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Another one bites the dust

Finnish translation: “Taas yksi veti retuperät”

20:19 Jan 4, 2011
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English term or phrase: Another one bites the dust
in the context of someone leaving, this is just for my personal reference.
I'm in the beginning stages of learning Finnish. A friend of mine works for a company where they all just seem to resign one after the other, is there a similar phrase in Finnish?
trsk2000 (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:20
Finnish translation:“Taas yksi veti retuperät”
Explanation:
Well, don’t I just love the English language?
What is the meaning of 'Another one bites the dust'?
To "bite the dust" is to fall and die, like the loser of a gunfight.

So the only thing coming to my mind is
“Taas yksi veti retuperät” which really means ( go down the tube)
But perhaps the colleagues will have some other suggestions.


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Note added at 14 hrs (2011-01-05 11:10:21 GMT)
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there are other phrases as well, such as " veti lyhyen korren" etc.

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Note added at 2 days10 hrs (2011-01-07 07:15:57 GMT)
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The actual translation for that is to “draw out a short straw”



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Note added at 2 days11 hrs (2011-01-07 07:23:43 GMT)
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On the other hand “vetää vesiperän”
Means (“Että epäonnistuu tai mokaa jossain asiassa”) that one fails or does not succeed in something
Taas yksi veti vesiperän!
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3 -1taas yksi pulla uunista ulos
ktirk
2“Taas yksi veti retuperät”
Arja Whiteside (X)


  

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another one bites the dust
taas yksi pulla uunista ulos


Explanation:
"Yksi pulla uunista ulos" is the name of a children's game we used to play at school. Literal back translation: one bun out of the oven. It is a rather silly and pointless game in which the players emerge, one by one, out of the "oven" formed by the other players, while everyone screams, "Yksi pulla uunista ulos!" It does not refer to childbirth in the context of the game, neither is it always used in that sense as an idiom.

One man had all his friends leave Finland for work or studies abroad. He commented the latest departure laconically by saying, "Taas yksi pulla uunista ulos" (yet another bun out of the oven).

ktirk
Finland
Local time: 00:20
Native speaker of: Finnish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Kiitos Kalevi. Is this a phrase that has recently come into the Finnish language, i.e. it's not a classical term of phrase, as my Friend has not lived in Finland for 23 years


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Erja Hirvonen: "pullat uunissa" has another meaning and I don't think this phrase fits in context the asker had in mind. Anyway, when I was child the game was "viimeinen pari uunista ulos", that is last pair out of the oven. But maybe the game has new name, who knows.
21 hrs
  -> It is an ambiguous saying that is used in different senses. When a project is completed, it is another bun out of the oven, but I have also seen it used in the sense of people leaving one after the other, as well as in the childbearing sense, of course.
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
another one bites the dust
“Taas yksi veti retuperät”


Explanation:
Well, don’t I just love the English language?
What is the meaning of 'Another one bites the dust'?
To "bite the dust" is to fall and die, like the loser of a gunfight.

So the only thing coming to my mind is
“Taas yksi veti retuperät” which really means ( go down the tube)
But perhaps the colleagues will have some other suggestions.


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Note added at 14 hrs (2011-01-05 11:10:21 GMT)
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there are other phrases as well, such as " veti lyhyen korren" etc.

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Note added at 2 days10 hrs (2011-01-07 07:15:57 GMT)
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The actual translation for that is to “draw out a short straw”



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Note added at 2 days11 hrs (2011-01-07 07:23:43 GMT)
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On the other hand “vetää vesiperän”
Means (“Että epäonnistuu tai mokaa jossain asiassa”) that one fails or does not succeed in something
Taas yksi veti vesiperän!

Arja Whiteside (X)
Local time: 00:20
Native speaker of: Native in FinnishFinnish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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Notes to answerer
Asker: Kiitos Arja, would this expression be used, for example, if yet another person resigned or left a company? As I said, people keep leaving in succession, and in this context I would say 'another one bites the dust'

Asker: and what does vet lyhyen korren mean?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Erja Hirvonen: shouldn't this be "veti vesiperän", that means did not succeed?
23 hrs
  -> I think I agree with you, Vetää vesiperän", Much better; or then Veti lyhyemmän korren
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