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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Cornelius Quabeck | | English term or phrase: to hold at bay | Transgressions of this sort are pardonable and they are constructive. The trick, as Quabeck sees, is to **hold that pardon at bay**, to keep things awkward.
Ich finde nur *keep .. at bay* = in Schach halten, was hier durchaus auch Sinn ergeben würde. Was sagt ihr? |
|  Gisela GermannKudoZ activityQuestions: 814 ( 1 open) ( 26 without valid answers) ( 32 closed without grading) Answers: 84
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| | zurückhalten | Explanation:
im Sinne von: "nicht" anbieten
auch:
verweigern
nicht zulassen
unerreichbar belassen
im Sinne von jc:
unerreichbar (nicht erreichbar) (er)scheinen lassen
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Bernhard Sulzer
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Local time: 11:49
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3 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 | hold ... at bay nicht herausrücken
Explanation:
Might fit in this context. I understand it to mean that you do not give the pardon, but you do not destroy all hope of receiving it, either.
|  jccantrell
Local time: 08:49
Native speaker of:  English
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