You boot me in a snooker of beak
Can you understand the phrase above? lol Well, I have to tell you what the meaning of the phrase which contains quotation marks is.
First of all Id like to congratulate my English teacher who was smart enough to understand what one of her young student of English meant Its a hard work and even impossible to say Brazilian slangs and Portuguese idiomatic expressions in other languages, but, many times, Brazilian students try doing it saying them literally. lol
Lets go to the story of snooker of beak: when a Brazilian student was being interviewed in a spoken exam by his new English teacher, he said to her You boot me in a snooker of beak lol ( Você me bota numa sinuca de bico) Firstly the teacher didnt understand what he said and, with a flash of insight she realized what the youngster meant: You put me in a difficult situation or Im behind the eight ball. He tried to say, in English, a popular expression in Brazil, mainly among the ordinary people, but he failed because he said it literally. Another funny thing in this story: Brazilians from the masses use the verb botar instead to say colocar or por( put).
The young student looked the word up in a Portuguese-English dictionary and he found: bota = boot. If he looked the infinitive botar up in the same dictionary, he would find: botar = lay (to produce eggs)
Photo from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker
Another student said:I know there (Sei lá) He said it instead of saying beats me! or I dunno!
And I loved to know about a young girl writing about her holidays at a Brazils beach: I was wearing my new beach exit
lol Shed like to say that she was wearing her new beach robe. In Brazil, the Portuguese expression for beach robe is saída de praia. Saída also means exit.
http://ladyj-carpedien.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html
And the girl also said: Going to the beach is
all of the good. lol All of the Good means Its very good Brazilians say Tudo de bom For example, a very known pet-food industry ad in the its bags say : Adotar é tudo de bom!
photo from:http://proptry.blogspot.com/2009/02/adotar-e-tudo-de-bom.html
Adopting is very good!
By the way, my family is tudo de bom.
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