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Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / idioms | | English term or phrase: worth a bob | - ....If I had a horse, which I haven't, I'd go for it meself, which I won't, but I thought perhaps there
might be somebody here with a horse and cart who'd like to go for the bell.
- How much would that somebody be paid, Father?
- Paid?
- I suppose we might be able to scratch up two pounds.
- Now, I would've said it was worth two pounds, 10, if it was worth a bob. |
| ana luizaKudoZ activityQuestions: 224 ( 1 open) ( 4 without valid answers) ( 10 closed without grading) Answers: 1
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| | se valesse alguma coisa | Explanation:
Embora bob seja uma gíria para o xelim, este termo pode ser usado para expressar a ideia de algo de bastante ou de pouco valor.
Por exemplo: This is a good car, it’s worth a few bob - nesse contexto, o carro tem valor.
Já no seu contexto, if it was worth a bob penso que é usado no sentido de se é que vale alguma coisa, e não necessariamente um centavo, xelim, ou qualquer outra moeda de baixo valor.
Este termo é bastante usado na Irlanda.
Veja:
Besides Bob [Dylan] wasn’t singing about birds in the sky, he was singing about values he had everybody sold on, then sold out. Take Bob [Dylan]’s away the words and all you had left was a nasal drone not worth a bob.
Fonte: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/201...
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Buying such items secondhand would usually be the cheaper option. But given this one’s provenance, it’s definitely worth a few bob. The wig worn by Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra – one of the most famous in film history – is up for sale.
Fonte: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2073357/Elizabe... |
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 Luciane Shanahan
Brazil
Local time: 18:39
| Grading comment Obrigada pela sugestão e a explicação, Luciane!
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Explanation:
Embora bob seja uma gíria para o xelim, este termo pode ser usado para expressar a ideia de algo de bastante ou de pouco valor.
Por exemplo: This is a good car, it’s worth a few bob - nesse contexto, o carro tem valor.
Já no seu contexto, if it was worth a bob penso que é usado no sentido de se é que vale alguma coisa, e não necessariamente um centavo, xelim, ou qualquer outra moeda de baixo valor.
Este termo é bastante usado na Irlanda.
Veja:
Besides Bob [Dylan] wasn’t singing about birds in the sky, he was singing about values he had everybody sold on, then sold out. Take Bob [Dylan]’s away the words and all you had left was a nasal drone not worth a bob.
Fonte: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/201...
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Buying such items secondhand would usually be the cheaper option. But given this one’s provenance, it’s definitely worth a few bob. The wig worn by Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra – one of the most famous in film history – is up for sale.
Fonte: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2073357/Elizabe...
Reference: http://books.google.com.br/books?id=tvRp1whVFUsC&pg=PA1353&l...
Reference: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2073357/Elizabe...
| Luciane Shanahan
Brazil
Local time: 18:39
Native speaker of:  Portuguese
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| | Grading comment | Obrigada pela sugestão e a explicação, Luciane! |
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