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[Oleg Pashuk]

Here are a few more expressions:

"You just have to stick your head everywhere, don't you?"
"Can't you just mind your own business?"
"Did anybody ask you to do that?"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] translation help


> Krystyna Steiger wrote:
>
>> Oleg,
>> the oldest tenant of a communal apartment goes missing. Some of the
>> other tenants think she may have died in her room. The District
>> Inspector shows up, and on his orders a locksmith jimmies open the
>> door to the room; the woman is not inside. Hence, the policeman and
>> the rest of the tenants assume she has gone out, no harm no foul. But
>> not Belotsvetov, who insists to fellow-tenant Chinarikov that
>> something is fishy, at which point the latter utters the phrase in
>> question: "В каждый горшок тебе надо плюнуть"
>>
>> Thanks Oleg (and Tim)
>
> Reminds me of the waiter/waitress practice of spitting in an unpleasant
> customer's food/drink, though of course that's not directly relevant.
>
> Here are some candidate expressions; the Russians will have to say which
> is most faithful to the original sense:
>
> You always have to stir the pot/stir up trouble, don't you?
>
> You can't let sleeping dogs lie, can you?
>
> You just can't let well enough alone, can you?
>
> Pick, pick, pick...
>
> Must you spoil everything?
>
>
> Interesting coincidence that плевать/плюнуть are used in so many
> expressions of indifference, but I don't see that it helps us here.
>
> -- 
> War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
> --
> Paul B. Gallagher
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