Mar 16, 2005 10:07
19 yrs ago
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Greek term
Πάσσαλος πασσάλω εκρούεται / Πάσσαλος πασσάλου εκκρούεται
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http://www.phileleftheros.com.cy/main/main.asp?gid=391&id=27...
http://www.bhma.net/archive/2001/1221/38.asp
http://www.phileleftheros.com.cy/main/main.asp?gid=391&id=27...
http://www.bhma.net/archive/2001/1221/38.asp
Proposed translations
(English)
3 +3 | Diamond cut diamond | Andras Mohay (X) |
4 +1 | Needs must when the devil drives | Maria Karra |
4 +1 | fight fire with fire | ggrozoma |
3 +1 | meet force with force | Dylan Edwards |
2 +1 | Evil treats evil | Vicky Papaprodromou |
Proposed translations
+3
7 mins
Greek term (edited):
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Diamond cut diamond
Πάσσαλος πασσάλω [δοτική του οργάνου] εκ-κρούεται
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Graded automatically based on peer agreement."
+1
6 mins
Greek term (edited):
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Needs must when the devil drives
Needs must when the devil drives
Reference:
+1
9 mins
Greek term (edited):
�������� ������ ���������
Evil treats evil
πάσσαλος πασσάλω εκκρούεται = (ο πάσσαλος με πάσσαλο βγαίνει) = το κακόαντιμετωπίζεται με το κακό, το γαϊδούρι θέλει ενάμισι γαϊδούρι
Χάνεις τον καιρό σου αντιμετωπίζοντάς τον με το καλό.Πάσσαλοςπασσάλω εκκρούεται.
http://sfr.ee.teiath.gr/htmSELIDES/Technology/Orogramma/doti...
Αν και δεν είναι ό,τι καλύτερο, θάλεγα για αρχή:
(Doing) evil brings evil
It's no use doing him good
Evil treats evil
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Note added at 16 mins (2005-03-16 10:23:42 GMT)
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Ή και \"evil against evil\" αντίστοιχα αλλά αντίθετα προς το \"Good Against Evil\".
Χάνεις τον καιρό σου αντιμετωπίζοντάς τον με το καλό.Πάσσαλοςπασσάλω εκκρούεται.
http://sfr.ee.teiath.gr/htmSELIDES/Technology/Orogramma/doti...
Αν και δεν είναι ό,τι καλύτερο, θάλεγα για αρχή:
(Doing) evil brings evil
It's no use doing him good
Evil treats evil
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Note added at 16 mins (2005-03-16 10:23:42 GMT)
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Ή και \"evil against evil\" αντίστοιχα αλλά αντίθετα προς το \"Good Against Evil\".
+1
1 hr
Greek term (edited):
�������� ������ �������� / �������� ������� ���������
meet force with force
Suggestions:
oppose force with force
force must be met with force
Lots of Google refs
"sometimes it is lawful to oppose force with force"
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Note added at 2 hrs 3 mins (2005-03-16 12:10:29 GMT)
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I only had time for a quick look at your example, but thought something on these lines might be appropriate here.
Instead of meeting force with force, we use strategies to unite opposing forces.
One way is to join them together into a spiral motion. ...
www.heartaikido.com/faq.html
The phrase \"meeting force with force\" comes up in contexts from politics to martial arts, as you\'ll see if you search for phrases like \"policy of meeting force with force\" etc.
oppose force with force
force must be met with force
Lots of Google refs
"sometimes it is lawful to oppose force with force"
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Note added at 2 hrs 3 mins (2005-03-16 12:10:29 GMT)
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I only had time for a quick look at your example, but thought something on these lines might be appropriate here.
Instead of meeting force with force, we use strategies to unite opposing forces.
One way is to join them together into a spiral motion. ...
www.heartaikido.com/faq.html
The phrase \"meeting force with force\" comes up in contexts from politics to martial arts, as you\'ll see if you search for phrases like \"policy of meeting force with force\" etc.
+1
9 hrs
Greek term (edited):
�������� ������ �������� / �������� ������� ���������
fight fire with fire
fight fire with fire, use fire to fight fire, it takes fire to fight fire
http://spam.gunters.org/archive/2003/12/01/an-anti-spam-mani...
Perhaps it is time to use similar tools to what they use in order to break their business model. Use fire to fight fire.
http://www.twbookmark.com/books/29/044661503X/chapter_excerp...
You might say a vaccine uses fire to fight fire: A little bit of the pathogen is specially prepared and usually injected into the body so it can help fight off any "wild," or naturally acquired, versions of the disease.
http://eyeonit.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/14...
Services firm decides to fight fire with fire
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/18097
You can't fight fire with fire…
…violence does not solve violence.
or “one nail drives out another”, “nail drives out nail”:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/L...
…which drove out one commander with another as nail drives out nail.
http://www.fullbooks.com/Pamela-Vol-II-5.html
"No, but it was necessary that one
nail should drive out another; for thou'dst been repining still, had
not Mr. Murray been _turned over_ to thee.”
http://spam.gunters.org/archive/2003/12/01/an-anti-spam-mani...
Perhaps it is time to use similar tools to what they use in order to break their business model. Use fire to fight fire.
http://www.twbookmark.com/books/29/044661503X/chapter_excerp...
You might say a vaccine uses fire to fight fire: A little bit of the pathogen is specially prepared and usually injected into the body so it can help fight off any "wild," or naturally acquired, versions of the disease.
http://eyeonit.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/14...
Services firm decides to fight fire with fire
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/18097
You can't fight fire with fire…
…violence does not solve violence.
or “one nail drives out another”, “nail drives out nail”:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/L...
…which drove out one commander with another as nail drives out nail.
http://www.fullbooks.com/Pamela-Vol-II-5.html
"No, but it was necessary that one
nail should drive out another; for thou'dst been repining still, had
not Mr. Murray been _turned over_ to thee.”
Peer comment(s):
agree |
stella_fitz (X)
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