Spitting nails in Czech
Edil Legno
peitlova at TISCALINET.IT
Mon Apr 5 09:01:23 UTC 2004
- silena vzteky , or - besnici seem to be enogh expressive.
Katarìna Peitlovà ,Ph.Dr.
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From: "Leslie Farmer" <Zemedelec at AOL.COM>
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Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 3:08 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Spitting nails in Czech
> A Czech Californian friend who has published several books in Czechia is
> looking to me for a Czech equivalent of "She was mad enough to spit
nails." Your
> correspondent was referring to her redheaded mother, who probably could
have
> produced napalm on the spot when she go mad enough. Is there one?
Zuriva/
> zurit jako pominuta all seem to lack the excessive, explosive quality of
the US
> slang. Any clues?
>
>
>
> Leslie
>
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