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In the song of 1975 πάμε για δουλειά (post daeman #2 Tuesday) this ‘strange’ phrase appears whose meaning is obscure, even to ‘Man! I...

Why am I not surprised that it's often left untranslated and untransliterated in Greek articles and reports?

+1 Σπάζω πλάκα (with or without the article) sounds, well… toilsome! As if you're breaking some kind of slab! :D Also, η Εξοχότητά σας...

A very full answer. Thanks for all the trouble. Only a beer! Perhaps here a double whisky…😝

As always thanks both to Δούκα and m_a_a, and to Earion for the long note. I was led astray in the Duke’s title because in Britain...

Thanks on both counts, Δούκα. Traditionally the ‘cap’ which the judge wore in sentencing someone to death was called ‘the tricorn’. It’s...

Sorry, Duke, I know exactly what you meant, fool that I am! Of course, the judge used to break a pen before announcing a death sentence...

Η Εξοχότητα σας, νιώθω ότι σπάζετε την πλάκα, αλλά δεν καταλάβαινα τις αποχρώσεις των φράσεων ή «φόρεσα μαύρη μαντήλα¨ ή ¨σπάω το στυλό...

I never thought that my question would spark off so much scholarly discussion! For which I am deeply indebted. It has helped me to see...

All these and more, not least of what pontios was possibly alluding to ie. creativity and imaginative flair - though it would be a...

Φαντασία, ίσως, για το flair? Έχω ακόμα τη φλόγα, τη φαντασία στο παιχνίδι μου, την ποιότητα και το κίνητρο να συνεχίσω???

έχω ακόμα τη φλόγα, την «τρέλα», την ποιότητα και το κίνητρο να συνεχίσω might be worth considering... And on that note, I'm wishing...

Thanks, cougr! I thought I had put forward my suggestion that the ‘offending’ words might mean ‘the hour of 1 (a.m.) rushes by’, since...

That’s partly why I used φινέτσα. The word ταλέντο was is one of the newspaper articles. It seems a trifle arrogant to say ‘I have...

Thanks, cougr. All grist to the mill!😀