Sbattuto fuori

English translation: kicked out/thrown out

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Italian term or phrase:	Sbattuto fuori
English translation:	kicked out/thrown out
Entered by:	Lara Barnett

17:08 Jan 16, 2018

Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / Character-based fiction

Italian term or phrase: Sbattuto fuori

Writer-character has just met another guy will eventually turn out to be a great buddy and work associate. This is their first introduction to each other and writer-charracter, who is narrating this novel, has just found out that his future buddy is also a writer, working on screen plays for cinema, TV etc. He now asks about his new buddy's work::

“E di solito sono interessati?”
“Mai. Fino ad una settimana fa, lavoravo ai dialoghi di una soap. Sbattuto fuori a calci in culo.”
"Perché quei coglioni degli editor mi hanno massacrato la sceneggiatura. "

I don't know exactly what the sense is here.

Lara Barnett KudoZ activity Questions: 2102 (8 open) (12 without valid answers) (216 closed without grading) Answers: 1884 United Kingdom
Local time: 16:55

kicked out/thrown out

Explanation:
literally "thrown out with kicks in the butt"

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Note added at 27 mins (2018-01-16 17:36:51 GMT)
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Re OP question: from the context it looks like he was kicked out of the job ("I worked/I used to work" - past tense).

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Note added at 28 mins (2018-01-16 17:37:45 GMT)
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"Up to a week ago", so no longer.

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Note added at 29 mins (2018-01-16 17:38:01 GMT)
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Sorry, "Until a week ago"

Selected response from:

Patrick Hopkins
Italy
Local time: 17:55

Grading comment

4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +4

kicked out/thrown out

Patrick Hopkins

4 +3

tossed/thrown out on my ass

Barbara Cochran, MFA

Kicked out

Lingospell

Answers

9 mins confidence:

Kicked out

Explanation:
He means that he was let go in a rude way and will no longer work on the dialogues of the soap opera.

Lingospell
Italy
Local time: 17:55
Does not meet criteria

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

tossed/thrown out on my ass

Explanation:
Another possibility that is more specific.

Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 11:55
Meets criteria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 42

7 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

kicked out/thrown out

Patrick Hopkins
Italy
Local time: 17:55
Meets criteria
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 82

Notes to answerer

Asker: Do you mean he was kicked out of his job, or he threw the script out?

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