enrolar/enrolacão

English translation: slack off

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Portuguese term or phrase:	enrolar/enrolacão
English translation:	slack off
Entered by:	Sormane Gomes

15:33 Apr 10, 2005

Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Other

Portuguese term or phrase: enrolar/enrolacão

Pare de enrolar durante seu trabalho.

Este fulano só enrola...

Therese A. Paulina

slack off

Explanation:
My suggestion.

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Note added at 7 mins (2005-04-10 15:40:40 GMT)
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... I Should Be Working - Look busy while you slack off and play games or read jokes on this site. Insanity At Work - For the employees of the customer ...
www.syxy.com/guideweb/?browse=/ Recreation/Humor/Job-Related/ - 21k

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Note added at 14 mins (2005-04-10 15:48:24 GMT)
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... Now you may wonder, how can you slack off at work, and stil get everything done on time. well, that is a personal secret, ( that i wont post on company ...
www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/5/1315/19085 - 120k

Selected response from:

Sormane Gomes
United States
Local time: 03:09

Grading comment

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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +4

slack off

Sormane Gomes

dragging around [work]

Eduardo Queiroz

dither

Paul Dixon

cheating

Isabel Vidigal

Answers

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

enrolar/enrolacão

slack off

Sormane Gomes
United States
Local time: 03:09
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 91

Grading comment

Graded automatically based on peer agreement.

1 hr confidence:

enrolar/enrolacão cheating

Explanation:
do ponto de vista que "enrolar" seja enganar.

Isabel Vidigal
Brazil
Local time: 04:09
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

4 hrs confidence:

enrolar/enrolacão dragging around [work]

Explanation:
exemplos:

231 Erwin Road: February 2005
... So spent the day dragging around work, not too hungover thankfully. Spent the
night cleaning up the apartment. Then for some reason I decided to play ...
231erwinroad.blogspot.com/ 2005_02_01_231erwinroad_archive.html - 62k - Cached - Similar pages

CLAYART archives -- May 2001, week 2 (#184)
... remember... I am just creeping up from the bed or creeping back to the
bed after dragging around work for 12 hours of enjoyment. ...
lsv.ceramics.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0105b& L=clayart&F=&S=&P=18919 - 10k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

..stories i tell..
... And I am, yes, officially, already wiped out. I'm so tired this morning that
I'm dragging around work like I was one of the waking dead. ...
dryad.diaryland.com/030701_40.html - 6k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

In theory, everything works. - Bravenet Web Journal
... I spend that day every week feeling like hell. I'm dragging around work all day.
Then when I get home where I could rest, I am wide awake again. ...
carlakayj.bravemusings.com/entry/3315 - 23k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

BrainTalk Communities - Autonomic PN - Cardiac Symtoms
... weekend - after a week and a half long bout with some sort of respiratory infection
(fever, etc.) - I remember because I wass dragging around work - but still ...

Eduardo Queiroz
Local time: 04:09
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 18

10 hrs confidence:

enrolar/enrolacão dither

Explanation:
This is how I would put it.

Paul Dixon
Brazil
Local time: 04:09
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 60

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