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Thanks, nickel! Sorry about the late reply.

Thanks, cougr!

Why not το πρες μπουτόν; I think I heard that in our Greek small talk class when we were learning clothing terms (not my most memorable topic of interest!).

Is there a greek equivalent for the semi-humorous (or sometimes sarcastic) English expression ‘as you do’ which is used after doing something completely weird or random, as if it is normal. It has become very common in recent years. Would κλασικά do? Here is a collection of examples:- I spent...

Thanks, Duke, for the enlightening exposition of this song and, in particular, for the lyrics. It seems that after all it was worth asking for help 👍.

Thanks, cougr! At least I heard the word aright but the word ‘coconut’ never occurred to me! Very apt for this magic island and well suited to the vocabulary of a pirate. «Να κομματιαστούν τα ύφαλά μου» ή <<να διαλυθεί το καράβι μου κομμάτια!» as AI translates the the typical piratical...

In the lovely child’s song η δεσποίνις χελώνα, ai 1:19 minutes approximately, Captain Crab greats Miss Turtle with what seems to be the above words but I can’t make any sense of what seems to be the ρίδα word. It is obviously a simple and common word but sometimes so am I! Can anyone help? Here...

As often in the old, ‘to dumb forgetfulness a prey’/ βορά στη βουβή λήθη…..Thanks, cougr, (and anepipsogos)!

And φυσάει without the τα means ‘he is gorgeous’. See

Thanks so much for the translation, Nickel. This is the sort of answer I could never get from any dictionary, AI or google translate. I am learning spoken Greek as fast as I can, hence anything I see that I wish to find a proper translation of has me scurrying to lexilogia!

This paragraph is from an article in a Sunday British newspaper about a woman’s binge drinking and the struggle to give the habit up:- “This is what happened. The whoosh, the roller coaster, the incalculable drop if I stopped. The next day terrible, despairing gloom. The intense rush and...

@cougr:- As always with Sarant’s scholarship, the article you referred me too was fascinating from start to finish!🙃

I always appreciate your expertise. Thanks also for your link to Sarant’s article!

Thanks, cougr. It is one off the two trendy terms to come from Cornell University. The other is ‘empathy’ in its modern sense of ‘to stand in someone's shoes’.and not in its older sense of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects, δλδ. the ‘pathetic fallacy’. The late Charlie Kirk would...

Its etymology is obvious but here is a definition:- “Coined by Kate Manne, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, in 2017 through her book, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, himpathy refers to the disproportionate sympathy extended to a male perpetrator — especially those with...

Thanks to all! I didn’t know I had been guilty of intrasentiential code-mixing, cougr, but clearly I seem to be a pioneer: a first on lexilogia.gr!! What a CV now I have!…..”I am also ο πρώτος ενδοπροτασιακός μετατροπέας κωδίκων on an outstanding Greek language website”. Σχέδον αμέσως έγινα...

Thanks, Δούκα, and AoratiMelani! I liked particularly the play on the Greek word παίζω.

With all this present talk in the UK of whether or when Keir Starmer will resign, a parallel was drawn by a political historian on the BBC’s radio 4 this morning between what Harold Wilson, a former Labour premier, said when he knew that many Labour MPs (and many in MI5 as well) were plotting to...

Thanks, cougr. The only Greek phrase I could think of προφανώς αυτοί ήταν με το ένα πόδι έξω από την πόρτα: 'with one leg out (of the door', in other words, ‘half-way to leaving/resigning' but that seems to ignore the element of shoddy work before their retirement. But in the idiom, I don’t...

This is a common British idiom used metaphorically to describe the state of elation, carelessness, or reduced productivity felt when someone is nearing the end of a difficult, unpleasant, or long-term obligation. I would like an idiomatic word or phrase which I can use in this context:- “I just...