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fancy fads

English translation: latest fashionable (party) clothes

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English term or phrase:fancy fads
Selected answer:latest fashionable (party) clothes
Entered by: Giordano B (X)

09:24 Aug 16, 2011
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music / Pls explain what "fad" here means
English term or phrase: fancy fads
Nah Neh Nah

I got on the phone and called the girls, said
Meet me down at Curly Pearls, for a
Ney, Nah Neh Nah
In my high-heeled shoes and fancy fads
I ran down the stairs hailed me a cab, going ....
Giordano B (X)
latest fashionable (party) clothes
Explanation:
I really think that the writer made it up. It's not a common expression. I love the song. I remember singing singing along to this song with friends in a car bound for the Algarve in Portugal. (Another, very different, summer!)
Selected response from:

Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 14:25
Grading comment
Thank you, Jenni!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 +6latest fashionable (party) clothes
Jenni Lukac (X)


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
latest fashionable (party) clothes


Explanation:
I really think that the writer made it up. It's not a common expression. I love the song. I remember singing singing along to this song with friends in a car bound for the Algarve in Portugal. (Another, very different, summer!)

Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 14:25
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 32
Grading comment
Thank you, Jenni!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Stephen D: I agree with the meaning. I was just unable to explain it :).
31 mins
  -> Thanks, Steve.
agree  Sarah Jane Webb
52 mins
  -> Greetings and thanks, Sarah.
agree  amarpaul: Seriously Jenni, what *were* you up to? :-)
53 mins
  -> It was hilarious: a car full of people stuck on the 25th of April bridge because of an August truckers' strike- a bourgeois gentleman, girls dying to hit the beach, and the six-year-old son of a communist doctor screaming the PT equivalent of No pasaran!
agree  P.L.F. Persio
7 hrs
  -> Thanks, missdutch. Now I can't this song out of my head!
agree  Jack Dunwell: Good Lord Jenni you are just too s..y for yr clothes
11 hrs
  -> Thanks and Ney, Nah Neh Nah from the Immortal City of Saragossa. Hope the bees are buzzing!
agree  Thuy-PTT (X)
2 days 4 mins
  -> Thanks, Thuy. Have a nice day.
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