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šišati ovce

English translation: Sheep are for fleecing

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Serbian term or phrase:šišati ovce
English translation:Sheep are for fleecing
Entered by: Bogdan Petrovic

15:06 Jul 24, 2013
Serbian to English translations [PRO]
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Serbian term or phrase: šišati ovce
"Političari pljačkaju narod kao što je moj deda šišao ovce".

"Ovde su za šišanje".
Bogdan Petrovic
Serbia
Local time: 06:50
Sheep are for fleecing
Explanation:
Sheep are for fleecing

THE FLEECE-ME STATE

Editor -- If Proposition 26 passes and Proposition 28 fails, California will clearly be ready for a new state motto: Sheep Are for Fleecing. (In Latin, naturally, but as a victim of California's public primary and secondary education, I can't do the rendering myself.) Think about it. Prop. 26, under the guise of somehow making schools better for the kids, would allow homeowners to be taxed and taxed and taxed as the result of a bare majority, rather than the prevailing two-thirds majority vote. Pass it, start to fleece homeowner sheep. Prop. 28 would repeal the monumentally unjust Prop. 10, which, under the guise of somehow making early childhood better for the kids, allowed smokers to be taxed and taxed and taxed and taxed and taxed. Don't pass it, continue to fleece smoker sheep. At least Prop. 26's backers aren't as stupid and/or as hypocritical as Prop. 10's. They're not tying their ostensibly Good Cause's revenues to a source they're simultaneously striv ing to eliminate, after all. Or maybe they're just waiting until their sheep are in the fold before they start their anti-homeowning ads, a la the Prop. 10-funded anti-smoking ads. Which flock's next? "For the kids," of course.
MICHAEL A. PADLIPSKY

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Note added at 30 mins (2013-07-24 15:36:20 GMT)
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[http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/letterstoeditor/article/LETTER...]
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Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:50
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4 +1Sheep are for fleecing
Daryo
4Sheep to be sheared.
Nikoleta Salak


  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
ovce su za šišanje
Sheep are for fleecing


Explanation:
Sheep are for fleecing

THE FLEECE-ME STATE

Editor -- If Proposition 26 passes and Proposition 28 fails, California will clearly be ready for a new state motto: Sheep Are for Fleecing. (In Latin, naturally, but as a victim of California's public primary and secondary education, I can't do the rendering myself.) Think about it. Prop. 26, under the guise of somehow making schools better for the kids, would allow homeowners to be taxed and taxed and taxed as the result of a bare majority, rather than the prevailing two-thirds majority vote. Pass it, start to fleece homeowner sheep. Prop. 28 would repeal the monumentally unjust Prop. 10, which, under the guise of somehow making early childhood better for the kids, allowed smokers to be taxed and taxed and taxed and taxed and taxed. Don't pass it, continue to fleece smoker sheep. At least Prop. 26's backers aren't as stupid and/or as hypocritical as Prop. 10's. They're not tying their ostensibly Good Cause's revenues to a source they're simultaneously striv ing to eliminate, after all. Or maybe they're just waiting until their sheep are in the fold before they start their anti-homeowning ads, a la the Prop. 10-funded anti-smoking ads. Which flock's next? "For the kids," of course.
MICHAEL A. PADLIPSKY

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Note added at 30 mins (2013-07-24 15:36:20 GMT)
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[http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/letterstoeditor/article/LETTER...]

Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:50
Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 20
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agree  zoe1: fleecing the sheep- uguglajte
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Sheep to be sheared.


Explanation:
If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.


    Reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/quotes
Nikoleta Salak
Local time: 06:50
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Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in Serbo-CroatSerbo-Croat
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