English term
it's for the birds cheap, cheap, cheap...
*At the furniture store - bookcase
Store Keeper: How do you like that?
Customer: Normal kind of price, I think.
Store Keeper: Yeah, that's what I say, it's for the birds cheap, cheap, cheap...
Thank you
| 4 +5 | cheap (= inexpensive) sound like cheep (sound birds make) |
Tony M
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| 4 +2 | inexpensive |
Bridgette Mitchell
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Nov 8, 2020 16:02: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "play on words"
Nov 8, 2020 16:46: Rachel Fell changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): Catharine Cellier-Smart, Tony M, Rachel Fell
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cheap (= inexpensive) sound like cheep (sound birds make)
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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Thanks, Tina!
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Yvonne Gallagher
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Thanks, Yvonne!
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writeaway
: This will hold until someone posts an answer in Farsi https://www.proz.com/kudoz/english-to-farsi-persian/general-...
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Thanks, W/A! I think Asker is just trying to understand the pun in EN so they can find a way to translate it.
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josué arno monjengue nkoum
: to go on with the play of words it is also known that birds don't buy anything as in the Bible it is said ''if God feeds the birds that do not work nor pay, whatabout the human being...''
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Merci, Josué !
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AllegroTrans
: Yes, the storekeeper clearly has verbal diarrhea
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Thanks, C! I think they think humour sells!
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United Kingdom
Natural translation of Japanese to EN
Native in: English 
Works in: Japanese to English, English
inexpensive
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Yvonne Gallagher
: yes but Tony got there first
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Yes that is true, but our answers were 1 minute apart I think we typed them at the same time as there was not an answer yet when I started typing
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AllegroTrans
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