thanks for translation help!

[Krystyna Steiger]

Thanks to all of you who helped me with this phrase.  All of the suggestions 
were great, but the one that suited the given context best was "You have to 
make a big deal out of everything," so, I sacrificed the pot/nose.
Sincere thanks, again, and Happy New Year/Decade,
Krystyna
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From: "Deborah Hoffman" <lino59 at AMERITECH.NET>
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Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:05 AM
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A finger in every pie? The idiom indicates more of a busybody to me but with 
overtones of a troublemaker.

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>"FRISON Philippe" <Philippe.FRISON at COE.INT>



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>Hello,
>
>It seems to me, the expression means "you cannot help interfering in 
>others' business".
>
>Being French, I do not know such quolocoquial equivalents in English, which
>would be as straightforrward as the Russian expression.
>(In French, I would suggest "Il faut toujours que tu fourres ton nez dans 
>les affaires des >autres", although the image of "others' pot" get's lost).
>
>Philippe Frison
>(Strasbourg, France)
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>[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Krystyna Steiger
>.Sent: mercredi 30 décembre 2009 07:07
>To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] translation help>

>>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
>>p, 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
Deborah Hoffman
Russian > English Translator

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