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Jun 4, 2004 08:21
20 yrs ago
Russian term

Nu, che, pizdy dali, bliad', vozdukh zabrali kakoi byl i otpustili.

May offend Russian to English Social Sciences Slang
Interview with a drug user.

The drug user is describing a time when the police busted a drug den:
Sidim, varim, uzhe tol'ko vmazalis'. Nu vse. Nu netu uzhe niche. U nas uzhe nichego netu. Nu, che, pizdy dali, bliad', vozdukh zabrali kakoi byl i otpustili.
Obychno, tak. Nu, ne stanut sami zamorachivat'sia, che, esli uzhe nichego net.

Right, so they are sitting in this den and they have taken all their drugs. The police burst in. Then what happens? It seems that the police take some 'vozdykh' (slang for a kind of drug) and let the drug users go. Have I understood this correctly? I don't understand how the police could take this 'vozdukh' if the drug users had already injected all their drugs..
And I also don't understand what is meant by 'pizdy dali'. Don't worry, I know what 'pizdy' means but I don't see who is being referred to and what they 'gave'.
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Proposed translations

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40 mins
Selected

Shit, they fucked us up, took all the cash and let us go

"Dat' pizdy" means "kick the shit out of smb" or "fuck smb up".
Peer comment(s):

neutral Danil Yemelyanov : No exactly:fuck up (verb, transitive) ‡ (1) to make a mess out of something, (2) to cause someone to become psychologically unstable. note See fuck up (intransitive). (1) "John really fucked his assignment up." (2) "John's parents really fucked him up."
24 mins
You are right, it also means those things. I am speaking from personal experience with 100% confidence. If I say to somebody, "I'll fuck you up" it means I am threatening to beat him up. "They fucked us up" means only "they beat us up badly".
agree Andrey Belousov (X)
3 hrs
thanx!
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10 mins

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you can say: they gave us shit/kicked our asses and took all the money we had...
cozduh eto money
Please not the first one is very offensive...

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Note added at 10 mins (2004-06-04 08:32:25 GMT)
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Sorry, Vozduh is money...

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Note added at 15 mins (2004-06-04 08:37:03 GMT)
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sorry again, i meant: please notE
Peer comment(s):

neutral SirReaL : all good, but "to give smb shit" is "to deceive" or "to bullshit" or "to irritate", not "to beat up"
3 hrs
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2 hrs

they've beaten us, took all the money we had and then they did let us go

So what would they do, they've beaten us, took all the money we had and then they did let us go.

Dat pizdy = to beat.
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