dried cod

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0Is it OK to use dried cod metaphor? What about a ball of wool?Is it better to say mental or spiritual workout? What about mere/shere margins of sexuality?02br02br00Thank you very much02br02br02br02br00During the double life, you are fresh and more or less fit. 01font01font00You will not dry up like an old dried cod02font00, nor 01font00get lost02font00 like00 a ball of wool02font00. You will not need crosswords 00for 01font00mental/spiritual02font00 work out. You will not get or lose weight excessively. But, what am I writing 01font00about, about mere/sheer margins02font00 of sexuality, about sex in retirement, adultery in old age.02br02br0-

Nona the brit · Accepted Answer

0dry up like a dry thing is not a very good metaphor.02br
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00lost like a ball of wool? I'd say like a stray sock!02br
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00crosswords give you a mental workout not a spiritual one (unless it is a very odd crossword!)02br
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00neither mere nor sheer seem to fit here. 0-

Demetrius · Answer

0I would have said "dried up like an old prune"0-

Anonymous · Answer

0 Thank you. Can you tell me if it is OK to say I'm writing about margins of sexuality? Doe it make sense to you? 0-

Anonymous · Answer

0 And one more thing: How about I'm writing about the 01b00very02b00 margins of...? 0-

Antonija · Answer

0 How about: You will not get bone-dry? 0-

Davkett · Answer

0Because this is a translation, I assume that 01i00dried cod02i00 and 01i00ball of wool02i00 and 01i00margins02i00 are concepts to be preserved, so...what about--02br
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00During the double life, you are fresh and more or less fit. 01font01font00You will not00 shrivel 02font00up like an old dried cod, nor00 come unraveled00 like00 a 02font00ball of wool00. You will not need crosswords 00for 01font00a mental work-out02font00. You will not 01font00gain02font00 or lose weight excessively. But, what am I writing 01font00about00, the outer edges02font00 of sexuality, about *** in retirement, adultery in old age.0-

Antonija · Answer

0Hi, 02br
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00It doesn't have to be a literal translation. I can change it to some extent. I'm not sure about 01i00unraveled02i00 because I think that the author wants to say that if you cheat on your wife and lead an active *** life you will not become senile and, for instance, get lost (you know how old people sometimes get lost and do not know how to get to their own house even if they are only one block away from it?)02br
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00Thank you very much for your time and effort0-

Davkett · Answer

0Could you be looking for 01i01font00not getting 'wooly-headed'02font02i00? (American Heritage Dictionary: 01i01font01b002.02b00 Vague or muddled: wooly-headed ideas02font00.02i00 )0-

Kajjo · Answer

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01cite10Antonija12cite10During the double life, you are fresh and more or less fit. 11font11span11font10You will not dry up like an old dried cod12font12span10, nor 11span11font10get lost12font12span10 like10 a ball of wool12font10. You will not need crosswords 10for 11span11font10mental/spiritual12font12span10 work out. You will not get or lose weight excessively. But, what am I writing 11span11font10about, about mere/sheer margins12font12span10 of sexuality, about *** in retirement, adultery in old age.12br
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101. I like Davketts "shrivel up like a dried cod", but without the "old", which appears to be redundant.02br
002. spiritual = sort of religious; mental = relates to thinking (here: crosswords)02br
003. "But, what am I" sounds like a question. It is meant that way? Also, I don't see any reason for the "but"!02br
004. maybe "about the boundaries of sexuality"?02br
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00my suggestion:02br
00"What I am writing about is *** in retirement, adultery in old age, the 01u00last02u00 boundaries of sexuality!"02br
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00(this way the parts get more expressive, stimulating and verbose from left to right, which increases tension)02br
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00Kajjo0-

Antonija · Answer

0Hi Kajjo,02br
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00actually it is meant as a rethorical question.02br
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01i00But02i00 - I feel that the author is distancing herself from the previous text and saying: Hey, what have I been writing about in the first place? or why I am writing about *** in retirement at all? 0-

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