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English: Cut the pork from our budget & keep track of fishy activities

Portuguese translation: corte os desperdícios de nosso orçamento e fique de olho nas atividades suspeitas







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English term or phrase:Cut the pork from our budget & keep track of fishy activities
Portuguese translation:corte os desperdícios de nosso orçamento e fique de olho nas atividades suspeitas
Entered by:Palma De Calles
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English term or phrase: Cut the pork from our budget & keep track of fishy activities
It's in a cartoon that says "beef up our marketing program, cut the pork from our budget and keep trak of fishy activities"...
Palma De Calles
Brazil
Clarification request(s) and response
luzia fortes: 6:48pm Oct 2, 2005: Context, please? -
María Leonor Acevedo-Miranda: 7:23pm Oct 2, 2005:
2.2 - Se a pergunta KudoZ for um texto, não deverá ultrapassar as 10 palavras. Textos mais extensos deverão ser publicados como anúncio (Jobs> Post a Job). (Jobs > Post a Job). -
Lumen: 9:45pm Oct 2, 2005: Palma, seria simpático de sua parte apresentar-se. Este é um fórum de profissionais e seu perfil não nos diz nada sobre você. -

corte os desperdícios de nosso orçamento e fique de olho nas atividades suspeitas
Explanation:
This is how I would translate it...
:o)
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Cybeles Lehner
Brazil
Note from asker to answerer
Agradeço a todos pela ajuda.
Olá, Cybelle, muito grata. A sua tradução ficou perfeita.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2corte a gordurao do nosso orçamento e fique de olho em atividades que cheirem mal
Eliane Rio Branco
4 +1corte os desperdícios de nosso orçamento e fique de olho nas atividades suspeitas
Cybeles Lehner
3remova os favores de nosso orçamento & fique de olho nas atividades suspeitasLuiza Modesto


  

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
cut the pork from our budget & keep track of fishy activities remova os favores de nosso orçamento & fique de olho nas atividades suspeitas

Explanation:
Um pouco mais de contexto seria bom.

Pork - Government funds, appointments, or benefits dispensed or legislated by politicians to gain favor with their constituents.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pork

Fishy - (Informal) Inspiring doubt or suspicion.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fishy

Luiza Modesto
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral James Cook: corte as gorduras do nosso orçamento e fique de olhos nas atividades sspeitas
16 hrs
  -> Yes, if you want to play with words. Yet I can´t think of investment as "gordura". If you spend money to get votes, IMO that´s investment. :)
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
cut the pork from our budget & keep track of fishy activities corte os desperdícios de nosso orçamento e fique de olho nas atividades suspeitas

Explanation:
This is how I would translate it...
:o)

Cybeles Lehner
Brazil
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
Agradeço a todos pela ajuda.
Olá, Cybelle, muito grata. A sua tradução ficou perfeita.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral Lincoln Silveira: "gordura" would best fit... note the play with words... beef, pork, fishy... pork is synonym of fat, which figuratively means dispensable expenditures in budgets
3 mins
  -> Thanks... however if we play with "pork" I believe we also should play with "beef up" and also with "fishy" and then it wouldn't sound Portuguese at all... :-)

agree Indra Sweeney: Very good, you get the meaning, but Lincoln is right.. there is a play with words and food; don't know if it would work in Portuguese, but regardless, your translation gets the meaning. : )
36 mins
  -> Thank you, Indra !
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
cut the pork from our budget & keep track of fishy activities corte a gordurao do nosso orçamento e fique de olho em atividades que cheirem mal

Explanation:
é minha sugestão para manter o jogo de palavras - "pork" e "fishy"

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Note added at 4 hrs 39 mins (2005-10-02 23:09:03 GMT)
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corte a gordura de nosso orçamento e fique de olho...
Desculpe o erro ortográfico

Eliane Rio Branco
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Luiza Modesto: É uma ótima sugestão. Fiquei um tempão pensando em como fazer o jogo em português mas não consegui. Parabéns! :)
1 hr

agree Marie Gomes: muito bom mesmo
2 hrs
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