rode the projects

Italian translation: essere/andare di pattuglia nei quartieri (o: zone) popolari

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English term or phrase:rode the projects
Italian translation:essere/andare di pattuglia nei quartieri (o: zone) popolari
Entered by: Alessandra Mozzi

14:03 Nov 17, 2010
English to Italian translations [Non-PRO]
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / police academy: "We came out of the Academy together. Rode the projects before Joe made detective"
English term or phrase: rode the projects
Ecco il contesto: in una fiction, un agente è morto e la collega parla di lui, non riesco a interpretare "rode the projects", non mi risulta sia un modo di dire, qualcuno ha suggerimenti? Grazie!
Alessandra Mozzi
Local time: 14:21
essere/andare di pattuglia nei quartieri (o: zone) popolari
Explanation:
magari anche qualcosa tipo "battevamo insieme le zone popolari", per rendere la frase un po' più "slangosa"...
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AdamiAkaPataflo
Germany
Local time: 14:21
Grading comment
Grazie!!!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2patrolled the housing projects..
airmailrpl
3 +2essere/andare di pattuglia nei quartieri (o: zone) popolari
AdamiAkaPataflo
3 +1ride the projects
Cilian O'Tuama
3 +1facevamo la ronda / eravamo di ronda nei quartieri popolari
Maria Rosa Fontana


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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
rode the projects
patrolled the housing projects..


Explanation:
rode the projects => patrolled the housing projects..

Chicago's Public Housing Projects
Essay from The Economist. Describes some of the problems that arose from the concentration of many low-income housing units in one area.
www.uwec.edu/geography/ivogeler/w188/.../chprjcts.htm

Public housing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Between 1925 and 1930 Germany was the site of innovative and extensive municipal public housing projects, mostly in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Frankfurt ...
Asia - Europe - North America - Australasia
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing

New York City Housing Authority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... following the demolition of several larger Chicago housing projects, including the Cabrini–Green Homes and the Robert Taylor Homes (whose 4321 three, ...
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Housing_Authority -

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 09:21
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Suzan Hamer
11 mins
  -> Thank you

agree  AdamiAkaPataflo: yessss - only, it is EN>IT... :-)) // Cilian explained that to me - for some reason I directly received the EN>IT notification...
1 hr
  -> it wasn't when I answered...Language pair English => English to Italian
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
we came out of the academy together. rode the projects before joe made detective
ride the projects


Explanation:
= patrolling/policing the housing developments

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Note added at 31 mins (2010-11-17 14:34:43 GMT)
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In plain English:

After finishing police school, their work involved policing a certain part of town (“the projects”). Joe was later promoted to detective.

Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
Local time: 14:21
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AdamiAkaPataflo: yessss - only, it is EN>IT... :-)) // oh, that's why, I just got the EN>IT version... I actually found it funny, that two colleagues answered in English - one can get mixed up, but two?! have a nice evening, ciao
1 hr
  -> was initially posted as EN mono
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
essere/andare di pattuglia nei quartieri (o: zone) popolari


Explanation:
magari anche qualcosa tipo "battevamo insieme le zone popolari", per rendere la frase un po' più "slangosa"...

AdamiAkaPataflo
Germany
Local time: 14:21
Works in field
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 45
Grading comment
Grazie!!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  zerlina: ossìsherie:-)
51 mins
  -> mersibocù, bebì

agree  SYLVY75
2 hrs
  -> grazie! :-)
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
facevamo la ronda / eravamo di ronda nei quartieri popolari


Explanation:
Un'altra possibilità

Maria Rosa Fontana
Italy
Local time: 14:21
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Simo Blom
15 mins
  -> grazie
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