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Finance (general) | | English term or phrase: lot at drawing; short straw | | He remembers that the hostilities of the first Gulf War between August 1990 and February 1991 never intimidated Charles. Typically, and with magnificent insouciance, Charles would go onto his roof at nights to watch the scuds fly over, and equally typically, he never once bemoaned his lot at drawing what to most of us looked like a decidedly short straw," he says |
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| | realizar uma tarefa muito desagradável | Explanation:
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Creio que isto tem que haver com a expressão "draw the short straw "
- This practice is immortalized in the cliché "drawing the short straw," meaning to be randomly, unluckily, or unfairly selected to perform a task or suffer ...
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- draw the short straw : to be the person chosen to perform an unpleasant task
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- clutch/catch/grasp at a straw estar desesperado; draw the short straw escolhido para uma tarefa desagradável (fig.) not care a straw não se importar (coloq. ...
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3 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 To have a better dictionary it would be better to have 1 expression per question
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To have a better dictionary it would be better to have 1 expression per question.
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19 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 favor ler abaixo
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...ele nunca se lamuriou por ter sido escolhido ao acaso para tarefas indesejáveis.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/draw_the_short_straw
draw the short straw
To select the shortest straw or other object while drawing straws.
(idiomatic) To be selected to do an undesirable task (by drawing the shortest straw or otherwise).
I drew the short straw and got stuck doing the whole project alone
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21 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): -1 realizar uma tarefa muito desagradável
Explanation:
Sug.
Creio que isto tem que haver com a expressão "draw the short straw "
- This practice is immortalized in the cliché "drawing the short straw," meaning to be randomly, unluckily, or unfairly selected to perform a task or suffer ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing_straws -
- draw the short straw : to be the person chosen to perform an unpleasant task
(FreeDicitionary)
- clutch/catch/grasp at a straw estar desesperado; draw the short straw escolhido para uma tarefa desagradável (fig.) not care a straw não se importar (coloq. ...
www.answers.com/topic/straw - 85k
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55 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 | (his) lot at drawing... (a) short straw o que o destino lhe reservou... (a) falta de sorte - ver explicação
Explanation:
Mudei um pouco o termo de origem. Como sempre, não dá para simplesmente traduzir termos sem levar em conta o contexto.
Não existe a expressão "lot at drawing". Não dá para separar do resto da frase. LOT, você deve saber, significa SORTE/DESTINO/FORTUNA/FADO:
4. destiny: the things somebody has or experiences in life
our lot in life
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Já a expressão que se segue (AT DRAWING) não pode ser lida isoladamente. O certo é AT DRAWING... (A) SHORT STRAW. Você já deve ter visto algum filme onde as pessoas tiram a sorte no palitinho (ou com pedaços de palha). Quem tira o palito (ou palha) mais curto(a), perde. É essa a idéia. Posto isso, tenho duas sugestões:
he never once bemoaned his lot at drawing what to most of us looked like a decidedly short straw
jamais reclamou do que o destino lhe reservou, aquilo que a maioria de nós, definitivamente, chamaria de falta de sorte.
jamais reclamou daquilo que a maioria de nós, definitivamente, chamaria de falta de sorte.
Example sentence(s):- Mas o destino lhe reservou outra coisa. / Mas o destino lhe reservou algumas surpresas e fez mudar o rumo de sua história.
- Muitas vezes Massa reclamou da falta de sorte, mas neste domingo ela se mostrou afetuosa para com o brasileiro. / Já Klever Kolberg reclamou da falta de sorte.
Reference: http://www.objetiva.com.br/objetiva/cs/?q=node/679
Reference: http://www2.uol.com.br/teojose/noticias/ult794u55456.shl
|  LUÍS HENRIQUE KUBOTA
Brazil
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