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10:43 Dec 15, 2020 |
English to German translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / Idioms | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Yvonne Manuela Meissner Netherlands Local time: 12:20 | ||||||
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4 | (Informationen) aus der Nase ziehen |
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A Jamaican Saying Applied |
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(Informationen) aus der Nase ziehen Explanation: You'd better work with a completely different image/saying instead of using the tongue. Important here is the relaxed way of throwing a comment. It's not the tongue that is the important detail. It's important there has to be a certain effort before getting the information you wanted. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2020-12-15 13:13:46 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://www.wortbedeutung.info/einem_alles_aus_der_Nase_zieh... https://www.wortbedeutung.info/einem_alles_aus_der_Nase_ziehen/ |
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Reference: A Jamaican Saying Applied Reference information: We have an expression in Jamaica about ‘pulling tongue’. When you say something to me designed to solicit ‘secret’ information I would say; “Don’t try to pull my tongue.” When I want to get secret information from you I will try to pull your tongue. Online when you write and want a lot of responses, you have to select the kind of article which would get the greatest ‘blow back’. Ulsterman did it with his ‘White House Insider’. https://virily.com/technology/a-jamaican-saying-applied/ |
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