Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
em franca cavaqueira
English translation:
happily or joyfully chitchatting
Added to glossary by
Gustavo Silva
Feb 18, 2009 14:34
15 yrs ago
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em franca cavaqueira
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A boda estava no auge, os convivas satisfeitos e alegres andando de mesa em mesa, em franca cavaqueira.
I thought of ***one big prattle***...but I'd like to find another way of saying it possiblem, it's not sounding right. I would like to thank everyone for their help.
I thought of ***one big prattle***...but I'd like to find another way of saying it possiblem, it's not sounding right. I would like to thank everyone for their help.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | happily or joyfully chitchatting |
Gustavo Silva
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| 5 | chatting away |
Amy Duncan (X)
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| 4 | just shooting the breeze |
Kathryn Litherland
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May 29, 2009 18:54: Gustavo Silva Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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Gustavo Silva
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happily or joyfully chitchatting
"Everyone in the University was happily chitchatting throughout the hallways"
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4037009/7/Ambrosia_Food_ONLY_for...
"I was taking this picture on a bus full of happily chitchatting tourists in Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses"...
http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/photography-beginners-for...
"As we pushed through, the lost spirit and enthusiasm was reborn, for everybody was joyfully chitchatting along the trail..."
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1030/explorer/banahaw98....
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4037009/7/Ambrosia_Food_ONLY_for...
"I was taking this picture on a bus full of happily chitchatting tourists in Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses"...
http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/photography-beginners-for...
"As we pushed through, the lost spirit and enthusiasm was reborn, for everybody was joyfully chitchatting along the trail..."
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1030/explorer/banahaw98....
Example sentence:
Everyone is happy, joyfully chitchatting about the special event that is coming.
Everyone was happily chitchatting away to each other; total strangers who had this great thing in common, their love for their own personal Idol favorite
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "I'm going to use chitchatting, this was very helpful, thank you so much. Have a great day!"
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Kathryn Litherland
United States
United States
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Works in field
United States
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Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English, English
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4
just shooting the breeze
One colloquial way to say it. I don't know if it's used in the UK, though.
Note from asker:
| Thank you so much for your help. |
| Have a great day! |
5 hrs
chatting away
Or, "chewing the fat" if this is really colloquial.
Note from asker:
| Thank you so much for your help. Have a great day! |
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