Translation terminology
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Translation literature
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Definite and indefinite
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- Flieringa ring
- B-drinker
- bitzer - a mongrel dog (Australian)
- home and hosed - australian phrase, from "A Cry in the Dark" (1988 movie); see "home and dry"
- buff out - from "Planes, trains and automobiles", a comedy
- stick by - from "The Life of Emile Zola", 1938 movie
- pip to the post - from "Evil", a 2003 movie
- that's wassup - from "Inside Man" by Spike Lee
- carrying-on, from "The Last Picture Show" (1971)
- branch water, from "Gettysburg", 1993
- capital goods
- jive-ass - from "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010)
- arseholed - "Withnail and I", 1987
- down bubble - "Run Silent Run Deep" 1958 - /29.07.2012
- TBT = Target Bearing Transmitter, ditto, 1958
- masked facies - "The Savages" 2007
- low on the totem pole - "Martian Child" 2007
- dinged-up - "The Right Stuff" 1983
- to ding up - do., 1983
- pudknocker - do.
- articular facet - reading the "sternum" at wiki
- cross dowel - как по-русски?
- hold cheap - "From the Dark Tower" by Countee Cullen
- milling cutter, 5aug12
- empire waist - "Miller's Crossing" (1990): schmatte -> quotation search
- lay odds
- kerfing - prompted by a chat with DCDuring
- jointer plane - фуганок
- locus poenitentiae - "The Paper Chase" (1973) - 12 08 2012
- knight of the post - From Hudibras (1663)
- moving violation
- Seville orange - "Much Ado About Nothing" (1599) - 21 09 2012
- rabato - do., 24 09 2012
- root and branch - 27 09 2012
- wit-cracker - Much Ado - 28 09 2012
- tirocinium - through looking for quotations for "giddy" - 28 09 2012
- turn the scale - W S Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence" - 06 10 2012
- cocopan - was listening to "Awaye!" at ABC Radio, heard "opencast mining" -> Wikipedia: "Big Hole" article - a caption for an image. 06 10 2012
- PRMS
- cut a figure - WSMaugh. - 11 10 2012
- a Roland for an Oliver - do., - 13 10 2012
- environmental audit - 13 10 2012
- sans gêne - 14 10 2012
- take in bad part - 14 10 2012
- antiscalant - 17 10 2012
- stump speech - The Economist - 17 10 2012
- Mother Hubbard - MS ch 49 - 18 10 2012
- fall to one's lot - MS ch 50 - 18 10 2012
- natural wastage - 20 10 2012
- there is reason in the roasting of eggs - 21 10 2012
- proving ground - 25 10 2012
- caubeen - 28 10 2012
- heave in sight - 31 10 2012
- bargaining chip - 02 11 2012 - the Economist
- off-gassing - 02 11 2012 - reading Silicate mineral paint
- shot through with - 02 11 2012
- residual power - 11 11 2012
- call time (on smth) - 27 11 2012, from a malapropism in Telemachus, Friend
- wig block - 29 11 2012, Moby Dick
- pitch upon - 29 11 2012, Moby Dick
- to the end of the chapter - 02 12 2012, do.
- unrecking - 05 12 2012, MD ch 36
- hand over hand - 05 12 2012, MD ch 40
- money mule - 10 12 2012, news
- move the needle - 22 12 2012, news
- make fast - 30 12 2012, J Conrad
- stemhead - 30 12 2012, do.
- twopenny-halfpenny - 30 12 2012, do.
- bear in upon - 30 12 2012, do.
- blow upon - 07 01 2013, "Oliver!" (1968)
- up a gum tree - 08 01 2013, do.
- maintopman - 08 01 2013, Billy Budd (1962)
- rodbuster - 12 01 2013, reading w:Rebar
- handsome is as handsome does - listening to "David Copperfield"
- rabbit on - 01 02 2013, "The Castle" (1997)
- slug it out - 06 02 2013, BBC Radio, report on Syrian war
- take a flyer - 06 02 2013, O. Henry, Man About Town
- straw in the wind - 11 02 2013, BBC Radio, discussion of Pope's resignation
- come to time - 15 02 2013, O Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
- cry up - 20 02 2013, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer
- make shift - 21 02 2013, do.
- rallying point - 05 03 2013, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
- slur over - 29 03 2013, Sons and Lovers
- rip along - 31 03 2013, do.
- lerky - 02 04 2013, do.
- on the club - 06 04 2013, do.; DCDuring
- gilliver - 06 04 2013, do.
- by a long chalk - 06 04 2013, do.; ch 6
- milk churn - 06 04 2013, do.; ch. 7
- in high feather - 07 04 2013, do.
- roisterously - 08 04 2013, do.
- scrattle \ scrattling - 09 04 2013, do.
- palletizer - 24 04 2013, news on a BASF factory
- netback - 27 04 2013, oilpatch learning curve
- univocity - 17 05 2013, combing the web for clinical trials jargon
- superplasticizer - 20 05 2013, translating a news abt. a synthanol plant
- postdeterminer - 10 06 2013, Quirk's Comprehensive Grammar, 1985
- regurge - 04 07 2013, Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, 1870
- romp home - 17 08 2013, from a news report
- antichresis - 21 08 2013, legal learning curve (collateral, pledges etc.)
- on a kick - 27 09 2013, reading the news
- turn up trumps - 06 10 2013, forums
- spieler - 12 10 2013, Tiger Bay (1959)
- peptize - 24 10 2013, Petrochemistry: aslphaltenes and resins
- pound a beat - 27 10 2013, Cape Fear (1962)
- hoonish - 11 12 2013, Leunig at ABC Radio
- in the same breath - 13 02 2014, BBC: Mathematics: Why the brain sees maths as beauty
- supplementive clause - 22 02 2014, grammar readings
- have legs - 16 03 2014, BBC, Tweets from Crimea
- scotobiology - 14 06 2014, reading abt. genetic linkage etc.
- vitrector - 18 07 2014, reading on vitrectomy
- out of gear - 24 07 2014, Dickens's "Hard Times", ch 11
- hastilude - 29 08 2014, via passage of arms in a Father Brown story by Ch.
- passage of arms - 29 08 2014, Chesterton, "The Man With Two Beards"
- Pandean pipes - 30 08 2014, William Henley, "Notes on the Firth" (1875)
- immunoproteasome - 26 09 2014, reading Science Daily
- back answer - 04 10 2014, William Henley, "Bus Driver" (1901)
- fillip - "give a fillip" widely used in Hindi sources but seems to have faded away from the British ones
- clean chit, to give a clean chit
- "to float a tender"
- "cynosure of all eyes" - in Indian press; nice expression
- "past over one year", "last over one year" : "The committee finds that the post of chairman CPCB has been lying vacant for the last over one year and additional charge given to a senior officer of MoEF."
- "do the needful"
- hydel = hydroelectric
Technology-affected words
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- In demand with the consumer \\ not "by"
- "Construction on the plant began in" (not only "of the plant" as in Russian)
