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more prayerful than beady

English translation: praing that things will go right for them...


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07:03 Apr 3, 2010
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Government / Politics
English term or phrase: more prayerful than beady
It is used as a title.
oraki
Local time: 05:36
English translation:praing that things will go right for them...
Explanation:
I don't think this is a recognized expression, I think the author made it up as his headline for the article.
...rather than just going through the motions of being religious by telling beads
(Do Muslims do that? I thought it was a Roman Catholic thing)

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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-04-03 09:24:29 GMT)
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"Praying", of course, not praing
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Jack Doughty
Local time: 02:06
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Summary of answers provided
2 +4praing that things will go right for them...
Jack Doughty
4more beseeching (with despair written on his face) than suspicious
Alexandra Taggart


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49 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +4
praing that things will go right for them...


Explanation:
I don't think this is a recognized expression, I think the author made it up as his headline for the article.
...rather than just going through the motions of being religious by telling beads
(Do Muslims do that? I thought it was a Roman Catholic thing)

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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-04-03 09:24:29 GMT)
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"Praying", of course, not praing

Jack Doughty
Local time: 02:06
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agree  eLena Mishenkova: I think, you put it right. Their prays are sincere and can't be simulated as bead-counting does. And, yes, Muslims do that; their beads have 108 pieces - each for one pray - for the whole day.
28 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  Armorel Young: If you get to look at the actual article you see that this is actually the caption to a photo that shows a Muslim praying with a string of prayer beads draped over his fingers http://www.docstoc.com/docs/11811944/The_Economist_September...
6 hrs
  -> Thank you. But that link takes me to a different article.
agree  Stephanie Ezrol
15 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Mohamed Ghazal: They do, and eLena, their rosaries have 99 beads each (that represent the names of God, not 108)
12 days
  -> Thank you.
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1 day15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
more beseeching (with despair written on his face) than suspicious


Explanation:
I think your question word is "beady". It's a play-word. A subha (muslim rosary, it has 99 beads) is a helpful thing not in praying only, but in the moments of nervousness as well."Beady eyes" - are the eyes which watch something (a progression of events in this particular case) carefully and suspiciously.Both, "prayerful" and "beady", most likely, are about his facial expressions.The President, probably, smelt something fishy and its close proximity(danger/neusance) made him feeling very uncomfortable.

Alexandra Taggart
Russian Federation
Local time: 05:06
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
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