os últimos de clonagem

22:25 Jul 5, 2005
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Slang
Portuguese term or phrase: os últimos de clonagem
This is from a colloquial complaint about the neopostistic hiring practices of a company. The entire sentence is:

"Essa falta de parâmetros gera problemas como tivemos os últimos de clonagem."
SDAnderson
United States
Local time: 07:41


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4 +4the last ones concerning cloning
Ivana de Sousa Santos


  

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os últimos de clonagem
the last ones concerning cloning


Explanation:
"Thar lack of parameters generates problems like the last ones we had concerning cloning".

Ivana de Sousa Santos
Portugal
Local time: 12:41
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in FrenchFrench
Grading comment
I think cloning is used metaphorically.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Martins
16 hrs
  -> Obrigada.

agree  Simon Foakes: ah, yes
1 day 20 hrs
  -> well, apparently not!

agree  Henrique Magalhaes
7 days
  -> Obrigada, Henrique.

agree  amj_services (X)
36 days
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Comment: I think cloning is used metaphorically.



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