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Advertising / Public Relations | | Italian term or phrase: di corsa | | I need a suggestion keeping in mind that in this specific case there is a play on words with "di corsa" meaning "quickly" and "corsa" in the sense of a car race (the text talks about a famous company organising a car race (rally). |
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 Maria Kisic
Local time: 20:22
| Grading comment Thanks, this is the one that best fits my text!
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21 mins confidence: in a hurry
Language variant: hot foot
Explanation:
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Note added at 22 mins (2008-05-02 21:48:39 GMT)
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she's always in a hurry on her way home
| xxxMeSouth
Italy
Local time: 02:22
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Native speaker of:  Italian
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 fast track / full speed
Explanation:
A couple of options
| Maria Kisic
Local time: 20:22
Works in field
Native speaker of:  Spanish
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40 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 racing
Explanation:
as an adjective, in the sense of 'moving swiftly'
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Note added at 49 mins (2008-05-02 22:15:21 GMT)
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as an adverb it gets ugly, though...'racingly'...? maybe there is some other way, like 'in a racing manner'...even worse... ;-) But...with 'racing' you would keep exactly the same play on words!
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Note added at 1 day55 mins (2008-05-03 22:21:46 GMT)
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I just thought of another one: 'full throttle', either on its own, or 'in full throttle' or 'at full throttle'....but I like it best on its own...!
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