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Thanks for the link, anepipsogos, and for SBE’s succinct explanation of “τα πιάσαμε τα λεφτά μας". BTW: I saw on line a minute ago the translation into English of σώθηκες. Here is a transcript of a Konstantina clip with the Valleyspeak ‘not’, which apparently is still alive and kicking in...

Thanks very much, m_a_a! Very useful translations. I’ve spent a couple of hours this afternoon doing a whole page of notes on the idiomatic answers given to my thread. I hadn’t come across “τα πιάσαμε τα λεφτά μας", only the positive όλα τα λεφτά. I gather from slang.gr that its a politer...

Thanks to all for their contributions! I played around with the uses of σιγά (να) μην but, despite several articles on them, I am still not sure about the correct uses of this idiom, which seem rather complex.

No SBE. Apparently, it originated in the late 19th century, particularly within British Cockney slang and literature, becoming highly popularized in the late Victorian and early Edwardian.eras It was commonly used in London in the 1880s and 1890s to negate a positive statement that was...

What is the best Greek phrase or words for this very common English idiom in slang, when added to an ironical statement? Here are a couple of examples:- -Person A: “She is a woman of low morals.” -Person B: “You are the paragon of virtue, I don’t think!” -Person A: "I think I'll use my phone...

In the words of the bard but here applied to me ‘to dumb forgetfulness a prey’. Thanks, cougr!

Thanks so much, Nickel! It seems that the form ξουρίζω and ξυρίζω mean the same. Long-standing niggle sorted at last! Is the gesture used much nowadays?

Something has been bothering me for a long time that happened the first time I went to Greece with a school party. It happened in Athens when we were crossing a busy road. I was so occupied with getting the pupils across that I bumped into a woman and said συγνώμη. As far as I remember what...

Thanks for all this, both of you! To adapt a common English expression, you ask a silly question an you get n excellent set of answers! Thanks to all who have given answers or made observations. I am indebted to real specialists in Greek and in the jargon of motor enthusiasts who tolerate my...

I thought it was my mistake. You are very kind to own up! 😊

He could indeed rename it after his conquest MAGA d’ Oscar since he deserves some proper award after his failed request for a Nobel peace prize. His artistic performance in blowing his own TRUMPet could hardly be bettered.

A better word than personification’ is personality.

The register is surely that of personification. Once you make a thing have the characteristics of a person, how would you describe such a person? Of a car, ‘driving dynamics’ refers to how a car behaves, handles, and responds to what the driver asks of it: δλδ. steering, braking and...

Sorry I meant ‘linguistic chameleon’ not ‘phenomenon’.

Thanks, cougr! I like the phrase 'linguistic chameleon'. As for the spice girls, there is little doubt in my mind that their collective name, (originally 'Touch' but changed to The Spice Girls' because of the fact that another artist had that name) alluded to the nursery rhyme 'what are little...

I will enter here a message which I had deleted on the grounds that it may be considered contentious and a bit over the top. It read as follows but after SBE’s characteristically terse and pithy remark perhaps what I wrote previously may be relevant. I wrote this:- “Point taken, cougr, but in...

Gotta in typical advertising manner wanted to give the Porsche Cayenne a personality: spicy, fiery and immediately responsive. In these politically correct days you have to put this into Greek sans sexism or racial stereotype. I would perhaps attribute this to the Italian male persona but...

Thanks, SBE! Nobody knows where the English phrase comes from. Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catchphrases suggests it may be a translation of the German phrase Hals- und Beinbruch (neck and leg break), a term of encouragement for aviators in WWI, which later spread to the stage. Partridge also...

Thanks, anepipsogos! For anepipsogos, His rebetiko:- The Impeccable on the Immoral THE FLOWER OF IRREVERENCE I fathomed out the hubble-bubble which produces quickly straightaway swiftly, specifically [rimitative of bubbles!] a cloud of rebetik smoke. I didn’t mean to be embarrassed and ran...