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English translation: It doesn\'t knead to break your budget


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German term or phrase:da lässt sich jedes Budget kneten
English translation:It doesn\'t knead to break your budget
Entered by: Claudia Mark
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10:23 Nov 20, 2009
German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Marketing / Market Research
German term or phrase: ganzer Satz
Hi,

ich übersetze hier einen Marketingtext für ein Unternehmen, dass sich auf das Rundkneten von Metallteilen für verschiedene Industriezweige spezialisiert hat, dies ist eine besonders kostensenkende Bearbeitungstechnologie.
Durch Werbeschreiben, die kleine aus Knetmasse geformte Teile für Werbezwecke zeigen, sollen neue Kunden akquiriert werden und auf die kostengünstige Technologie hingewiesen werden.

Die Überschrift lautet:

*Da lässt sich jedes Budget kneten *

Bitte um Hilfe bei der Übersetzung der Überschrift, bekomme das einfach nicht hin!

Tausend Dank, Claudia
Claudia Mark
Germany
Local time: 04:23
It doesn't knead to break your budget
Explanation:
Or "you don't knead to break your budget/break the bank"
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Jeux de Mots
Germany
Local time: 04:23
Grading comment
I love it! Vielen, vielen Dank!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +6It doesn't knead to break your budget
Jeux de Mots
4 +2For budgets of all shapes and sizes
Hermann
4For any budget
Elsje Apostel
3How any budget can be bent!
British Diana
3Something any budget can stretch to
Stuart Dykes
3This lets every budget be kneaded
Frosty
3Kneaded to your budget
Armorel Young


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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
For budgets of all shapes and sizes


Explanation:
ein Versuch

Hermann
Local time: 03:23
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 47

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  orla
6 hrs
  -> Thank you!

agree  philgoddard: I'm voting for this because I don't think the German wordplay works in English. And because it's a good translation, obviously!
7 hrs
  -> Thank you!
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Kneaded to your budget


Explanation:
Maybe
Or there's always:
"Whatever your needs, we can knead it"

Armorel Young
Local time: 03:23
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
This lets every budget be kneaded


Explanation:
It´s nothing more than a play on the word "kneten"!

Frosty
Local time: 04:23
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
It doesn't knead to break your budget


Explanation:
Or "you don't knead to break your budget/break the bank"


Jeux de Mots
Germany
Local time: 04:23
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
I love it! Vielen, vielen Dank!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ingeborg Gowans: herrliches Wortspiel, clever slogan!
47 mins
  -> Danke Ingeborg

agree  Goldcoaster: very good play on words!
1 hr
  -> Thanks Goldcoaster

agree  Rob Edwards
1 hr
  -> Thanks Rob

agree  Colin Rowe: Un très bon "jeu de mots" :-)
2 hrs
  -> Merci bcp!

agree  Julia Lipeles
4 hrs

agree  Inge Meinzer: Spitze!
4 hrs

neutral  philgoddard: If I've understood the German wordplay correctly, it simply doesn't work in English
7 hrs
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
For any budget


Explanation:
For any budget the client might have available

Elsje Apostel
Local time: 04:23
Native speaker of: Dutch
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Something any budget can stretch to


Explanation:
May need a little work to come up with something catchier..

Stuart Dykes
Local time: 04:23
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
How any budget can be bent!


Explanation:
My suggestion is quite close to the original.
It alludes to the expression "to bend the budget" = das Budget zu seinen Günsten (ver)beugen.
Ich nehme an, dass die Knetmasse gebogene Teile zeigt.

British Diana
Germany
Local time: 04:23
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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