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cheirinho de lucro

English translation: Smells like profit

00:23 Aug 23, 2013
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Economics
Portuguese term or phrase: cheirinho de lucro
I came across this in an article on Valor Econômico Newspaper.

'Cheirinho de lucro'. How can I say this in English? O contexto é o balanço de uma empresa genuinamente nacional ao fechar o ano fiscal com superavit.
Alexandre Altenfelder Silva
Brazil
Local time: 11:16
English translation:Smells like profit
Explanation:
Sug.
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Lucio Mesquita
Brazil
Local time: 11:16
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4Smells like profit
Lucio Mesquita
4 +2A hint of profit
Martin Riordan
5 +1The smell of profit
airmailrpl
4 +1the scent of money
Muriel Vasconcellos
4 +1(The) Whiff of Profit(s)
Charles R. Castleberry
4scent for money
Emiliano Pantoja
4A smidgen of profit
Nick Taylor
2inching into the black
T o b i a s


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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
scent for money


Explanation:
a great scent for money

Emiliano Pantoja
Spain
Local time: 16:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Muriel Vasconcellos: You're on the right track, but the way you have phrase it, it's ungrammatical in English, and it doesn't mean what you think it means. A preposition can make a world of difference.
4 hrs
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Smells like profit


Explanation:
Sug.

Lucio Mesquita
Brazil
Local time: 11:16
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marlene Curtis
51 mins
  -> Thanks : )
agree  Claudio Mazotti
1 hr
agree  Vidomar (X)
3 hrs
agree  Rafael Sousa Brazlate
22 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
A hint of profit


Explanation:
I think this would be a good translation. The original suggests to me that there are signs of profit, a suggestion of profit, but as yet no concrete profit.

Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 11:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 48

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Paulinho Fonseca
5 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Paulinho!
agree  Alex Alexandre
2 days 7 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Alex!
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
the scent of money


Explanation:
This is the way we say it in English. It's a common idiom. 484,000 reference on Google.

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 07:16
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 58

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rachel Fell
16 hrs
  -> Thanks, Rachel!
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
(The) Whiff of Profit(s)


Explanation:
HIH

https://www.google.com.br/webhp?source=search_app&gws_rd=cr#...

Charles R. Castleberry
United States
Local time: 09:16
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alex Alexandre
1 day 23 hrs
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
A smidgen of profit


Explanation:
A smidgen of profit

Nick Taylor
Local time: 15:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
inching into the black


Explanation:
OK no context, and I see no one else hazarding a guess. :)

It is reported that Korea Coal Corporation is inching into the black for the first time in 9 years.
Except for the interest on a KRW 1.3 trillion debt, its books as of the end of November were KRW 3.79 billion in surplus, taking it virtually out of the red.
http://www.steelguru.com/raw_material_news/Korea_Coal_inchin...

After inching into the black in 1982, the Big Three are expected to post a robust $4.7 billion profit this year, within striking distance of 1977's $5.2 billion peak.
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/24/business/a-protected-detro...

It should hardly be a surprise that the new GM, with so much money to work with (plus a special $16 billion tax benefit) would start inching into the black again. After all, Ford, without government help, has posted after-tax earnings of about $4.7 billion for the first half of this year -- more than twice GM's, even with the $1.3 billion second-quarter profit that "Government Motors" announced yesterday
http://www.aboutweston.com/ECONOMICS101.html



T o b i a s
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Allison Wright (X): You have a lovely contextual imagination, Tobias! :) I like "robust" in "a robust $4.7 billion profit"
3 days 14 hrs
  -> NYT - always a good source for ideas.
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
The smell of profit


Explanation:
cheirinho de lucro => The smell of profit

Quote - The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source ...
www.quotationsbook.com/quote/41209/‎
Famous Quote on Quotations Book - The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source. - by Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Company to turn pig manure into the sweet smell of profit ...
www.independent.ie › Regionals › Enniscorthy Guardian › News
Pigs are renowned for their breathtaking odour, but a local company is planning to turn the stink into the smell of profit.NRGE Limited, of Mooresfort, Lattin, Co.

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airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 11:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alex Alexandre
2 days 3 hrs
  -> agradeço
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