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Sports / Fitness / Recreation / American Football | | English term or phrase: huddle and breakaway | This is from a USA company's staff brochure, specifically an article about a staff team meeting, where at the end they all built a circle/stuck their heads together and then cheered, like in American Football.
The sentence:" They all dedicated a certain amount of money to help make the region's goal, so they had an huddle and breakaway."
Is there a German terminology for this, as it is part of American Football Games?
huddle = 'Haufen'
breakaway = 'Gegenangriff'
But this doesn't seem to make a punchy phrase like the one in English, and the tone is certainly meant to be fun, informal and motivating, hence the sports parallel.
Any thoughts appreciated! |
|  Sandra LutzKudoZ activityQuestions: 2 (none open) ( 1 without valid answers) Answers: 23
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| | German translation:no direct translation | Explanation:
As far as I know there is no German equivalent to huddle and breakaway. In a sports context I would not translate it at all and leave it in English. I've often heard and used the word 'huddle' in a sports context in Germany. However this doesn't go for breakaway. If you feel you need to express the whole thing in German I would go with something like 'Sie steckten die Köpfe zusammen, wie vor einem Fußballspiel, um dann motiviert an die Aufgaben heranzugehen.' |
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Johannes Stehle
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Local time: 03:55
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