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Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | | Italian term or phrase: per tutti i megabytes! | it's a story for kids, and the robot protagonist says this in astonishment; it's like "per tutti i diavoli!" or "per tutti gli angeli del cielo!" but well... robot-like, so it should humorous.
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|  Alessandro DrenaggiKudoZ activityQuestions: 42 (none open) ( 10 closed without grading) Answers: 137
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James (Jim) Davis
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Local time: 19:57
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37 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1
2 hrs confidence: OMB!
Explanation:
A very common expression is OMG! (as in Oh my God!), So OMB could be Oh My Megabytes! variation. I'm not 100% sure if OMG! is considered child-appropiate though.
| itKara
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Local time: 19:57
Native speaker of: English
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Asker: it's a really nice one and my favourite, I must say, but I think it's more of a young adult pun... wrong audience :-(
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3 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
9 hrs confidence: the megabyte boggles!
Explanation:
Instead of the mind boggles...it depends on the context though as this expresses amazement with a difficulty in understanding.
For example, "Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum studied the diet of 90 species of theropods – colloquially called "predatory dinosaurs", which in many cases became the ancestors of modern birds – examining the teeth, fossilised dung (the mind boggles) and stones in the stomach that had been used to grind vegetation."
Reference: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthcomment/geoffrey-lean/...
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