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trademark understatement

English translation: typical/customary/usual understatement

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English term or phrase:trademark understatement
Selected answer:typical/customary/usual understatement
Entered by: Alexandre Reis

12:47 Jan 6, 2016
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Tourism & Travel
English term or phrase: trademark understatement
"That's not a hill, it's a wrinkle," says John with trademark understatement as we survey the ominous incline ahead.

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Alexandre Reis
Brazil
Local time: 09:38
typical/customary/usual understatement
Explanation:
it means he has a habit of making this kind of understatement

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Note added at 7 mins (2016-01-06 12:54:55 GMT)
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ominous incline=steep slope

so, the understatement is his description of this steep hill as a "wrinkle"

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Note added at 31 mins (2016-01-06 13:18:41 GMT)
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Ominous=looks frightening, challenging
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 13:38
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typical/customary/usual understatement


Explanation:
it means he has a habit of making this kind of understatement

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Note added at 7 mins (2016-01-06 12:54:55 GMT)
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ominous incline=steep slope

so, the understatement is his description of this steep hill as a "wrinkle"

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Note added at 31 mins (2016-01-06 13:18:41 GMT)
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Ominous=looks frightening, challenging

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 13:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jack Doughty
4 mins
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agree  Laura van Staveren
11 mins
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agree  philgoddard
43 mins
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agree  B D Finch
58 mins
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22 hrs
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