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não dexariam de lhes trazer uma raposa

English translation: they would certainly fail/flunk

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Portuguese term or phrase:não dexariam de lhes trazer uma raposa
English translation:they would certainly fail/flunk
Entered by: Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira

13:08 Nov 19, 2012
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: não dexariam de lhes trazer uma raposa
Contetxo: (law students who hate their courses and would rather be writers):

"...a faculdade de direito, que abominavam e onde raramente punham os pés, dos códigos, que não tinham pachorra para meter dentro da cabeça, e dos exames que, hélas, se aproximavam e **não deixaram de lhes trazer uma raposa**.

Obrigada,

Barbara
Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 20:49
they would certainly fail/flunk
Explanation:
Eu também não conhecia. Veja a acepção 5.

http://www.priberam.pt/dlpo/default.aspx

raposa |ô|
s. f.
1. [Zoologia] Mamífero carnívoro, da família dos canídeos (Canis vulpes), que compreende animais de cauda espessa e focinho pontiagudo.
2. A pele deste animal.
3. [Figurado] Pessoa fina e manhosa.
4. Cesto cilíndrico usado na vindima.
5. REPROVAÇÃO NUM EXAME ESCOLAR
6. [Náutica] Forro de madeira debaixo das mesas do traquete.
7. Raízes que se introduzem nos canos condutores de água.
8. Bebedeira.
9. Jogo popular.
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Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Grading comment
Obrigada.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3they would certainly fail/flunk
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
4would certainly result in poor grades.
Elvira Alves Barry


Discussion entries: 2





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
they would certainly fail/flunk


Explanation:
Eu também não conhecia. Veja a acepção 5.

http://www.priberam.pt/dlpo/default.aspx

raposa |ô|
s. f.
1. [Zoologia] Mamífero carnívoro, da família dos canídeos (Canis vulpes), que compreende animais de cauda espessa e focinho pontiagudo.
2. A pele deste animal.
3. [Figurado] Pessoa fina e manhosa.
4. Cesto cilíndrico usado na vindima.
5. REPROVAÇÃO NUM EXAME ESCOLAR
6. [Náutica] Forro de madeira debaixo das mesas do traquete.
7. Raízes que se introduzem nos canos condutores de água.
8. Bebedeira.
9. Jogo popular.

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 56
Grading comment
Obrigada.

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agree  Catarina Aleixo: é gíria académica, sim.
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agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
would certainly result in poor grades.


Explanation:
I know that when my father was a boy there was an expression used when students failed an exam: "ficar com a raposa". Literally, being left holding the fox.

Elvira Alves Barry
Local time: 01:49
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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