Danish translation: smøge ærmene op, spytte i næverne, tage fat, h ale op i sokkerne
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English term or phrase:
Pull your socks up!
Danish translation:
smøge ærmene op, spytte i næverne, tage fat, h ale op i sokkerne
The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2009-11-30 10:54:29 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
English to Danish translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Telecom(munications) / Vaskemaskiner
English term or phrase:Pull your socks up!
I believe washing machines eat socks. Why is it otherwise that I have about 100 single socks in my drawer?
Can anyone describe why it is important to pull our socks up?
Explanation: Eksempler fra Gyldendals Store Røde.
Enlige strømper må være et globalt problem - i hvert fald i egne, hvor man går med strømper. I forhold til en oversættelse om vaskemaskiner, dur ordbogens eksempler nok ikkke. Men man kan også hale op i sokkerne, som der står i den gamle sang, Spurven sidder stum bag kvist.
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Det er Ole sad på en knold og sang :), Spurven sidder stum bag kvist er den med Lul lul rokken går ;)
en hundred procent positiv situation; som en mor der siger til sit barn "pull your socks up and get ouf bed" we are in a hurry. Ikke destomindre laeser jeg ogsaa din oversaettelse "fald ned paa jorden" positivt som "tag det roligt, alt ender godt/der er ikke noget at vaere urolig for"! Mvh Lisbeth
alt hvad jeg kan sige er, at jeg tror paa, at vaskemaskiner virkelig spiser sokker. Jeg kan ikke finde anden forklaring paa stakken af enlige sokker i min vasketoejskurv :-)
Explanation: This I know only too well! The English school system (also in NZ where I grew up) requires a school uniform. For the boys this has always meant long knee-length socks when wearing short trousers (all year long, in many cases). We didn't think it was "cool" to have them up, so we wore them pushed down. But that was against the rules. I more than once received evidence to the fact on my backside (now THAT will horrify my Scandiavian colleagues)!!
smøge ærmene op, spytte i næverne, tage fat, h ale op i sokkerne
Explanation: Eksempler fra Gyldendals Store Røde.
Enlige strømper må være et globalt problem - i hvert fald i egne, hvor man går med strømper. I forhold til en oversættelse om vaskemaskiner, dur ordbogens eksempler nok ikkke. Men man kan også hale op i sokkerne, som der står i den gamle sang, Spurven sidder stum bag kvist.
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Det er Ole sad på en knold og sang :), Spurven sidder stum bag kvist er den med Lul lul rokken går ;)
Poul Moller Local time: 04:04 Native speaker of: Danish PRO pts in category: 12
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Ja, den med spurven forstaar jeg :-) tak for hjaelpen - det haster lidt! Mvh Lisbeth
Explanation: A term used to tell someone to get down because bullets are going to be fired in their general direction in the immediate future. The general idea behind wording the phrase this way is to let your friend know what is about to happen whilest leaving your helpless, soon to be, victims in the dark.
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Hvad med lidt amerikansk slang!
Filmen "Snatch"er vaerd at se. Happy Thanksgiving!
Inga kalbak United States Local time: 22:04 Native speaker of: Danish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Nej Inga, jeg ved med overbevisning, at der ikke er tale om en negativ fortolkning. Jeg har skrevet lidt mere under post comment, da jeg loeber toer for plads her.
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