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fat wheeze

Portuguese translation: uma grande enganação, uma grande farsa; um mega esquema

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English term or phrase:a big, fat wheeze
Portuguese translation:uma grande enganação, uma grande farsa; um mega esquema
Entered by: Matheus Chaud

23:37 Dec 14, 2015
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Quadrinhos
English term or phrase: fat wheeze
"So after ten years of hikking myself around to every crummy casting office in town, kissing up to every sleazeball who calls himself a producer ... where am I? No place, only I'm not so dumb now. I know that art and the rest ot its is a big, fat wheeze ... not real enough to qualify as a dream ... and the dollars are all that counts."
Alexandre Reis
Brazil
Local time: 08:00
grande enganação, grande farsa
Explanation:
I know that art and the rest ot its is a big, fat wheeze...

...é tudo uma grande enganação / é tudo uma grande farsa...

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Note added at 31 minutos (2015-12-15 00:08:44 GMT)
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wheeze

▸ noun: (Briticism) a clever scheme or trick
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Matheus Chaud
Brazil
Local time: 08:00
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1grande enganação, grande farsa
Matheus Chaud
3 +1mega esquema
Ana Vozone
4uma grande furada!
Danik 2014
4um grande e gordo chiado..uma grande e gorda piada
airmailrpl
3grande balão estourado
Katarina Peters


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
mega esquema


Explanation:
2.
Sugestão.
Wheeze:
a clever or amusing scheme, idea, or trick.
"a new wheeze to help farmers"
synonyms: scheme, plan, idea, tactic, move, stratagem, ploy, gambit, device, manoeuvre, contrivance, expedient; More


Ana Vozone
Local time: 12:00
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 216

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agree  expressisverbis
15 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Sandra!
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
grande enganação, grande farsa


Explanation:
I know that art and the rest ot its is a big, fat wheeze...

...é tudo uma grande enganação / é tudo uma grande farsa...

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Note added at 31 minutos (2015-12-15 00:08:44 GMT)
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wheeze

▸ noun: (Briticism) a clever scheme or trick

Matheus Chaud
Brazil
Local time: 08:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 267

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  expressisverbis: "Grande farsa" em pt-pt encaixa.
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  -> Obrigado, Sandra!
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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
grande balão estourado


Explanation:
...?

Katarina Peters
Canada
Local time: 07:00
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Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 88
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
uma grande furada!


Explanation:
Sugestão

Danik 2014
Brazil
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 127
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
a big, fat wheeze
um grande e gordo chiado..uma grande e gorda piada


Explanation:
Explanation:
a big, fat wheeze => um grande e gordo chiado (uma piada)

wheeze
(h)wēz/
noun
an old joke, story, aphorism, act, or routine.
"the old wheeze about the diner complaining about the fly in his soup


airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 08:00
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 227
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