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šetati nekog od vrata do vrata

English translation: send someone from pillar to post

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Croatian term or phrase:šetati nekog od vrata do vrata
English translation:send someone from pillar to post
Entered by: Zdenka Ivkovcic

21:07 Oct 19, 2010
Croatian to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Surveying
Croatian term or phrase: šetati nekog od vrata do vrata
Jedna od karakteristika funkcioniranja javne uprave - previše papirologije i previše "šetanja" od vrata do vrata.
Zdenka Ivkovcic
Croatia
Local time: 20:37
send someone from pillar to post
Explanation:
... just the way it is
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Pavle Perencevic
Canada
Local time: 11:37
Grading comment
Hvala.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 +3send someone from pillar to post
Pavle Perencevic


  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
send someone from pillar to post


Explanation:
... just the way it is

Pavle Perencevic
Canada
Local time: 11:37
Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Hvala.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  dkalinic: Or: give somebody a run-around.
6 mins
  -> Yeah, that's good too - it's just "give somebody THE run-around".
agree  Bogdan Petrovic
9 hrs
agree  Dragan Novakovic
10 hrs
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