acepções cabem aqui, pois estamos falando de uma criança que vai crescer, mas, ao mesmo tempo, há a conotação cômica do padrinho ensinando coisa errada (bebedeira, putaria, etc).

Porém, meu problema também é com o final da expressão: "down and every which way"...
Stephania Matousek (X)
France
Local time: 09:42
atirando para todos os lados
Explanation:
Sugestão
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 04:42
Grading comment
Muito obrigada! :)
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1atirando para todos os lados
Mario Freitas
4 +1injetar em todo lado e mais um
Nick Taylor
4se picando (de tudo quanto é jeito)
airmailrpl
3(ensinar) a disparar para todos os lados
Ana Vozone


Discussion entries: 15





  

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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
atirando para todos os lados


Explanation:
Sugestão

Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 04:42
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32
Grading comment
Muito obrigada! :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Danik 2014
1 hr
  -> Obrigado, Dani!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
se picando (de tudo quanto é jeito)


Explanation:
shooting up down and every which way =>
se picando (de tudo quanto é jeito)

5. Se picar
Por Vana Comissoli (RS) em 06-12-2009

Usar cocaína injetável

Maurício, na fissura, não observou nada à sua volta, se picou no meio da balada.
http://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/se picar/

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 04:42
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 78
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
(ensinar) a disparar para todos os lados


Explanation:
Na linha da minha discussão/sugestão anterior, e também respeitando o sentido da frase: "teaching in the ways of boozing, falling down drunk". Penso que deve ser utilizado o infinitivo.

Ana Vozone
Local time: 08:42
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
injetar em todo lado e mais um


Explanation:
injetar em todo lado e mais um

Nick Taylor
Local time: 08:42
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 31

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Diana Coada (X)
13 hrs
  -> Thanks Diana
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