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bringing back all kinds of pervert off the street

English translation: attracting all kinds of sexual deviants off the street and into her "workplace"

05:14 Jan 18, 2008
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: bringing back all kinds of pervert off the street
Beller tilted his head to look over Fabel's shoulder towards the body.
"Whoever it was is a complete psycho. Mind you, she was asking for trouble getting mixed up in this game - bringing back all kinds of pervert off the street."

Actually, I don't quite understand the whole sentence. It was at the crime scene and the victim is a girl and a prostitute. I guess "getting mixed up in this game" means "her job as a prostitute" ? but I don't understand --> "Bring back all kinds of pervert of the street"
Magicmarker
Local time: 15:59
Selected answer:attracting all kinds of sexual deviants off the street and into her "workplace"
Explanation:
The context isn't indicated, but I'm surmising from what I do see, particularly the "off the streets" bit - she's mixed up in prostitution which attracts sexual deviants of all kinds, and they were in the streets looking for street prostitutes to service them, but she brought them off the street - into her place of work? a brothel, a hotel? perhaps the background story gives this info.
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NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 04:59
Grading comment
thank you very much indeed

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attracting all kinds of sexual deviants off the street and into her "workplace"


Explanation:
The context isn't indicated, but I'm surmising from what I do see, particularly the "off the streets" bit - she's mixed up in prostitution which attracts sexual deviants of all kinds, and they were in the streets looking for street prostitutes to service them, but she brought them off the street - into her place of work? a brothel, a hotel? perhaps the background story gives this info.

NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 04:59
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 75
Grading comment
thank you very much indeed

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  orientalhorizon
4 mins
agree  Nesrin
1 hr
agree  Marie-Hélène Hayles: "in this game" is a generic term but may also be intended specifically here, as "on the game" is GB slang for working as a prostitute. As for the "bringing back", I'd assume it meant back to her own home but without more context it's impossible to be sure
2 hrs
agree  Jack Doughty
2 hrs
agree  Nicole Y. Adams, M.A.
3 hrs
agree  Patricia Townshend (X)
5 hrs
agree  mistahara (X)
6 hrs
agree  Romanian Translator (X)
9 hrs
agree  Cristina Santos
17 hrs
agree  V_Nedkov
4 days
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