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Dear Brits - I need a translation

Started by Syt, June 24, 2009, 10:41:52 AM

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Syt

June 24, 2009, 10:41:52 AM
A colleague from the UK referred to the false claims by another colleague as "a load of codwollop".

Codwollop?  :huh:
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Brazen

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June 24, 2009, 10:48:08 AM Last Edit: June 24, 2009, 10:52:02 AM by Brazen
A Codswallop bottle. The glass ball kept the fizz in but allowed it to pour. Genius!


KRonn

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June 24, 2009, 10:48:22 AM
US and UK, separated by our "common" language.   :D

Brazen

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June 24, 2009, 10:52:36 AM
Anyway, a modern translation would be "a load of bollocks."

Syt

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June 24, 2009, 11:13:07 AM
Quote from: Brazen on June 24, 2009, 10:52:36 AM
Anyway, a modern translation would be "a load of bollocks."

I guessed so much, but I had never heard that particular expression. Thanks for the thorough explanation. :)
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Richard Hakluyt

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June 24, 2009, 11:48:27 AM
The bottle explanation looks like a load of cobblers to me. The connection with codpieces is much more likely IMO, vast numbers of British expressions refer to genital equipment, this looks like one of them. Brazen's translation is likely almost completely accurate, the advantage is that you can use "codswallop" in polite company.
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