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Arabic translation: أعمال غير منجزة

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English term or phrase:	Loose ends
Arabic translation:	أعمال غير منجزة
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02:17 Jun 19, 2010

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English term or phrase: Loose ends

Hi everyone. Any idea how to say "loose ends" in Arabic? The idiom means "unfinished details, incomplete business" and the specific context here is when thugs kill someone after obtaining information to avoid "loose ends".

Much obliged to any help on this.

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أعمال غير منجزة

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أعمال غير منجزة

WordReference English-Arabic Dictionary © 2010

Example:
I need to tie up some loose ends at work before I go on holiday.
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أعمال غير منجزة

Omar Harb

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زيل أو طرف

Ahmed Badawy

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لتفادي ما قد لا تحمد عقباه، لتفادي نتائج غير محسوبة

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loose ends زيل أو طرف

Explanation:
يقال في عرف المجرمين وممتهني الإجرام إنه لم يزل بعض أطراف أو زيول (هكذا بالعامية ) للجريمة
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loose ends

أعمال غير منجزة

Omar Harb
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loose ends لتفادي ما قد لا تحمد عقباه، لتفادي نتائج غير محسوبة

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when thugs kill someone after extracting information, that's because they don't want him to give this information to anyone else. Should they keep him alive, they risk being identified and persecuted, or they risk the same information going to their adversaries, and this, I think, is what they don't want to happen. So they are trying to avoid the undesired aftermath of not killing the man, which could be translated into Arabic to: لتفادي ما قد لا تحمد عقباه، لتفادي نتائج غير محسوبة
especially that one of the meaning of loose end is: Confusion
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/loose-...

mohdysh
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