Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Chicken feed

Ho trovato questa espressione. naturalmente credo sia idiomatica,
letteralmente non avrebbe senso. Dal contesto dovrebbe significare qualcosa
tipo "quisquile e pinzillacchere" :-p.
Confermate?
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Nico
"Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur oy"
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 Confermate?
Well I've never heard either of those Italian words and only managed to 
find "quisquilla" (a trifle) in my little dictionary, but I think you're 
on the right track: chicken feed is something of little value, a paltry 
sum, an insignficant item (usually an amount of money.)
But your two words brought to mind another idiomatic expression: "Mind 
your p's and q's", which means "pay attention to detail." It comes from 
the printing trade, from the (olden) days when printers' type used to be 
hand-set, individual slugs of lead. Naturally the characters are reversed 
on lead type so that when the impression is made on paper the character 
"reverses" to the correct form.
Because of that it is easy to confuse the letter "p" with the letter "q" 
when setting type; hence "Mind your p's and q's.
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I am Joey's Cat
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 Confermate?
Letteralmente ha senso ma forse non nel contesto in cui l'hai trovato.
Siccome non ci abbia dato il contesto non si puņ dire. Č un sostantivo e
vuol dire il mangiare per i polli. Ha anche un senso figurativo, che
significa poco soldi, insomma quisquile e pinzillacchere.

 Confermate?
Chicken feed can mean actual food for chickens. "Feed' is used as a
noun too. Stock feed.
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 pinzillacchere.
Grazie (anche agli altri) per avcermelo confermato. L'avevo intuito dal
contesto, ma l'espressione mi era nuova, quindi non ne ero sicuro. Il fatto
che mi confermiate che possa avere quel significa è una conferma definitiva.
P.S.:
Per chi non è italiano: "quisquilie e pinzillacchere" è preso da uno sketch
del grandissimo attore comico italiano Totò, è un modo un po' parossistico
per esprimere il concetto e strappare una risata sosituendolo a un asettico
"cose di poco conto". :-)
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... said the farmer's daughter. <ba-dum-bum> :)
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Grazie, Nico.
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 ... said the farmer's daughter. <ba-dum-bum> :)
Who're you calling a city slicker farmer's daughter? Where are my
dogs when I need 'em...
;-)
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Perhaps the neighbor's cat has them treed. ;-)
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 Perhaps the neighbor's cat has them treed. ;-)
I won't distress you by telling you how many cats they've chased.
Have you ever seen a cat run up a rose bush? I didn't think there was
anything to grab but it seemed to find something. Alas a higher power
has the dogs now, and several cats are sighing in relief. 
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, Loki wrote...
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Oh, I'm sorry... I thought they were just outside playing.
I've seen cats run up just about anything if they're scared enough. When 
I was very young, I watched two dogs tear my first cat apart in my front 
yard. I still remember it vividly. It didn't stop me from getting dogs 
later, though, nor did it stop me from getting other cats. Over the years 
I've had several of each. I think it's great when they're raised together 
and get along with each other.
http://www.endoscopy.com/images/dog-n-cat01.jpg
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 yard. I still remember it vividly.
Hmmm, it's horrid. I'm sorry.
Bye, FB
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L'importante è che risplenda tu, sola primadonna e immarcescibile leggenda
del tuo pianerottolo.
Lucangel

 
http://www.endoscopy.com/images/dog-n-cat01.jpg
that's lovely...
My cat's hated every other single animal since our goldfish died...
Time flew by, I was almost 9... and I can remember perfectly
they used to get along very well :-)

 Hmmm, it's horrid. I'm sorry.
but they didn't kill the cat (to tear apart non significa "molestare,
provocare"?)

, Ice wrote...
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I'm sorry to say they did kill the cat.
Tear apart means "fare a pezzi" according to my dictionary. That cat 
never saw another morning... no part of her did.
There is an expression "to tear up" that can mean the same thing 
literally, but it can also me it troubles me.
"It tears me up the way she looks at you."
"I don't need this report any more; tear it up."
NB: This is "tear" v. pr. teir, strappare, not the noun or verb "tear" 
pr. tiir, lacrima.
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 but they didn't kill the cat
Noo, uccisa no, ma squarciata sì, ehm. (faccina sorridente) Mi scuso per
l'indelicatezza.
Ciao, FB
-- 
Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. 'She was determined to drop his
acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been
acquainted with him at all'.

 
Yes, that's the word.
And now for something completely different...
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...love will tear us apart
Chi scrisse questa famosa frase ( con disco relativo) morì suicida
poco tempo dopo, non esattamente perché "straziato dall'amore".. ma
insomma facendo parte dei miei trascorsi musicali (anche se non sono
mai stato un fan particolare degli Joy Division) non sono riuscito a
trattenermi dal  citarlo, giusto "tanto per citarlo".
rollerbd

 "tanto per citarlo".
Sperimenti? "For the sake of it" penso sia una buona traduzione ancorché,
come tutte le traduzioni, non universale.
Ciao, FB
-- 
"Gli americani sono ignoranti per loro stessa natura"
that is "The Americans are naturally ignorant"
(Paolo Bonardi on it.cultura.linguistica)

come tutte le traduzioni, non universale.
Non sono certo di aver capito bene (eufemismo per dire "non ho capito
un tubo)...
Ti riferisci a "citarlo" al maschile rispetto a "frase" che è
femminile?
Mea Culpa (come al solito).. nella mia mente stavo citando il
cantante, anche se non lo avevo nominato ma solo sottinteso.
rollerbd
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 un tubo)...
Nemmeno io. (faccina sbalordina) Per qualche motivo ero convinto che quel
messaggio non fosse tuo ma di Ketzl, che è americano. Pensavo, perciò, che
quel "tanto per citarlo" fosse una forma che il nostro bostoniano aveva
imparato di recente.
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 l'indelicatezza.
Quindi. È meglio to drop the '(faccina sorridente)'. 
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http://www.endoscopy.com/images/dog-n-cat01.jpg
"oh look, dinner is tickling my nose."  ;-)
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 "oh look, dinner is tickling my nose."  ;-)
LOL!!!

 Quindi. È meglio to drop the '(faccina sorridente)'. 
It was a faint smile of sympathy.
Bye, FB
-- 
Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. 'She was determined to drop his
acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been
acquainted with him at all'. (Jane Austen)

 It was a faint smile of sympathy.
And "We" appreciated that.
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 It was a faint smile of sympathy.
hmmmm I didn't know one could smile in sympathy, grimace maybe. ;-/
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