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Enfiar no @#$!

15:36 Apr 5, 2008
Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: Enfiar no @#$!
When someone gets something and lose it.
O meu irmão enfiou o tênis no... de novo(Vive perdendo as coisas)
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Summary of answers provided
5to stuff
Fernando Okabe Biazibeti
4Stick up your ass
José Patrício


  

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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Stick up your ass


Explanation:
enfiar - stick up
cu - ass

José Patrício
Portugal
Local time: 14:16
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andrea Munhoz
20 hrs
  -> thank you
disagree  Fernando Okabe Biazibeti: incorreto. tradução literal
542 days
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542 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
to stuff


Explanation:
A tradução anterior é literal.
"stick up" é usado na expressão "stick up for someone or something" e significa "falar em favor de algem ou alguma coisa"
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stick up for

"Stuff" é mais adequado nesse caso. Não é presciso usar "in your ass", pois já dá para saber o que você quer dizer (desde que você mencione o objeto que se deve "enfiar")
Eis um exemplo de uso(com contexto parcialmente explicado):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sma3ugpg5tE

Mas essa expreção não poder ser usada para disser que uma pessoa perdeu alguma coisa. Socio-culturalmente não faria sentido.

Example sentence(s):
  • "You can stuuf your taboos!"
Fernando Okabe Biazibeti
Brazil
Local time: 10:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 1
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