"wave around in the blue"

Portuguese translation: não acontecem por acaso

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English term or phrase:"wave around in the blue"
Portuguese translation:não acontecem por acaso
Entered by: Nick Taylor

19:44 Mar 2, 2021
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Anthropology / sociologia
English term or phrase: "wave around in the blue"
"Actions do not wave around in the blue: they are embedded in a specific context"
priscila santos
Local time: 20:10
não acontecem por acaso
Explanation:
não acontecem por acaso

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4 +4não acontecem por acaso
Nick Taylor
4 +1não ocorrem / acontecem / se dão aleatoriamente no vácuo
Oliver Simões
4as ações/posições não acenam aos democratas (ao partido democrático), estão inseridas em um contexto
MARCOS BAZILIO


  

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as ações/posições não acenam aos democratas (ao partido democrático), estão inseridas em um contexto


Explanation:
Blue aqui refere-se às cores do partido democrata, creio eu.

as ações/posições não acenam aos democratas (ao partido democrático), estão inseridas em um contexto....

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https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/11/th...

The Real Metaphor of the ‘Blue Wave’
During the midterms, a small phrase suggested a bigger problem: America still isn’t sure how to talk to itself.

One report announced the results of the 2018 midterms like this: “Democratic ‘Blue Wave’ Washes Over House as Republicans Keep Senate.” Another shared the results like this: “Democrats Take Control of House as ‘Blue Wave’ Wipes Out Republicans.” But then there was this: “Democrats Seize U.S. House But Trump Averts ‘Blue Wave.’” And also this: “The Blue Wave Ran Into Trump’s Red Wall.” And also this: “Blue wave? What blue wave?”

The mixed messaging, and the mixed metaphors, were appropriate: “Blue wave” began, in this election cycle, as a faith-based idea—Democratic activists’ hope that voters’ resentment of Trumpism would ripple and grow into a crashing, crushing eventuality—and that is in some ways what it remained, in the long year leading up to the 2018 U.S. midterms. It became a shorthand for the notion that a surge of blue would wash over the national political landscape: a widespread repudiation of the current political regime that would be, depending on your point of view, either made inevitable or made to collide vainly against the stubborn solidity of a Republican “red wall.”

Prior to the election itself, the blue wave was a metaphor that, even in its semantic

MARCOS BAZILIO
Brazil
Local time: 20:10
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não acontecem por acaso


Explanation:
não acontecem por acaso

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Nick Taylor
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agree  Ana Vozone
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agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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agree  Mario Freitas:
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wave around in the blue
não ocorrem / acontecem / se dão aleatoriamente no vácuo


Explanation:
Suponho que estejam falando de uma ação social ou política.

wave around: To move up and down, back and forth freely or haphazardly
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/wave around

Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 16:10
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Álvaro Micheletti: Creio que vácuo é bastante adequado, pois dialoga bem com a preocupação frequente na literatura antropológica sobre o contexto de relações em que as ações estão imbricadas
16 hrs
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