Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Jan 3, 2006 12:33
20 yrs ago
Italian term
mangiarmela
A refreshing change from financial statements - I'm translating a number of handwritten questionnaires relating to a cat food survey. The question is "Come descriverebbe il tuo gatto questo prodotto?" So this is the cat's answer!
"Mangiare un cibo con dei veri pezzi di pollo dentro mi da la sensazione di aver acciuffato una preda e dato che sono un felino di *mangiarmela poi soddisfatto per la caccia*"
"Mangiare un cibo con dei veri pezzi di pollo dentro mi da la sensazione di aver acciuffato una preda e dato che sono un felino di *mangiarmela poi soddisfatto per la caccia*"
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48 mins
Angela Arnone
Native in English
Works in field
Italian by name ... English by nature!
Native in: English 
Works in: Italian to English, English, Italian
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43
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"hunt now ... eat at leisure" sort of moggy
Hi Jean, you need to turn the whole thing on its head, IMHO!
It's saying that the cat is one who hunts now and then eats the catch later, savouring the satisfaction of the hunt above all.
"mangiarmela", as everyone says, refers to the prey.
It's saying that the cat is one who hunts now and then eats the catch later, savouring the satisfaction of the hunt above all.
"mangiarmela", as everyone says, refers to the prey.
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Comment: "Thanks to everyone for their wonderful suggestions - I could have used all of them. Just think Angela's is really catchy! "
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8 mins
Denise DeVries
United States
United States
Native in English
Works in field
United States
linguaphile
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, Italian to English, and 1 more.
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8
gobble it up
eat it all
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Daniela Zambrini
: whoops, just added a note with the same translation,
1 min
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Francesca Perrone
2 hrs
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Garaemma
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7 mins
Daniela Zambrini
Italy
Italy
Native in Italian
&
English
Italy
Handling words with care since 1998
Native in: English , Italian
Works in: English to Italian, Italian to English
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34
eat it (the prey) all up
mangiarmi (la preda, mentioned previously ) = mangiarmela
verb (refl.) > mangiarsi qualcosa
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Note added at 8 mins (2006-01-03 12:42:35 GMT)
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maybe "gobble it all up" could sound more like cat's talk ...meeaoww ;-)
verb (refl.) > mangiarsi qualcosa
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Note added at 8 mins (2006-01-03 12:42:35 GMT)
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maybe "gobble it all up" could sound more like cat's talk ...meeaoww ;-)
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10 mins
Luuk Arens
Netherlands
Netherlands
Specializes in field
Netherlands
Professional translations | web editing
Native in: Dutch (Variants: Netherlands, Flemish)
Works in: English to Dutch, Dutch to English, Italian to Dutch, and 2 more.
devour (the prey)
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Vittorina Klingbeil (X)
: I like 'devour' in this case as one gets the feeling of the hunt and the feline hungrily demolishing the prey
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Jo Macdonald
Spain
Spain
Native in English
Spain
An expectation of excellence
Native in: English
Works in: Italian to English, Spanish to English, English
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27
whisker-licking
Hi Jean,
Maybe you could go for a whisker-licking metaphor:
“Those real chicken chunks, are whisker-linkin’ good.”
Or
“The real chicken chunks leave me licking my whiskers”
Something like that.
;-)
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