Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
I'm trying to save your hard-boiled hide
Portuguese translation:
estou tentando salvar essa sua pele casca grossa
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Mario Freitas
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English term
Brazil
hard-boiled hide
English to Portuguese
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Spider-Man is trying to save J. J. Jameson.
JJ Let go off me, wall-crawler! You're not laying your filthy hands on me!
SM: What are you, Jameson ... nuts? I'm trying to save your hard-boiled hide, remember?
JJ Let go off me, wall-crawler! You're not laying your filthy hands on me!
SM: What are you, Jameson ... nuts? I'm trying to save your hard-boiled hide, remember?
Proposed translations
(Portuguese)
| 3 | (estou tentando salvar essa sua) pele casca grossa, seu cabeça dura! |
Mario Freitas
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| 2 | see meanings |
Taña Dalglish
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Dec 15, 2015 20:31: Taña Dalglish changed "Language pair" from "English" to "English to Portuguese"
Dec 28, 2015 02:34: Mario Freitas Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Jamaica
Native in English
Specializes in field
Jamaica
Translating the Ideas Behind the Words
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 2 more.
see meanings
See explanation: SM was attempting to save Jameson, a hard-headed, cynical person from getting into danger, or bringing harm to himself
hard-boiled
adjective
2.
(of a person) tough and cynical.
"a hard-boiled Hollywood producer"
synonyms: cynical, tough, hardened, hard-bitten, hard-headed, callous, as hard as nails, unsentimental, lacking sentiment, world-weary, case-hardened, toughened by experience;
save one's hide
phrase of hide
1.
escape from danger or difficulty.
hard-boiled
adjective
2.
(of a person) tough and cynical.
"a hard-boiled Hollywood producer"
synonyms: cynical, tough, hardened, hard-bitten, hard-headed, callous, as hard as nails, unsentimental, lacking sentiment, world-weary, case-hardened, toughened by experience;
save one's hide
phrase of hide
1.
escape from danger or difficulty.
Note from asker:
| I am not a native English speaker. I would like to rewrite that sentence. I would help me to find words in my native language. Thanks! |
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
&
Portuguese
Brazil
32 years engineering/law/contracts
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
, Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
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