Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
48 Crash
English answer:
male menopause
Added to glossary by
Giordano B (X)
Jan 27, 2011 10:22
13 yrs ago
English term
Giordano B (X)
48 Crash
English
Art/Literary
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
What is the meaning of that term?
Quatro Suzi - 48 Crash
Well you got the hands of a man and the face of a little boy blue-ue
And when you stand you're so grand there's a case just for looking at you-oo oo-oo
You're so young, you could have been the devil's son
You're so young, but like a hang up I'll be sad when you're old and you're gone
Refrain:
Watch Out!
You know the 48 Crash come like a lightning flash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
And the 48 Crash is a silk sash bash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
48 Crash, 48 Crash
Come like a lightning flash, a lightning flash
And it's a silk sash bash, a silk sash bash, that's the 48 Crash
You've got the kind of a mind of a juvenile Romeo-o
And you're so blind you could find that your motor ain't ready to go-o o-o
You're so young, you're a hot shot son of a gun
You're so young, but like a teenage tearaway soon you'll be torn and you'll run
Refrain
Crash, Crash, 48 Crash (Crash)
Crash, Crash, 48 Crash (Crash)
Crash, Crash, 48 Crash (Crash)
Crash, Crash, AAAGH!
You know the 48 Crash comes like a lightning flash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
And the 48 Crash is a silk sash bash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
48 Crash, 48 Crash
Come like a lightning flash, a lightning flash
And it's a silk sash bash, a silk sash bash
That's the 48 Crash
48 Crash (Repeat And Fade
Well you got the hands of a man and the face of a little boy blue-ue
And when you stand you're so grand there's a case just for looking at you-oo oo-oo
You're so young, you could have been the devil's son
You're so young, but like a hang up I'll be sad when you're old and you're gone
Refrain:
Watch Out!
You know the 48 Crash come like a lightning flash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
And the 48 Crash is a silk sash bash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
48 Crash, 48 Crash
Come like a lightning flash, a lightning flash
And it's a silk sash bash, a silk sash bash, that's the 48 Crash
You've got the kind of a mind of a juvenile Romeo-o
And you're so blind you could find that your motor ain't ready to go-o o-o
You're so young, you're a hot shot son of a gun
You're so young, but like a teenage tearaway soon you'll be torn and you'll run
Refrain
Crash, Crash, 48 Crash (Crash)
Crash, Crash, 48 Crash (Crash)
Crash, Crash, 48 Crash (Crash)
Crash, Crash, AAAGH!
You know the 48 Crash comes like a lightning flash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
And the 48 Crash is a silk sash bash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
48 Crash, 48 Crash
Come like a lightning flash, a lightning flash
And it's a silk sash bash, a silk sash bash
That's the 48 Crash
48 Crash (Repeat And Fade
Responses
| 4 +3 | male menopause |
Nikita Kobrin
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| 2 +1 | collision of a freight train |
British Diana
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Responses
+3
1 hr
Nikita Kobrin
Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania
Translator/Journalist/Voiceover Pro
Native in: Russian (Variants: Standard-Lithuania, Standard-Belarus, Standard-Ukraine, Standard-Russia, Standard-Latvia) 
Works in: English to Russian, Russian
Related KudoZ points
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4
Selected
male menopause
This song written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman is about male menopause which can occur in men around age of 48 when they experience many symptoms of female menopause (hot flashes, fatigue), as well as sexual dysfunction.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you!"
+1
7 mins
British Diana
Germany
Germany
Native in English
&
English
Specializes in field
Germany
enthusiast
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: German to English, English to German, English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
8
collision of a freight train
Note from asker:
| Thank you, Diana! Wish I could distribute the points between you as your suggested meaning is surely valid and being played on, etc. (whatever the author says :)) |
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Thayenga
: I believe it is. :)
1 hr
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Thanks, Thayenga!
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| neutral |
Polangmar
: I don't think a collision of a freight train can be "a silk sash bash". || It sems to be bashing with a silk sash.
2 hrs
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Thanks, Polangmar - I must admit you have a point there. What IS a "silk sash bash"?/I know what "silk","sash" and "bash" mean but what does this term mean and in this context?
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Discussion
Besides, the 48 crash is a lot of bull, specially because it's very much individual. I believe Suzi Quatro was picking on males just the same the ordinary man doesn't really pick up on woman's (psychological) discomfort (not to tell about physical) with her changing condition (=society culturally-influenced curse, if you can stand the pun). I think you should try a mix between Nikita's and Diana's interpretations. In a sense Diana's is a sort of description of Nikita's translation... were we to believe to this lot of bull: I deny dignity of scientific proof to google hits, and anyways didn't hit me any at 48... and I'm way over that age. Maurizio