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mentira deslavada

English translation: big fat lie

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Portuguese term or phrase:mentira deslavada
English translation:big fat lie
Entered by: Michael Powers (PhD)

21:39 Jun 11, 2009
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Portuguese term or phrase: mentira deslavada
Qual é a tradução de "mentira deslavada"? Muito obrigado.
Alexandre Reis
Brazil
Local time: 22:45
big fat lie
Explanation:
blasphemea: Mentira deslavada / Big fat lie
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Mentira deslavada / Big fat lie. Mentira deslavada é o que o boletim período livre do sinprors publicou sobre a assembléia que iniciou a paralisação dos ...
blasphemea.blogspot.com/2009/05/mentira-deslavada-big-fat-lie.html - Cached - Similar -

Mike :)
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Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 21:45
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +7big fat lie
Michael Powers (PhD)
5 +2a flat out lie
Erik Bry
4 +3outright lie
Jorge Rodrigues
5a bare faced lie
Arthur Godinho
5dirty lie
Susy Ordaz
4unabashed lie
rhandler


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
big fat lie


Explanation:
blasphemea: Mentira deslavada / Big fat lie
- [ Translate this page ]
Mentira deslavada / Big fat lie. Mentira deslavada é o que o boletim período livre do sinprors publicou sobre a assembléia que iniciou a paralisação dos ...
blasphemea.blogspot.com/2009/05/mentira-deslavada-big-fat-lie.html - Cached - Similar -

Mike :)

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 21:45
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mary Palmer
14 mins
  -> Thank you, Mary - Mike :)
agree  Sormane Gomes
29 mins
  -> Thank you, Sormane - Mike :)
agree  aoliveira09 (X)
35 mins
  -> Thank you, aoliveira09 - Mike :)
agree  Bentevi
4 hrs
  -> Thank you, Bentevi - Mike :)
agree  Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
9 hrs
  -> Thank you, Antonio Tomás - Mike :)
agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
11 hrs
  -> Thank you, Isabel Maria - Mike :)
agree  Drykka
18 hrs
  -> Thank you, Drykka - Mike :)
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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
a flat out lie


Explanation:
that's it

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Note added at 3 mins (2009-06-11 21:42:45 GMT)
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bold-faced lie

Erik Bry
Local time: 19:45
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marlene Curtis: The best answer!
1 hr
  -> :)
agree  delveneto: More than one good translation but my "google-o-meter" tells me this is the most used one.
3 hrs
  -> :)
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
outright lie


Explanation:
Minha sugestão.

Jorge Rodrigues
Brazil
Local time: 22:45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lumen (X): Excellent.
7 mins
  -> Thanks a lot, Lumen.
agree  Mary Palmer
11 mins
  -> Thanks, Mary.
agree  Melissa Mann
52 mins
  -> Thanks, Melissa.
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
a bare faced lie


Explanation:
Para ENG-USA.

Arthur Godinho
United States
Local time: 21:45
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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44 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
unabashed lie


Explanation:
Assim o diria, equivalente a "mentira sem-vergonha". Veja alguns exemplos:

Selling to Consumers | Sales Blog by Skip Anderson: You Might Be a ...
7 May 2009 ... ...tell a unabashed lie to your prospect ...don't do what you say you were going to do ...use colorful language in front of your prospects ...
http://blog.sellingtoconsumers.com/2009/05/you-might-be-a-sl...

Hope To Action: Women for a Greener Planet » Blog Archive » Global ...
12 Feb 2009 ... I resorted finally to an unabashed lie: “Oh, sure, the ice will be there!” I said, silently hoping that my oldest wouldn't argue (and he ...
www.hopetoaction.org/2009/02/global-warming-through-a-moms-...

Powazek: Just a Thought: SXSW to MPAA: STFU
And then I remembered all those awful anti-piracy trailers they make us watch before the movies we paid to see, the total unabashed lie of their "we just ...
http://powazek.com/2006/03/000571.html



rhandler
Local time: 22:45
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 26
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
dirty lie


Explanation:
dirty lie

Susy Ordaz
Local time: 02:45
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
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