Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2

What exactly and why in bones???

And another one I used on certain poster:
Here`s your pain, city slicker!!!!

All I know is that it means to have a strong feeling about something. Intuition if you like. You haven't given any context as to what.

The saying comes from the notion that people with arthritis. rheumatism etc could feel pain in their bones before the onset of cold and rain, a predictor of a change in the weather.

Exactly! That`s what I needed to hear. :):):)

Now I remember English features a similar saying after I recalled: I feel in my fingers I feel it in my toes....
Fingers and toes definitely have bones inside.....

That's from a song ' Love is all around' by the Troggs. It's been covered many times. The saying 'I feel it in my bones' is an English one as far as I'm aware.


Not much idea about this one.

Exactly!!! :):):)

yes, this one was extremely colloqiual. No worries. It means: I have found your soft spot, crafty fellow. :):):)

Jak powiedzieć po Polsku? Somehow I don't think city slicker will translate too well.


Vulnerabilities.

Better than city licker, for sure. :):):)


Exactly. The case is solved.

A new one :

What does it mean: to boot sb???

To fire them?

Nope. Sth more literal.... :):):)

To throw someone out?

Boot someone up with a hypodermic needle with illegal drugs in it.
Boot them up.

Not exactly but I guess your way of reasoning.

Can you develop this idea?
And remember what I said about literality.

Forcibly remove/expel someone?

Maybe not physically, but by giving someone the cold shoulder?

This associates well with booting sb. The rest doesn`t.

However, the mystery of literality is still unsolved.

Let`s start from the beginning. How should we imagine booting sb in detail if we aim at literality???

Hint: what is the primary meaning of BOOT in English??????????????????

Leaving my imprint on their backside...

Hint 2: in case you still don`t know, check it in Goggle images. :):)::):):)

Something you wear on your feet. When I said leaving my imprint in post 137 I meant boot imprint. If it's not that I have no idea.

Imprint which was left in a forcible way.
What do I mean???
Hint: I meant treating sb with your boots.
What do I mean??? ):):):)

Exactly. If you leave an imprint it's because you've kicked/hit someone hard.
I can't think of anything else.

Exactly!!!! Booting sb means kicking him/her. Usually used in the context of the attacker kicking his/her victim lying on the ground.
The case is solved. :):):)

That's what I meant in post 137 but I took it for granted that you would know I meant that.


We got there in the end by going round in circles :)

Not quite.
Firstly, you should have said footprint instead of an imprint. Imprint can be left with various objects, while footprint mostly with your foot or sth you wear on it. :):):)
Secondly, leaving an imprint on sb`s behind suggests a single kick in the ass. While booting is a series of kicks all over the body of a usually defenseless opponent on the ground. :):):)

Given that the idiom is about the word boot, what else did you think that I'd leave an imprint with?

Hair splitting at its finest :):)

Especially funny since he (true to his teacher profession) prefers rules based translation rather than contextual translation.

This is why he thought 'sticky' rather than 'stick-like' was an appropriate translation of 'kijowy' and 'herby' rather than 'little herb' was an appropriate translation of ziólko...

Contextually 'imprint' is fine especially if the context is about boots.

Quite.

Booting just means to kick or to kick out, depending on context.

It's rare though. To give someone the boot is more normal, though there's no implication of boot prints.

And he's wrong to boot - if you'll excuse the pun! You don't leave a footprint on a person with your boot. You leave the print of your boot. If it were a court case for assault and somebody had been kicked that hard, the prosecution would be saying that imprints of the attacker's boot were to be seen, not the attacker's footprints.

Does the word bootprints exist?

Not as a single word, but the term 'boot prints' can be used. However you'll see it written as a noun, 'bootprint' even though it's not strictly correct, unlike footprint.