Hello, the passage in bold feels a bit weird to me. Shouldn't there be an article 'a' before the 'spilling-over'? thanks Lenny Translation, when practiced by relatively bilingual individuals but especially

Dear all, below is a sentence I was asked to translate and I'm intrigued whether an 'or' would fit better in the place of that last 'and' (before the 'idioms') I don' t suppose it terribly matters, but I am a

Would someone know the equivalent in English of the French idiom "un colosse aux pieds d'argile" ? Thanks for helping!

Is 'born to live' an idiom? No, an idiom is an expression that by convention means something different than what would be expected from a literal translation. Example: 'John kicked the bucket' sounds like he simply

Hi guys, I finally found some time to finish my "for fun" translation of the episode of Monk. I have just one problem. It's from the end part of the great and funny story where Mr.Monk figured out the case of dead of the

Here is the stanza : But all that's left is a place dark and lonely A terraced house in a mean street back of town Becomes a shrine when I think of you only Just two up two down. My question is : what does the line in bold mean ? I would be

Hi Fandorin and thank you for the example. So the meaning is quite different than what I thought. With the same meaning can I use the expression: If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys? Lalneagra Hi Lalneagra, I've never heard the

Hi guys, I just finished an translation of one episode of the BBC show called "Cooked". It's a very interesting show from the England where one UK cook named Justin travels arounds the world and discovers different cultures. Most of

Hi guys, I'm working on translation of one movie and I came across to this idiom. If you say about two people that they're joined/attached (that's my case) at the hip it means that they're very close with each other/they spend a

Actually, "case in point" is quite archaic and a historical perversion to boot: the original idiom was "in point", basically a direct translation from French "a point". It might be wiser to substitute something less