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magic pixie dust

German translation: magischer Feenstaub/Zaubersalz


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English term or phrase:magic pixie dust
German translation:magischer Feenstaub/Zaubersalz
Entered by: Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: magic pixie dust
This book is the kind of book you would a chemist to write - one that is mechanistic, interrelated, and views the body as a complex chemical factory to be measured and controlled by adding a bit of the right reagent over here, taking something out over there, and sprinkling on "magic pixie dust" where needed.

Kontext ist ein Buch: der Buchautor (ein Chemiker) schreibt über seine Art das Thema Gesundheit zu betrachten.
H.Eichmann
Austria
Local time: 18:22
magischer Feenstaub
Explanation:

...oder auch weniger lyrisch """Zaubersalz"""
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Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
Germany
Local time: 18:22
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4magischer Feenstaub
Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
4 +1magischer Feenstaub
Dr. Matthias Schauen


Discussion entries: 5





  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
magischer Feenstaub


Explanation:
Google-Belege lasse ich jetzt mal.

Dr. Matthias Schauen
Germany
Local time: 18:22
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator): Schade, dass die Zehntelsekunden nicht angezeigt werden... :-D
4 mins
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
magischer Feenstaub


Explanation:

...oder auch weniger lyrisch """Zaubersalz"""


Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
Germany
Local time: 18:22
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Zaubersalz klingt gut. Ich wollte magischen Feenstaub eher vermeiden.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Dr. Matthias Schauen: :-)
2 mins
  -> :-)

agree  Nina Berger: bei einem historischen Text vielleicht auch "Theriak"
5 mins
  -> :-)

agree  Marga Shaw
2 hrs
  -> :-)

agree  Goldcoaster
19 hrs
  -> :-)
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