Glossary entry

Italiano term or phrase:

Sbattuto fuori

Inglese translation:

kicked out/thrown out

Added to glossary by Lara Barnett
Jan 16, 2018 17:08
6 yrs ago
Italiano term

Sbattuto fuori

Da Italiano a Inglese Arte/Letteratura Generale/Conversazioni/Auguri/Lettere Character-based fiction
Writer-character has just met another guy will eventually turn out to be a great buddy and work associate. This is their first introduction to each other and writer-charracter, who is narrating this novel, has just found out that his future buddy is also a writer, working on screen plays for cinema, TV etc. He now asks about his new buddy's work::

“E di solito sono interessati?”
“Mai. Fino ad una settimana fa, lavoravo ai dialoghi di una soap. Sbattuto fuori a calci in culo.”
"Perché quei coglioni degli editor mi hanno massacrato la sceneggiatura. "

I don't know exactly what the sense is here.
Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (1): Michele Fauble

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Proposed translations

+4
7 min
Selected

kicked out/thrown out

literally "thrown out with kicks in the butt"



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Note added at 27 mins (2018-01-16 17:36:51 GMT)
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Re OP question: from the context it looks like he was kicked out of the job ("I worked/I used to work" - past tense).

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Note added at 28 mins (2018-01-16 17:37:45 GMT)
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"Up to a week ago", so no longer.

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Note added at 29 mins (2018-01-16 17:38:01 GMT)
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Sorry, "Until a week ago"
Note from asker:
Do you mean he was kicked out of his job, or he threw the script out?
Peer comment(s):

agree kringle : absolutely - love to know how you translate coglioni, Lara!
4 min
Thanks! (coglioni I would probably translate as a@@holes)
agree Isabelle Johnson
6 min
agree Lisa Jane
12 min
agree Michele Fauble
6 ore
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
9 min

Kicked out

He means that he was let go in a rude way and will no longer work on the dialogues of the soap opera.
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+3
14 min

tossed/thrown out on my ass

Another possibility that is more specific.
Peer comment(s):

agree Lisa Jane : or just "I was out on my arse/ass" http://www.dictionary.com/browse/out-on-one-s-ass
7 min
Thank you, Lisa Jane. You sound a bit Chaucerian with your use of "arse".
agree Michele Fauble
6 ore
Thank you, Michele.
agree James (Jim) Davis : @Barbara "arse" is modern British English for backside, while "ass" in modern British English is a donkey or figuratively an idiot: "the law is an ass", means the law has a very low IQ.
14 ore
Thank you, Jim.
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