Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
to set the curve on something
Portuguese translation:
ser aprovado (em alguma coisa)
English term
Brazil
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Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
to set the curve on something
Please help me! I can't find this expression anywhere!!! :0)
| 4 | ser aprovado (em alguma coisa) |
Maria-Betania Ferreira
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| 4 | passar com distinção em algo |
Artur Jorge Martins
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| I found this... |
felidaevampire
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Dec 10, 2008 18:26: Maria-Betania Ferreira changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/900232">Luana Molena Xavier's</a> old entry - "to set the curve on something"" to ""ser aprovado (em alguma coisa)""
Proposed translations
France
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian) , French
Works in: English to Portuguese, English to French, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
ser aprovado (em alguma coisa)
Three students set the curve last weekend at the Math Competition – the team scored 146 out of 150 points
I set the curve on my Chem test!!! I got a 36/42 and I'm ecstatic!
Portugal
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Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese
passar com distinção em algo
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Reference comments
I found this...
http://oglobo.globo.com/educacao/vestibular/_inc/links.asp?m...
From what I could understand, it means to peek at, trying to cheat from the guy.
Trying to help... :)
| Thank you very much felidaevampire. I couldn't choose your answer as the best one because in the context the best translation was "ser aprovado em algo", ok? Thanks anyway! |
| agree |
Flavia Martins dos Santos
: If you check in Google there are some rferences and they have the sense of cheating or creating a scheme. Take a look.
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That's exactly what I did. It's whence the reference comes from. Sometimes, Google does help! :)
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