Feb 18, 2010 08:39
14 yrs ago
Turkish term
Works in: Bulgarian to English
ağızını burnunu kırmamak
Turkish to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Idiom
Kibarlık etmiş. Ağızını burnunu kırmamış - okumuş insan tabii. Ayıylan ayı olmuyor.
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6 hrs
Erkan Dogan
United States
United States
Native in Turkish
United States
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail...
Native in: Turkish
Works in: English to Turkish, Turkish to English
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36
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smash him/her on (in) the face
"in the face" or "on the face", both are used. For examples, http://smash-him-in-the-face.blogspot.com/ and http://crueltysux.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html. There are many more if you search the idiom on google.
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Note added at 6 hrs (2010-02-18 15:21:29 GMT)
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of course, "smash someone in (on) the face" is "ağzını burnunu kırmak". For "ağzını burnunu kırmamak", you will rephrase it as "not to smash ...." for your example, "Obviously, he was polite and did not smash him in the face - an educated person of course. He doesn't (do/seek) tit for tat."
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Note added at 15 hrs (2010-02-19 00:31:48 GMT)
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BTW, smash "her" would probably not as much possible as it would be the case for "him" :)))
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Note added at 6 hrs (2010-02-18 15:21:29 GMT)
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of course, "smash someone in (on) the face" is "ağzını burnunu kırmak". For "ağzını burnunu kırmamak", you will rephrase it as "not to smash ...." for your example, "Obviously, he was polite and did not smash him in the face - an educated person of course. He doesn't (do/seek) tit for tat."
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Note added at 15 hrs (2010-02-19 00:31:48 GMT)
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BTW, smash "her" would probably not as much possible as it would be the case for "him" :)))
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Comment: "Thank you all for the nice ideas!"
+1
4 mins
Fatih Mehmet Şen
Türkiye
Türkiye
Native in Turkish
&
English
Türkiye
No More Translationese
Native in: Turkish 
, English
Works in: Turkish to English, English to Turkish, German to Turkish, and 1 more.
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8
give sb a knuckle sandwich
8 hrs
Turkish term (edited):
ağızını burnunu kırmak
to beat somebody to a pulp
- to beat somebody to a pulp
- to lay into somebody
- to lay into somebody
9 hrs
Alp Berker
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Advanced work in IT + Social Sciences
Native in: English
Works in: Turkish to English, Azerbaijani to English, English, and 4 more.
didn't break his/her face
Another alternative
9 hrs
Salih YILDIRIM
United States
United States
Native in Turkish
Works in field
United States
Meticulous, scrupulous, curious work!
Native in: Turkish (Variant: Standard-İstanbul )
Works in: Turkish to English, English to Turkish, French to Turkish, and 1 more.
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16
Not to turn and rend somebody
I'd employ this phrase.
1 day 8 hrs
Halil Ibrahim Tutuncuoglu "Бёcäטsع Լîfe's cômplicåtعd eñøugh"
Türkiye
Türkiye
Native in Turkish
Works in field
Türkiye
Halil Ibrahim Tutuncuoglu "Бёcäטsع Լîfe's cômplicåtعd eñøugh"
"The best is yet to come."
Native in: Turkish
Works in: Turkish to English, English to Turkish
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8
beat black and blue
genelde kullanılmakta
244 days
not to give a beating
bana en yakın gelen çevirisi..
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