Suggestion for Khrustit pod nogami

[John Dunn]

Such is the sheltered life I lead, I have never heard the word 'wazoo'.   I am increasingly coming round to Paul Gallagher's amended version of what I had initially suggested with no great enthusiasm, but I have another query, which concerns the phrase 'как говорят'.  Do you:
1) Translate it more or less literally, even though you are not convinced that people do really say why you are about to put, on the grounds that the same anomaly was already present in the original;
2) Simply omit it;
3) Replace it with something like 'so to speak', which would seem more logical in the context. 

I can see arguments for and against all three options.

John Dunn.
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Sent: 22 November 2011 21:31
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Suggestion for Khrustit pod nogami

NOTE: Earlier I tried posting a reply to Paul Gallagher's query and his exchange with John Dunn on "khrustit pod nogami," but I must have messed up the recipe. Hope it works this time.

You might try "thick on the ground." It's not a locution that springs automatically to my mind when wrestling with such an idiom, but I actually heard someone on the radio use it the other day, and a google search brings up numerous citations and definitions, all relating to plentiful abundance. Xot' otbavliai!

There is also a commonly heard colloquialism, which sometime appears in print but is no doubt too vulgar for this case, involving the phrase "out the wazoo." That choice would require a slight recasting of the phrase it appears in.
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