делать гадости

English translation: play mean tricks

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Russian term or phrase:делать гадости
English translation:play mean tricks
Entered by: tanyazst

14:07 Sep 5, 2006
Russian to English translations [PRO]
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Russian term or phrase: делать гадости
as in - не делай гадостей
Yulia Shevchenko
United States
Local time: 05:58
play mean tricks
Explanation:
play mean tricks

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mean, nasty, dirty tricks

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Note added at 5 Min. (2006-09-05 14:12:39 GMT)
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play mean / nasty / dirty tricks on smb
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tanyazst
Belarus
Local time: 12:58
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4play mean tricks
tanyazst
4 +3do nasty/mean things [to people]
Alexander Demyanov
4 +1act in a mean way
LukaszPL
4do shit
sergey (X)
4Don't be a jerk
Deborah Hoffman
3play dirty tricks
Jack Doughty
3To be nasty to somebody
PoveyTrans (X)
3don't you screw people up
Andrew Vdovin
2to play smb foul
Vladimir Dubisskiy


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
play mean tricks


Explanation:
play mean tricks

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Note added at 4 Min. (2006-09-05 14:11:48 GMT)
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mean, nasty, dirty tricks

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Note added at 5 Min. (2006-09-05 14:12:39 GMT)
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play mean / nasty / dirty tricks on smb

tanyazst
Belarus
Local time: 12:58
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 18
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Kirill Semenov
26 mins
  -> thank you, Kirill

agree  Emil Tubinshlak
2 hrs

agree  Nico Staes
4 hrs

agree  Vlad Pogosyan
18 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
act in a mean way


Explanation:
one of possibilities

LukaszPL
Poland
Local time: 11:58
Native speaker of: Polish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alexander Demyanov: I'd say "be mean to people"
16 mins
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
play dirty tricks


Explanation:
Don't play dirty tricks (on people).

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:58
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 503

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Alexander Demyanov: these are closer to "pakosti"
19 mins
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
do nasty/mean things [to people]


Explanation:
гадость is not necessarily a "trick". One can do гадости blatantly.

Alexander Demyanov
Local time: 05:58
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 84

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  KatyaNicholas: that's for sure (re: doing гадости blatantly)
6 mins
  -> Thanks, Ekaterina.

agree  Smantha
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Smantha.

agree  Ashok Garlapati
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Ashok.
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
To be nasty to somebody


Explanation:
Don't be nasty to...

PoveyTrans (X)
Local time: 10:58
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
do shit


Explanation:
as in 'don't do shit, man'

sergey (X)
Local time: 10:58
PRO pts in category: 50
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
to play smb foul


Explanation:
*

Vladimir Dubisskiy
United States
Local time: 04:58
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in category: 43
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
don't you screw people up


Explanation:
Frankly I think it means if we don't screw people up, and we don't make them totally miserable unecessarily, then if we don't get above the baseline level ...
www.swimclub.co.uk/forum/archive/index.php/t-1177.html

My feeling would be that as long as we don't screw people up and delay important testing etc. that the re-organization makes sense. ...
mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-devel/2002-February/msg00012.html


Andrew Vdovin
Local time: 16:58
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Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 83
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2 days 21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Don't be a jerk


Explanation:
As a variant...unless there are particular acts of гадости that the speaker has in mind. It just seems more likely to me that someone would say "Don't be x," rather than "Don't do y" when trying to dissuade someone from taking the "low road," so to speak.

Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 05:58
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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