ESL Vocabulary and Idioms

Re: Three questions.

JCDenton — Sun, 18 May 2008 06:28:09 GMT

Perfect! Thx

Re: Three questions.

Mister Micawber — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:48:03 GMT

1) You sure made a true believer out of me. = Your action / explanation caused me to believe it.

2) That's as close to a confession as you're gonna get. = He is not going to confess any more clearly.

3) The floor mat's still damp. I think it's just has been detailed. = Detailing is 'the practice of performing an extremely thorough cleaning, polishing and waxing of an automobile, both inside and out, to produce a show-quality level of detail.'

Three questions.

JCDenton — Sat, 17 May 2008 22:02:26 GMT

Hi EF guys,

I just finished the translation of the CSI LV season finale. This time it was really hard...:-((

Can you please help me out with these cases?

1) One man wants to congratulate to another:

I just wanted to congratulate you in person.
You sure made a true believer out of me.

Please, does the last sentence mean = Your confidence caused that I really started to believe in it...??

2) Private investigator was recording the meetings with his clients.
He recorded one of his clients saying that he really want to kill someone.

That PI commented this recording as:
That's as close to a confession as you're gonna get.

Can you please paraphrase that sentence for me? I don't know what's the point..

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3) CSIs found a victim car at the parking lot. That car was clean as a whistle.
One CSI said to this:

The floor mat's still damp. I think it's just has been detailed.

Please, if something has been detailed..(car, floor,...) does it mean that it was just cleaned??? I have never heard the word "detailed" used in this context...

Many thanks in advance for help!

regards

JCD