15:25 Jun 6, 2013 |
German to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Edwin Miles Germany Local time: 21:59 | ||||||
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How about a couple more? Explanation: warming the bench (this is from American baseball) doing his time (as if in prison) paying his dues (implies everyone has to go through something like this to get ahead) all I can think of at this time. |
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pen pushing Explanation: In this context I think the equivalent might be being a pen pusher, which can also mean not doing much other than sit at the desk ;-) Hope this helps -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 44 mins (2013-06-06 16:10:02 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- haha, you're right of course. Quill pushing is excellent though, I think :-) |
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