стрелки переводить

English translation: pass the buck

13:51 Feb 19, 2007

Russian to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Government / Politics

Russian term or phrase: стрелки переводить

Как министр транспорта стрелки переводил - помогите, пожалуйста, с наилучшим вариантом.

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English translation:pass the buck

Explanation:
Точный эквивалент, но не знаю, впишется ли он в контекст.

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Shift responsibility (имхо более правильно, чем shuffle) - упрощенный вариант, т.е. не разговорный.

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Mikhail Kropotov
Germany
Local time: 00:18

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Summary of answers provided

to throw switches

Irene N

2 +2

pass the buck

Mikhail Kropotov

to shuffle off responsibility

Zamira B.

look for (can) carriers

Vitali Stanisheuski

Discussion entries: 4

Answers

12 mins confidence:

to throw switches

Explanation:
incidentally, throw - очень удачное слово в данном контексте

Irene N
United States
Local time: 17:18
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in category: 8

4 hrs confidence:

look for (can) carriers

Explanation:
Can - так и есть, со скобкой.

Изобретательство, конечно, но посмотрим, может носителям понравится...

carry the can - быть козлом отпущения
can carrier - козел отпущения
carrier - также перевозчик, транспортная компания, вполне подходит к транспортной тематике.

Minister of Transport looks for carriers - министр ищет перевозичков, транспортные компании.

Minister of Transport engages can carriers - министр ищет козлов отпущения.

Чтобы все объединить - предлагаю такую форму: Minister of Transport looks for (can) carriers.

Может look for не самый подходящий глагол, но и в оригинале вряд ли министр реально двигает реальными стрелками. Вместо look for можно попробовать engages, involves, invites - о, идея! - welcomes, но это всего лишь связка, не на нем основная каламбурная нагрузка.

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Все же написал один раз engages на месте looks for, извиняюсь, думал об одном , написал другое.

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как там у Вас минимтр транспорта - Вам виднее, Minister of Transport взял из Мультитрана, в Лингво - Secretary of Transportation (амер.), Secretary of State for Transport (брит.)

Vitali Stanisheuski
Belarus
Local time: 01:18
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Belarusian
PRO pts in category: 12

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

pass the buck

Mikhail Kropotov
Germany
Local time: 00:18
Works in field
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 108

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2 hrs confidence:

to shuffle off responsibility

Explanation:
The TaxPayers' AllianceMr Blair said he did not know how many people knew of the loans and added:* 'I'm not shuffling off responsibility on to anyone else.'' *...
www.taxpayersalliance.com/news/individual_tin_news.php?news... - 24k

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OR:

Leaving others to hold the bag

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[Q] From Cam Moore: “It is a common phrase in the USA to say that someone was left holding the bag. And the general meaning is that someone ended up getting the blame for a bad situation. I’ve done a little research but have been unable to locate its origin. Where does the phrase originate?”

[A] It actually dates back to the middle of the eighteenth century in Britain. The original version was to give somebody the bag to hold, meaning to keep somebody occupied or distracted while you slipped away. Figuratively, it meant to leave somebody in the lurch, to let them stay around to take the blame for something that had gone wrong.

You can imagine a criminal gang, about to be confronted by the authorities, telling the most stupid — or expendable — member of their company to hold on to the swag while they took appropriate action, that action being to travel very quickly towards somewhere safer. To be left holding the bag is the same idea, but viewed from the victim’s point of view.

There are other expressions of similar type and sense, especially to be left holding the baby, literally referring to a wronged woman whose lover has disappeared to avoid parental responsibilities.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-lef1.htm

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holding the bag

«крайний»; «стрелочник»; тот, кому приходится отдуваться за всех

http://www.translationdirectory.com/dictionaries/dictionary0...

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Hold the bag - if someone is responsible for something, they are holding the bag

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/hold the bag.ht...

Zamira B.
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:18
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in category: 35

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