tuđe nećemo, svoje ne damo

19:12 Aug 18, 2009

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Croatian term or phrase: tuđe nećemo, svoje ne damo

A Croatian politician is discussing the dispute with Slovenia:

"Slovenci su nam prijatelji, njihova legitimna očekivanja moramo ozbiljno razmotriti. Ali, kompromis je moguć do granice koja kaže: tuđe nećemo, svoje ne damo. Hrvatsko more i kopno ne mogu biti moneta za kupnju ulaznice u EU."

Could it be something like "enough is enough"?

David Stephenson KudoZ activity Questions: 20 (none open) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 65 United States
Local time: 22:17

Summary of answers provided

we don't want anything from anybody else, but what's ours is ours

John Farebrother

We don't want what's other's and the others can't have what's ours

eleonora_r

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tuđe nećemo, svoje ne damo

Gordana Sujdovic

tuđe nećemo, svoje ne damo

Dragan Novakovic

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29 mins confidence:

We don't want what's other's and the others can't have what's ours

Explanation:
I am just trying to convey (more or less) the meaning of this "phrase".

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Note added at 49 mins (2009-08-18 20:01:05 GMT)
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Exactly!

eleonora_r
Local time: 04:17
Works in field
Native speaker of: Croatian

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks. I thought that there might be a hidden, figurative meaning behind this phrase, but now I see that it's intended literally (albeit with allusions to the communist-era connotation, as referenced by Gordana).

11 hrs confidence:

we don't want anything from anybody else, but what's ours is ours

Explanation:
that's how I would put it

John Farebrother
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: English

Reference comments

14 mins peer agreement (net): +6

Reference: tuđe nećemo, svoje ne damo

Reference information:
According to Nele Karajlić, the creed of the movement was: "Tuđe hoćemo, svoje nemamo" ("Theirs, we want; ours, we haven't got."). That is a parody on one of the often used political slogans of the communist period: "Tuđe nećemo, svoje ne damo." ("Theirs, we don't want; ours, they can't have.").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Primitives

Gordana Sujdovic
Serbia
Native speaker of: Serbian

Note to reference poster

Asker: Thanks. See my note to Eleonora.

1 day 8 hrs

Reference: tuđe nećemo, svoje ne damo

Reference information:
"All we need is that someone wipes the dust from the old Yugoslav slogan, “we do not give what’s ours, we don’t want what’s others".

Reference: http://www.osservatoriobalcani.org/article/articleview/10850...

Dragan Novakovic
Native speaker of:

Serbian

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