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Shallow Throat

Arabic translation: الغير كتوم: الذي لا يتحكم بلسانه، الثرثار


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English term or phrase:Shallow Throat
Arabic translation:الغير كتوم: الذي لا يتحكم بلسانه، الثرثار
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08:47 Oct 14, 2003
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Media / Multimedia / Media
English term or phrase: Shallow Throat
Now Democrats want to prosecute the leakers of "Intimigate " as traitorous miscreants, while the White House wants Shallow Throat outed and ousted as a fink. The Kafka-esque danger: If plumbers are successful, the government will wake up as a giant clam.

هل نترجمها ترجمةحرفية هنا؟
Amer al-Azem
Local time: 22:45
الغير كتوم
Explanation:
الذى لا يتحكم فى لسانه
الثرثار

What about the "at least six other Washington journalists" that Shallow Throat told The Post had been plantees of the July story? They are either too embarrassed to speak up or are figments of a whistle-blower's imagination.

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Shazly
Egypt
Local time: 21:45
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5 +4Strictly speaking, it would not be wrong to do so, butFuad Yahya
1 +4الغير كتوم
Shazly


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Strictly speaking, it would not be wrong to do so, but


Explanation:
I would probably not. The allusion to Bob Edward's Deep Throat in All the President's Men may be rather obscure for the average Arabic reader. I would probably translate it to

مصدر التسريب
المسرب
الفاضح
إلخ

Fuad Yahya
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 192

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alaa Abdulsalam: غير الكتومين-كثيري الكلام
59 mins

agree  Mueen Issa
3 hrs

agree  Mumtaz
4 hrs

agree  PrimaTrans
8 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +4
الغير كتوم


Explanation:
الذى لا يتحكم فى لسانه
الثرثار

What about the "at least six other Washington journalists" that Shallow Throat told The Post had been plantees of the July story? They are either too embarrassed to speak up or are figments of a whistle-blower's imagination.



Shazly
Egypt
Local time: 21:45
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alaa Abdulsalam: غير الكتوم
57 mins

agree  Mumtaz
3 hrs

agree  Wasfy Shahin
4 days

agree  AhmedAMS: غير الكتوم
7 days
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