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English translation: cahoots


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Polish term or phrase:sztama
English translation:cahoots
Entered by: Magdalena Szewciów
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19:30 Jan 27, 2012
Polish to English translations [PRO]
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Polish term or phrase: sztama
Kontekst: donos. :)
"Życzliwy" podejrzewa pan X o trzymanie tzw. sztamy z panem Y.
"thick as thieves" jakoś mi tu nie pasuje.
Magdalena Szewciów
Poland
Local time: 07:45
cahoots
Explanation:
może tędy?


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ca·hoots (k-hts)
pl.n. Informal
Questionable collaboration; secret partnership
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cahoots

The word cahoot is now only found in plural in the phrase in cahoots, meaning 'in partnership; in league', and almost always with a suggestion of some questionable or nefarious purpose. Recent example: "Most Albanians believe that Berisha was in cahoots with the operators who ran the pyramid swindles" (Time, 1997).
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990701
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allp
Poland
Local time: 07:45
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +8cahoots
allp
4was in cohorts with
Tomasz Poplawski
3to be chummy, to be tight, with someone
geopiet
Summary of reference entries provided
ref.Polangmar

Discussion entries: 6





  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
trzymał sztamę
was in cohorts with


Explanation:
np. tak, rozszerzyłem pytanie, bo inaczej nie ma jak tego okroić po angielsku

Tomasz Poplawski
Local time: 00:45
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 18

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Polangmar: Ciekawa sprawa (nadaje się na forum English-English): niby są wystąpienia na stronach anglosaskich, ale czy to jest poprawne wyrażenie i nie doszło tu do kontaminacji frazeologicznej z wyrażeniem "to be in cahoots"? || Podałem kilka tekstów na ten temat.
3 hrs
  -> jeśli błąd, to slyszany powszechniej niż by to wynikało z Twoich przypisów - cóż, człowiek uczy się całe życie...
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +8
cahoots


Explanation:
może tędy?


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Note added at   28 min (2012-01-27 19:58:47 GMT)
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ca·hoots (k-hts)
pl.n. Informal
Questionable collaboration; secret partnership
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cahoots

The word cahoot is now only found in plural in the phrase in cahoots, meaning 'in partnership; in league', and almost always with a suggestion of some questionable or nefarious purpose. Recent example: "Most Albanians believe that Berisha was in cahoots with the operators who ran the pyramid swindles" (Time, 1997).
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990701


allp
Poland
Local time: 07:45
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  legawa
2 hrs
  -> dzięki :)
agree  Rafal Piotrowski: be in cahoots, yes :)
2 hrs
  -> dzięki :)
agree  Stanislaw Czech: ładne
2 hrs
  -> dzięki :)
agree  Polangmar
4 hrs
  -> dzięki
agree  annabc
5 hrs
  -> dzięki
agree  Dariusz Saczuk
7 hrs
  -> dzięki
agree  Bubz
8 hrs
  -> dzięki
agree  Katarzyna Landsberg-Polubok
12 hrs
  -> dzięki
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
trzymać z kimś sztamę
to be chummy, to be tight, with someone


Explanation:
he was chummy with quite a few shady characters

we've been tight since we were in jail together

geopiet
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 65
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Reference comments


4 hrs peer agreement (net): +2
Reference: ref.

Reference information:
A natural substitution for a word that only survives in frozen idiomatic usage, since one is typically in cahoots with one’s cohorts.
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/577/cohorts/
There were at least 4 instances of people being “in cohorts” instead of “in cahoots”.
http://lazyjayn.com/if-youre-gonna-have-a-publisher/
I think you mean "in cahoots" - cohorts doesn't work that way (unless you meant it in terms of Roman military divisions, but that seemed less likely).
http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/mckyc/mutalisk_po...

Wygląda to więc na powszechny błąd językowy - taki niezauważany przez większość użytkowników języka, typu "najmniejsza linia oporu", "w każdym bądź razie", "wywrzeć piętno", "wczoraj żeśmy o tym mówili".

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"Coordinately invited" is a linguistic curiosity known as an eggcorn, where an unfamiliar or confusing word (cordially) is replaced by a word that makes more sense to the user in context (coordinately). Other examples are "slow gin" for "sloe gin" or "in cohorts with" for "in cahoots with". You should submit it to the folks at the Eggcorn Database.
http://ask.metafilter.com/169642/Is-Coordinately-Invited-OK

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

Polangmar
Poland
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 60

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  annabc: Some more examples: "conversatory" instead of "conservatory" and "conversation" instead of "conversion" (e.g. "attic conversation":)))). Both very common in the UK and Ireland.
1 hr
  -> Przypomniała mi się historia z opłatami "sanacyjnymi" (zamiast "sankcyjnymi"): http://tinyurl.com/82u9ujz :-)
agree  Dariusz Saczuk: W Nowym Jorku "axed" zamiast "asked" to normalka.
3 hrs
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