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torftigt brödskriveri

English translation: poor bread-and-butter writing

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Swedish term or phrase:torftigt brödskriveri
English translation:poor bread-and-butter writing
Entered by: Thomas Johansson

23:39 Jan 30, 2009
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Swedish term or phrase: torftigt brödskriveri
Länge avfärdades Apollinaires pornografiska texter som ett torftigt brödskriveri, men numera räknas han till de stora erotikerna i fransk litteratur.
Thomas Johansson
Peru
Local time: 13:31
poor quality bread-and-butter writing
Explanation:
Something you do for your bread and butter isn't necessarily what you really want to do.

Another alternative: mediocre bread-and-butter writing
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Anna Herbst
Australia
Local time: 04:31
Grading comment
Tack! Jag tog bort "quality".
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2poor quality bread-and-butter writing
Anna Herbst
3tawdry scribbling
Peter Linton (X)


  

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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
poor quality bread-and-butter writing


Explanation:
Something you do for your bread and butter isn't necessarily what you really want to do.

Another alternative: mediocre bread-and-butter writing

Example sentence(s):
  • The bread-and-butter writing is important to him, but it keeps him from literary work.
  • He had many jobs to do with writing, like journalism, editing, radio, TV and plays for children theatre troupes. He calls these experiences his "bread-and-butter writing" Since he has retired, he can write what he really wants to write.

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Anna Herbst
Australia
Local time: 04:31
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 66
Grading comment
Tack! Jag tog bort "quality".

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ohemulen
11 hrs
  -> Tack Kristina!
agree  Tania McConaghy
1 day 11 hrs
  -> Tack Tania!
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
tawdry scribbling


Explanation:
An idiomatic variant. "Scribbling" straight away implies poor quality or rushed writing, more for money than love of literature, and is of course etymologically close to 'skriveri'.

"Tawdry" implies a degree of moral disapproval.

Peter Linton (X)
Local time: 19:31
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 51
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