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It's also my pension, after a fashion.

Portuguese translation: Também é a minha reforma, de certa forma.

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English term or phrase:It's also my pension, after a fashion.
Portuguese translation:Também é a minha reforma, de certa forma.

18:03 Dec 1, 2013
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English term or phrase: It's also my pension, after a fashion.
I haven't thought of the crash much recently, although I enjoy telling the story on the rare occasions I find someone I haven't told it to already.

It's my party piece.

It's also my pension, after a fashion.

When I got home from the States, I was contacted by a Californian legal firm with the formidable name of Kananack Murgatroyd Baum & Hedlund.
leandrocarvalho
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:22
Também é a minha reforma, de certa forma.
Explanation:
Pension = reforma; pensão.
'Reforma/forma' permite manter a rima do original 'pension/fashion'.

Adv. 1. after a fashion - to some extent; not very well; "he speaks French after a fashion"

Espero que ajude.
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Catarina Lopes
Portugal
Local time: 06:22
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3Também é a minha reforma, de certa forma.
Catarina Lopes
5Também é a minha aposentadoria, de certa forma.
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it's also my pension, after a fashion.
Também é a minha reforma, de certa forma.


Explanation:
Pension = reforma; pensão.
'Reforma/forma' permite manter a rima do original 'pension/fashion'.

Adv. 1. after a fashion - to some extent; not very well; "he speaks French after a fashion"

Espero que ajude.


    Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/after+a+fashion
    Reference: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/after+a+fashion
Catarina Lopes
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
it's also my pension, after a fashion.
Também é a minha aposentadoria, de certa forma.


Explanation:
it's also my pension, after a fashion. => Também é a minha aposentadoria, de certa forma.

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 02:22
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