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Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | | Hebrew term or phrase: הדבר בנפשו | מי שהדבר בנפשו, מתבקשר להכנס לאתר של "תנו לחיות לחיות", או לקישור זה
I am looking for an English equivalent.
Thank you in advance. |
|  SmanthaKudoZ activityQuestions: 107 (none open) ( 11 closed without grading) Answers: 680
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| | Close to one's heart | Explanation:
If something such as a subject or project is close to your heart or near to your heart, it is very important to you and you are very interested in it and concerned about it. |
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Israel
Local time: 20:42
| Grading comment Thank you all! I wish I could select more than one answer.
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2 days20 hrs confidence:
7 hrs confidence: for whom it is a matter of life and death
Explanation:
Some other suggestions:
It is extremely important to him/her. His/her life depends on it.
The point being that this is an extreme expression of something being important to a person.
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Note added at 3 days10 hrs (2010-08-26 10:23:39 GMT) Post-grading
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Smantha - what about "is passionate about it"?
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Note added at 3 days10 hrs (2010-08-26 10:24:30 GMT) Post-grading
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Whoops - you've finalised it in the meantime.
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Note added at 3 days10 hrs (2010-08-26 10:28:01 GMT) Post-grading
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I would point out, however, for the record, that "life" is just as much a translation of נפש as "soul" is.
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Local time: 18:42
Native speaker of:  English
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Asker: Thank you. This suggestion is also idiomatic, but less close to the oroiginal "soul" word.
Asker: Oh, that one is delicious!!!
As I said, I wish there was a way I could choose more than one answer
Asker: Yes, it is, but when you say "a matter of life and death" or "his/her life depends on it" it could also mean a state of emergency, something life threatening, whereas הדבר בנפשו perhaps is more of a passion for something (perhaps, even, a life-long passion :). Thus I liked a lot your last suggestion.
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