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General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | Danish term or phrase: Der skal være højt til loftet | Nordjyllandslejren hylder tanken om "frihed under ansvar", og det gælder både for børn og voksne. Vi er jo på sommerferie, så der skal være højt til loftet - og gerne meget højt. Her skal være plads til spontane indfald, som gør lejren sjovere.
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| | room for your own ideas | Explanation:
Sometimes this means literally space to move around in, but here it is obviously more metaphorical as well.
scope for your own ideas, freedom of choice.
Sometimes it means open minded, and Gyldendal suggests ´room for differences of opinion´, but that is probably not relevant here.
On a holiday it probably means being able to ´do your own things´ as well as joining in group activities.
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19 mins confidence:   room for your own ideas
Explanation:
Sometimes this means literally space to move around in, but here it is obviously more metaphorical as well.
scope for your own ideas, freedom of choice.
Sometimes it means open minded, and Gyldendal suggests ´room for differences of opinion´, but that is probably not relevant here.
On a holiday it probably means being able to ´do your own things´ as well as joining in group activities.
| | | Grading comment | I think that this option fits best in the context. THANKS TO ALL of you!! |
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25 mins confidence: There should be room for adventure
Explanation:
I would suggest an interpretation in the context here rather than the dictionary translation.
This is a clever double use of the idiom/metaphor 'højt til loftet', which is also used to refer to the freedom of being out in the open, so that 'loftet' can also mean the sky, as in 'being out and about with nothing to clutter the view to the open sky'.
Typically used about the sense of being away from the city with its overshadowing buildings, shut off from nature.
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