Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
twiddling our twinkies
Dutch translation:
met onbenullige zaken bezighouden
Added to glossary by
Jorim De Clercq
Feb 12, 2015 13:56
9 yrs ago
English term
Ecuador
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, Flemish
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twiddling our twinkies
English to Dutch
Art/Literary
Linguistics
- She was also a big help getting this testing completed and she just wanted some time to herself, that’s all.
- What are you trying to say?
- It’s just that, you make allowances for people to handle their personal lives, right?
- Yes, I do, but not for sick dogs, and not without notice. And it’s between me and her.
- But it’s not, it affects all of us. Sometimes it feels like you treat people differently. That’s all I’m saying.
- Okay. I will think about what you said, but right now we all have more important things to do than twiddling our twinkies.
This looks like an expression. Is there a good translation for this?
Thanks!
- What are you trying to say?
- It’s just that, you make allowances for people to handle their personal lives, right?
- Yes, I do, but not for sick dogs, and not without notice. And it’s between me and her.
- But it’s not, it affects all of us. Sometimes it feels like you treat people differently. That’s all I’m saying.
- Okay. I will think about what you said, but right now we all have more important things to do than twiddling our twinkies.
This looks like an expression. Is there a good translation for this?
Thanks!
Proposed translations
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Proposed translations
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Bea Geenen
Native in Dutch
Chinese/English/Spanish/German/French
Native in: Dutch 
Works in: Chinese to Dutch, English to Dutch, Spanish to Dutch, and 2 more.
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met onbenullige zaken bezighouden
"Twiddle ones thumbs" is "met de duimen draaien". Je "twinky" is je pink, dus letter "met de pinken draaien": je met onbenulligheden bezighouden.
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* "letterlijk"
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* "letterlijk"
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Comment: "Bedankt!"
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Barend van Zadelhoff
Netherlands
Netherlands
Native in Dutch
Netherlands
TR is the most intimate act of reading.
Native in: Dutch
Works in: English to Dutch, Dutch to English, Dutch
ons over te geven aan filosofische bespiegelingen
iets dergelijks
filosofische bespiegelingen - staat voor onpraktisch bezig zijn
Okay. I will think about what you said, but right now we all have more important things to do than twiddling our twinkies.
I will think about
our twinkies = what we are thinking
twiddle what we are thinking
twiddle - 'zich overgeven aan'
filosofische bespiegelingen - staat voor onpraktisch bezig zijn
Okay. I will think about what you said, but right now we all have more important things to do than twiddling our twinkies.
I will think about
our twinkies = what we are thinking
twiddle what we are thinking
twiddle - 'zich overgeven aan'
3 hrs
jan en sas
Netherlands
Netherlands
Native in English
&
Dutch
Netherlands
Native in: Dutch (Variant: Netherlands) , English
Works in: English to Dutch, German to Dutch, Frisian to Dutch, and 1 more.
Omhangen/ niets doen/ niet productief zijn
Het verwijst naar passief zijn in diverse vormen
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Nederlandse vertaling is , duimen draaien.
While waiting for the phonecall, all I could do was twiddle my twinkies
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Nederlandse vertaling is , duimen draaien.
While waiting for the phonecall, all I could do was twiddle my twinkies
Example sentence:
Terwijl jij bezig bent op de computer, kan ik niets doen
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Kitty Brussaard
Netherlands
Netherlands
Native in Dutch
Works in field
Netherlands
Business Language Solutions
Native in: Dutch (Variant: Netherlands)
Works in: English to Dutch, Dutch to English, Dutch
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4
in context
De meest natuurlijke vertaling voor deze uitdrukking binnen de context van de gehele zin is wat mij betreft:
Ik zal erover nadenken maar op dit moment hebben we belangrijkere zaken aan ons hoofd.
Ik zal erover nadenken maar op dit moment hebben we belangrijkere zaken aan ons hoofd.
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