بله و اشرب ميته

English translation: is as useless as a chocolate teapot

11:00 Dec 9, 2020
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
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Arabic term or phrase: بله و اشرب ميته
اهم حاجة علشان تنجح انك تدفع رشوة، التزامك ده بله و اشرب ميته
Khaled Mohammed
English translation:is as useless as a chocolate teapot
Explanation:
It means "totally useless, and here are two equivalent idioms in English:
is as useless as a chocolate teapot
Or: is as much use as a chocolate teapot

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6a/a9/7f/6aa97faf80d7a6156e9709af2...

https://jonathandaviswm.com/brexit-economic-report-is-as-use...

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Question...
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Ayman Massoud
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2is as useless as a chocolate teapot
Ayman Massoud
5is good for nothing
Omnia Abdelgani
5Stick that in your pipe and smoke it/I couldn't care less/see more below
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4If you don't like it, you can lump it
Nahla Elfeky


  

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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
is as useless as a chocolate teapot


Explanation:
It means "totally useless, and here are two equivalent idioms in English:
is as useless as a chocolate teapot
Or: is as much use as a chocolate teapot

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6a/a9/7f/6aa97faf80d7a6156e9709af2...

https://jonathandaviswm.com/brexit-economic-report-is-as-use...

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Question...


Ayman Massoud
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agree  Linda Al-Bairmani: I like this one
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agree  Youssef Chabat
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
is good for nothing


Explanation:
Or you can check:
https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/useless

Omnia Abdelgani
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Stick that in your pipe and smoke it/I couldn't care less/see more below


Explanation:
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it
I couldn't care less
I don't give a hoot about this

and last but not least the textual translation of the same which gives no sense to the English readers but we have to translate it anyway : "soak it and drink its water"

All the aforementioned had been discussed long time ago in this forum so it is not my credit to be honest
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/263823/english-e

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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
If you don't like it, you can lump it


Explanation:
Figuratively speaking when you don't like a situation, you accept it as if you are eating something very big and could not swallow it.

Example sentence(s):
  • People say like it or lump it to mean that you have to accept a situation even if you do not like it. This is the way our system works: like it or lump it.

    https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/
Nahla Elfeky
Egypt
Local time: 08:04
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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