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Idioms : English and Turkish
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04 Oct 2011 Tue 08:18 am |
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My favourite is
Aşağı tükürsem sakal, yukarı tükürsem bıyık
´If I split down, beard, if I split up, moustache.´ It´s used about a no-win situation. Maybe my thinking is too visual, but it always makes me smile.
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Oh, I´m sorry. I just noticed there was a post about it already.
Edited (10/4/2011) by Abla
Edited (10/4/2011) by Abla
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04 Oct 2011 Tue 11:22 am |
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"Geçti Bor´un pazarı, sür eşeğini Niğde´ye"
Literally it means "Bor´s (a small district of Niğde) market/bazaar is over, drive your donkey to Niğde (a province)" and it is used when it is too late for something. I also find this expression funny, it is mostly used to make fun of someone.
I was wondering if there is a similar expression in English. One can say "too little too late" but actually we don´t talk about being little in this case, but only being way too late 
One English expression is ´missed the boat´ if it´s a missed opportunity. ´I/you/he/we missed the boat´ but its not really used to make fun of someone.
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05 Feb 2012 Sun 03:49 pm |
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Yılanın başını küçükken ezeceksin - Kill it before it grows
Is there such a saying in English?
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07 Feb 2012 Tue 03:55 pm |
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Yılanın başını küçükken ezeceksin - Kill it before it grows
Is there such a saying in English?
"To nip something in the bud" ... like the Turkish it implies that the thing you are stopping is a negative, unwanted thing.
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22 Mar 2012 Thu 09:46 am |
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Here´s another similar saying:
Son gülen iyi güler = He who laughs last laughs best
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03 Apr 2012 Tue 10:44 am |
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Sert kayaya çarpmak - to hit a hard rock
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03 Apr 2012 Tue 03:24 pm |
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One English expression is ´missed the boat´ if it´s a missed opportunity. ´I/you/he/we missed the boat´ but its not really used to make fun of someone.
Another similar pair:
To shut the stable door after the horse has bolted
At alını çoktan Üsküdar´ı geçmiş
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03 Apr 2012 Tue 03:24 pm |
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Sert kayaya çarpmak - to hit a hard rock
we say, "to hit a brick wall"
guess our saying was invented by a city-dweller, the Turkish by a villager
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20 Jul 2012 Fri 08:02 am |
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Another similar one:
Ateş olmayan yerden duman çıkmaz - Where there´s smoke, there´s fire.
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20 Jul 2012 Fri 10:32 am |
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A picture is worth a thousand words A picture can often get a message across much better than the best verbal description.
Bir musibet bin nasihatten iyidir.
One accident, punishment, disease is more effective than a thousand words.
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20 Jul 2012 Fri 10:37 am |
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My favourite is
Aşağı tükürsem sakal, yukarı tükürsem bıyık
´If I split down, beard, if I split up, moustache.´ It´s used about a no-win situation.
İki ucu pis değnek.
There is a dirty stick in both sizes you have to hold, in any case you get dirt in your hands!
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