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What about sepet (basket) as a verb: sepletlemek?
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30 Jan 2007 Tue 04:38 pm |
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What about sepet (basket) as a verb: sepletlemek?
...to discard
...to fire (from employment)
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30 Jan 2007 Tue 04:51 pm |
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Quoting illusion: What about sepet (basket) as a verb: sepletlemek?
...to discard
...to fire (from employment) |
Sepet ; its a object ( basket )
Sepetlemek ;its a verb its turkish idiom, to drive away (from employment or house etc)
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30 Jan 2007 Tue 06:12 pm |
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The most similar English idiom seems to be "to give the sack". And the origin is obviosly the same, for the meaning is clear: "Gather your things into your sack/basket and go, so that my eyes never see you again!" 
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30 Jan 2007 Tue 07:32 pm |
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hi,
by the way a similar idiom to "sepetlemek" is "başından savmak".
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30 Jan 2007 Tue 10:53 pm |
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30 Jan 2007 Tue 10:55 pm |
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Quoting illusion: in English we have: "to shit can"
"He was shit canned." |
Do we? I never heard it before 
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30 Jan 2007 Tue 11:00 pm |
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Well, we do in mid-coast Maine; perhaps it's colloquial.
I didn't think it was uncommon.
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30 Jan 2007 Tue 11:02 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x: Quoting illusion: in English we have: "to shit can"
"He was shit canned." |
Do we? I never heard it before |
Not in everyday use in Scotland either
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30 Jan 2007 Tue 11:05 pm |
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So it's 'sacked' in England & Scotland? Nothing more colorful?
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31 Jan 2007 Wed 12:32 am |
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nothing more colourful in australia either
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