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Translation = Turkish - English, Please
1.       yilgun-7
1326 posts
 07 Nov 2007 Wed 02:25 am

Bir pire için yorgan yakmak

2.       Norae
27 posts
 07 Nov 2007 Wed 02:48 am

In English I believe it is like the idiom "to cut off one's nose to spite one's face" which is along the lines of hurting yourself in order to punish someone else. However I'm not 100% positive on this as I always have a hard time with idioms.

3.       yilgun-7
1326 posts
 07 Nov 2007 Wed 06:42 pm

Norea,
Thank you very much for
your "literary translations".

4.       Pizza
0 posts
 07 Nov 2007 Wed 06:45 pm

It means, stopping someone for being so proud and conceited.

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