Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
Dar água pela barba
English translation:
(colloquial) it\'s doing my head in
Added to glossary by
aishu
Mar 29, 2013 16:00
11 yrs ago
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Portuguese term
Dar água pela barba
Portuguese to English
Other
Other
expressão idomática
Boa tarde
Alguém poder-me-ia ajudar a traduzir esta expressão do PT para Inglês?
"Dar água pela barba"
Muito obrigada
Alguém poder-me-ia ajudar a traduzir esta expressão do PT para Inglês?
"Dar água pela barba"
Muito obrigada
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | (colloquial) it's doing my head in |
Nick Taylor
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| 3 +4 | to be very difficult |
Mark Thompson
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| 4 | (this is) making me desperate |
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
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| 4 | It's driving me crazy |
Marlene Curtis
|
Proposed translations
3 hrs
Nick Taylor
Native in English
Portuguese to English, English to Portug
Native in: English 
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
Related KudoZ points
:
121
Selected
(colloquial) it's doing my head in
(colloquial) it's doing my head in
Example sentence:
to make someone feel confused and unhappy: Getting up at four o'clock every morning was doing my head in. I've been trying to make sense of all these figures and it's doing my head in.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Muito obrigada. Para o contexto esta é a melhor opção."
+4
6 mins
to be very difficult
Without more context, I can only give you this very general solution, which perhaps you can adapt to your context.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
oxygen4u
: :) http://www.casota.org/expressions/expression/index.php?id=55...
30 mins
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| agree |
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
: ou "to cause trouble"...
30 mins
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| agree |
JRita
2 hrs
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| agree |
Alcinda Marinho
3 hrs
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1 hr
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Norway
Native in Portuguese
Norway
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Engineer:Oil&Gas/Electron/Finan/Law/HSEQ
Native in: Norwegian , Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Norwegian to Portuguese, Portuguese to Norwegian, and 19 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
104
(this is) making me desperate
Depois das explicações dadas, sugiro:
https://www.google.com.br/search?hl=pt-BR&q="this is making ...
https://www.google.com.br/search?hl=pt-BR&q="this is making ...
1 hr
Marlene Curtis
United States
United States
Native in Portuguese
&
English
United States
Marlene Curtis
Native in: Portuguese , English
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
Related KudoZ points
:
583
It's driving me crazy
De acordo com o contexto.
Discussion
uma delas diz: "eu já conhecia este assunto; esta-me a dar agua pela barba. istó é uma loucura"
É o unico contexto que posso dar
Obrigada a todos pelos vossos contributos