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English: ... a few sherbets in...

French translation: quelques pintes de bières



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English term or phrase:... a few sherbets in...
French translation:quelques pintes de bières
Entered by:Dominique Sempere
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English term or phrase: ... a few sherbets in...
Contexte de la phrase :
Des jeunes branchés sont avec leurs copains dans un de ces derniers clubs à la mode où l'apparence a tant d'importance,
et tout le monde regarde tout le monde.
"We are in some banging club with our mates, a few sherbets in, feeling pretty good about our own look."
Que signifie exactement "sherbet" ici ? J'avoue ne connaître que le sens premier du mot, à savoir un sorbet... S'agit-il d'alcool, de drogue par hasard ?
Merci à celles et ceux qui sauront m'aider !
laurence rosenfeld
France
Clarification request(s) and response
Gabrielle Allemand-Mostefaï: 12:35pm Jul 15, 2006: Une petite recherche [sherbet slang] sur Google devrait suffire à vous éclairer...
monxmood: 12:50pm Jul 15, 2006: derived from Arabic sharaba=drink

quelques pintes de bières
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Sherbet_-_Slang/id/21244...
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Dominique Sempere
France
Note from asker to answerer
Merci pour l'idée. Je n'y avais même pas pensé !
Laurence
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4 +2quelques pintes de bières
Dominique Sempere
3Juste pour l'information...
Tony M


  

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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
quelques pintes de bières

Explanation:
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Sherbet_-_Slang/id/21244...

Dominique Sempere
France
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 28
Note from asker to answerer
Merci pour l'idée. Je n'y avais même pas pensé !
Laurence

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Tony M: Dans l'ancien Empire en Inde, un 'sherbet' était une boisson, je présume alcoölisée
5 mins

agree monxmood: yes, "in" means they have already consumed the "sherbets"
7 mins
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Juste pour l'information...

Explanation:
Oxford English Dictionary:

"1 A cooling drink made of sweetened and diluted fruit juice, drunk esp. in Arab countries. Now also, an effervescing drink made of sherbet powder (see sense 2 below).

2 A flavoured sweet powder containing bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, etc., eaten as a confection or used to make an effervescing drink. Also more fully sherbet powder.

3 a A water-ice. N. Amer.

3b (A glass of) alcoholic liquor, esp. (spec. in Austral.) beer. slang. "

Tony M
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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