röja i spåren
English translation: cleaning/clearing up in the aftermath
| 19:28 May 13, 2013 |
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|  Selected response from: Deane Goltermann Sweden Local time: 18:00 | ||||||
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| 3 | cleaning/clearing up in the aftermath |
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10 hrs confidence: 
cleaning/clearing up in the aftermath Explanation: Maybe you came up with something like this already, but I've 'slept on it'. This sounds like some (at least locally) known incident that is larger than simply a house fire. |
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11 hrs confidence:
| röja i spåren efter tidy up the remains of Explanation: The source term should include "efter" as the expression "spåren efter" most readily translates into "the traces of" or "the remains of", i.e. something that is long gone. This fits the context well as the fire in question would likely be one that happened in 2011 http://www.dn.se/sthlm/kraftig-radhusbrand-i-sodertalje Att "röja (upp) i" något is to "clean up/tidy up" or "clear" something. |
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