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1.       bod
5999 posts
 11 Dec 2008 Thu 11:26 am

I´m starting a thread for posting slang - originally suggested by teaschip.......

 

Post some slang here along with the literal translation if there is one and what it means in the slang context.    This works both ways - Turkish slang translated to English or English slang translated to Turkish.   Or alternatively, if you can´t translate it........just an explanation of what it really means.

 

2.       bod
5999 posts
 11 Dec 2008 Thu 11:28 am

OK - I´ll start this off with one of the few bits of Turkish slang that  know........

 

kafam güzeldi

literal translation - my head was beautiful

slang meaning - I was drunk

 

 

3.       thehandsom
7403 posts
 11 Dec 2008 Thu 11:48 am

I love this thread..

 

AÐZININ ÝÇÝNE DÜÞMEK: dropping into someone´s mouth..

It is used to in cases:

-to like someone very much ; to do anything to be close to her/him

-listening to a person admiringly

 

4.       bod
5999 posts
 11 Dec 2008 Thu 12:35 pm

An English saying.........

to hit the sack

 

has nothing to do with sacks.......

it means:

to go to bed - yataða girmek

 

5.       Daydreamer
3743 posts
 11 Dec 2008 Thu 01:40 pm

The idiom hit the road has nothing to do with being aggressive towards infrastructure. It means to depart, yola koyulmak

6.       libralady
5152 posts
 11 Dec 2008 Thu 03:09 pm

"Kick up the a**e" means "to get someone to do something" in other words they are lazy

 

"Have you got an eye full?"  means "why are you staring at me"?

7.       TheAenigma
5001 posts
 11 Dec 2008 Thu 03:13 pm

It´s raining cats and dogs:  Means it is raining very heavily!

 

Sorry I don´t know how to translate it to Turkish

 

8.       CandyCanes
59 posts
 11 Dec 2008 Thu 03:18 pm

in Turkish slang, -yorum sometimes becomes -yom (:

e.g; Ben seni seviyorum becomes: Ben seni Seviyom.

That´s about all the slang I know x)

9.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 11 Dec 2008 Thu 03:33 pm

 

Quoting CandyCanes

in Turkish slang, -yorum sometimes becomes -yom (:

e.g; Ben seni seviyorum becomes: Ben seni Seviyom.

That´s about all the slang I know x)

 

that`s not slang, in the eastern accents, -yorum becomes -yom or -yim, so that`s something dealing with accents.

10.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 11 Dec 2008 Thu 03:35 pm

 

Quoting Daydreamer

The idiom hit the road has nothing to do with being aggressive towards infrastructure. It means to depart, yola koyulmak

 

we use the same idiom in Turkish; "yollara vurmak"

 

 

 

 

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