Thread: Colloquialisms [promises to be Unutterably Silly]
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Old 05-05-2008, 07:06 AM   #118
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Originally Posted by Patricia View Post
Don't trust Russian translations. 'The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak' was once famously rendered as 'The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten.'
When my wife was teaching Russian language in the UK, that was one of the good examples of bad translation she taught them.
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