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Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Слово за слово до базарчика
Literally like a rowdy bazaar

Слово за́ слово is a set phrase that means something like ‘a dialog turning into a fight’.

An example from a dictionary:

Слово за слово — схватились. Он мне два зуба вышиб, а я ему нос набок своротил.
Well, one word led to another, and we came to blows. He knocked two of my teeth out, and I bashed his nose sideways.

Базар is also a criminal-slang word for dialog or chatting.

(sorry for my terrible English…)

Originally Posted by Soft sign

Слово за́ слово is a set phrase that means something like ‘a dialog turning into a fight’.

An example from a dictionary:


Базар is also a criminal-slang word for dialog or chatting.

(sorry for my terrible English…)

Your English seems flawless to me. (But in this context, instead of "a dialog turning into a fight", I would probably say "a conversation turning into an loud argument".

Викисловарь offers this figurative meaning of "базар":

2. перен. шум, крики, громкая брань

This makes sense to me, because when I was an American child living in Turkey, we would buy most of our bread, cheese, vegetables, and fruits at the Turkish "pazar", which was always a noisy, chaotic place.

(But usually we bought fresh meat, eggs, and milk through the American military commissary, where the hygiene standards were much more strict!)

So, as a very loose "video translation" of this verse:

А ларечек тот типа барчика
Слово за слово до базарчика
Из девяточки русский рэпачок
Нужен ножечек, если не качек

...позвольте меня представить этот ролик, из 1980-го амер. к/ф "Airplane!":



"The mood in the place was downright ugly...
"You wouldn't walk in there unless you knew how to use your fists...
"You could count on a fight breaking out almost every night."

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Your English seems flawless to me. (But in this context, instead of "a dialog turning into a fight", I would probably say "a conversation turning into an loud argument".

"a fight" is correct. Meaning leading to a "physical outcome" of an argument.

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Викисловарь offers this figurative meaning of "базар":

2. перен. шум, крики, громкая брань

This makes sense to me, because when I was an American child living in Turkey, we would buy most of our bread, cheese, vegetables, and fruits at the Turkish "pazar", which was always a noisy, chaotic place.

I suspect that is exactly the origin of the word.
Although in criminal slang "базар" means any kind of dialog or monologue. отвечать за базар — Викисловарь