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English term or phrase:	It's a slam dunk
Polish translation:	pewniak
Entered by:	Aleksander Tobolewski

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2:34pm Jun 15, 2004

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English term or phrase: It's a slam dunk

Tenet (duyrektor CIA) tak powiedzial Buszowi na temat istnienia broni masowej zaglady w Iraku. Nawet w slowniku slangowym nie moge znalezc!

Aleksander Tobolewski

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pidzej: 9:11pm Jun 15, 2004: Been reading Safire on language? Should be compulsory reading, should't it? -

pewniak

Explanation:
slam dunk to w koszykowce wsad do kosza, a wiec cos absolutnie pewnego - nie mozna nie trafic wkladajac pilke do kosza. Ale bo ja wiem>
A moze strzal w dziesiatke lub tp. Troche malo kontekstu

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jszacki
Poland

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pewniak

jszacki

może to pomoże

leff

not an answer, just more context

pidzej

strzał w dziesiątkę

Jabberwock

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pewniak

Explanation:
slam dunk to w koszykowce wsad do kosza, a wiec cos absolutnie pewnego - nie mozna nie trafic wkladajac pilke do kosza. Ale bo ja wiem>
A moze strzal w dziesiatke lub tp. Troche malo kontekstu

jszacki
Poland
Native speaker of:

Polish
PRO pts in category: 12

11 mins confidence:

it's a slam dunk strzał w dziesiątkę

Explanation:
Albo: hicior :)
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Slam_dunk
http://www.freesearch.co.uk/dictionary/slam-dunk

Jabberwock
Poland
Native speaker of:

Polish
PRO pts in category: 8

13 mins confidence:

it's a slam dunk może to pomoże

Explanation:
slam-dunk
n.
Basketball a forceful dunk shot

dunk shot
Basketball a shot scoring a field goal that is made by a player who leaps up and thrusts the ball down into the basket
[Webster's]

O ile kojarzę, to taki 'dunk shot' nosi w polskim slangu sportową nazwę 'paka'.

W tym wypadku można więc 'slam dunk' przetłumaczyć jako 'mocny strzał', 'strzał nie do obrony' (ale to już przeniesienie na piłkę nożną)

leff
Poland
Specializes in field
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Polish
PRO pts in category: 72

6 hrs confidence:

it's a slam dunk not an answer, just more context

Explanation:
SLAM DUNK

''Don't worry,'' the director of Central Intelligence reportedly told a skeptical President Bush in December 2002. ''It's a slam dunk.''

When George Tenet resigned this month, Mark Leibovich of The Washington Post wrote: ''He is a victim of his own pithiness. If he had been long-winded and equivocal, Washington would have forgotten his words, if not his guidance.'' The Wall Street Journal editorially focused on those words: ''We're more forgiving about Mr. Tenet's now famous statement to Mr. Bush that Saddam's possession of W.M.D. was a 'slam dunk.' Every intelligence service in the world shared that belief, as did the United Nations.'' The Post headline picked up the basketball metaphor: ''After a Missed 'Slam-Dunk,' No Way to Rebound.''

It describes the action of a leaping basketball player making an especially forceful ''dunk shot,'' stuffing the ball down into the basket. As noted here 18 years ago, its coinage has been attributed to Chick Hearn, a Los Angeles sportscaster, describing the technique of the seven-foot Wilt Chamberlain. The O.E.D. has since spotted a use in a 1976 Times column about Representative Morris Udall of Arizona, when Tom Wicker characterized him fondly as ''the only one-eyed candidate who would know how to put in a slam dunk on a New York playground.''

The phrase's meaning has evolved from ''forceful, even brutal'' to ''decisive, a sure thing.'' Its closest metaphoric synonym is from bridge: a hand so strong that the player can expose his cards on the table is called a lay-down hand. There may be a far-fetched connection to slam dunk: ''Enormous cards are held,'' The Westminster Gazette wrote in 1906, ''and we have a lay-down great or small slam.''

pidzej
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PRO pts in category: 19

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English: It's a slam dunk

Polish translation: pewniak