пляска на костях

English translation: dance on someone's grave

23:46 Mar 27, 2009

Russian to English translations [PRO]
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Russian term or phrase: пляска на костях

есть ли аналогичное выражение в английском?
пляска на костях --означает желание стремление и действие кого-либо нажить политический, социальный, материальный или любой другой капитал, получить выгоду, от факта чьей-либо смерти. Буду благодарна и за рассказ о происхождении этого довольно варварского выражения..

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English translation:dance on someone's grave

Explanation:
dance on someone's grave

to profit from someone's misfortune
That guy who wants to own a monoploly won't be dancing on anyones grave when the police notice.

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Kirill Semenov
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Local time: 00:20

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dance on someone's grave

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http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Grave_Dancing

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Tevah_Trans

gutbuster, i love how you source YOUR info

02:22 Mar 29, 2009

Thanks for a wise remark there gutbuster, you got anything to back yourself up? Because as I said, I have seen those records myself, and remember them and what they were called. I am generally here to contribute fact-based info, but what I have seen of you has thus far been contemptuous and rather unfounded. But thanks for your brilliance here, though.

Alexandra Taggart

Russian Federation

00:06 Mar 29, 2009

откуда- то из Jack London's "Tales ofcannibals and headhunters".

Alexandra Taggart

Russian Federation

23:53 Mar 28, 2009

" To dance on someone's grave" и его русский эквивалент означает - " я вас всех переживу, вы все подохните и всё достанется мне". Принципиально неважно к кому выражение относится "я", "он", в русский язык оно пришло из книжек о диком западе, золоте Аляски

333monkeys

United Kingdom

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bugi vugi on the bones

13:39 Mar 28, 2009

yes, I ve heard as well on old x-rays
it was called bugi on the bones...

but it seems to me the expression is older... by origin....

gutbuster

Tevah_Trans, you must be kidding

04:29 Mar 28, 2009

your story is an old wives' fable

Tevah_Trans

01:57 Mar 28, 2009

So, although your interpretation is poetic and cute, it is probably a derivation of the original, very "russian of the socialist regime" meaning.

Tevah_Trans

01:55 Mar 28, 2009

with an ingenious way to record music. They took old x-rays and recorded music on them and played them on record players (I remember, my uncle had a few of those). So people would dance to the music that was recorded on old x-rays - hence, на костях!!

Tevah_Trans

01:53 Mar 28, 2009

It just so happened that I discussed this exact expression with someone at the American Translators Association conference 2 years ago. What it really means is the following. Back during the 70s and 80s, before the cassette players, the Russians came up

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dance on someone's grave

Kirill Semenov
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Reference: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Grave_Dancing

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