Oct 18, 2013 11:23
10 yrs ago
Greek term

ρεζίλι των σκυλιών

Greek to English Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings saying
Δεν μου επέτρεψαν να επιστρέψω στο δωμάτιο. Με κλείδωσαν στο κρατητήριο, κοινός κρατούμενος, αυτό ήμουν. Ευτυχώς, τουλάχιστον, δεν μου πέρασαν χειροπέδες. Δεν έγινα ρεζίλι των σκυλιών σε ένα τουριστικό θέρετρο γεμάτο σκυλιά.

The whole of the last sentence. Preferably an expression so that "ρεζίλι των σκυλιών" and "τουριστικό θέρετρο γεμάτο σκυλιά" contain the same word.

Thanks

Proposed translations

+1
37 mins

At least, they didn't make me a laughingstock in a tourist resort loaded with livestock.

Assuming that "σκυλιά" means ugly, perhaps low-life and sexually provocative women (definition documented in Λεξικό Κοινής Νεοελληνικής) or low-life, uneducated people or rednecks in a broader sense, you can use "livestock" which on one hand, according to the Urban dictionary, denotes such women and on the other hand, can also provoke to the reader the image of people behaving like animals. At the same time, you have two words ending in -stock and an alliteration of "l" (laughingstock - livestock).

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/make oneself or somethin...

http://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/le...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=livestock
Peer comment(s):

agree tania mourtzila : !
2 hrs
Thank you, Tania, enjoy yr weekend!
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59 mins

fool

I wasn't made to look like a fool in a resort full of fools.

Another option would be:

I didn't go to the dogs in a resort full of dogs.

go to the dogs = become ruined
dog = a person regarded as unattractive or uninteresting
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+1
21 hrs

a spectacle

Αν σου το επιτρέπει το κείμενο:

They did not make a spectacle of me in this tourist resort (that was) hardly short of spectacles.
Note from asker:
Bearing in a mind that the narrator is a bit of a psycho, I've got this at the moment. What do you think? I did not become a laughing stock, a scum in a tourist resort full of scums
or perhaps "full of scum" instead of scums
Peer comment(s):

agree Nadia-Anastasia Fahmi
1 day 23 hrs
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7 days

was rediculed as if a dog/ was made to feel like a dog

..... (any one of the above)...in a (tourist) resort full of dogs.
Note from asker:
Thank you Phyto. I decided to express it like this: I did not become a laughing stock, another scum in a tourist resort full of scum. What do you think?
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