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    Валять дурака

    Помогите кто-нибудь на предмет эквивалента. Как по английски в таких случаях говорят?
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    mess around/f**k around
    вроде бы что то ещё с around было...

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    Lingvo lists it as "• валять дурака — to idle." You could also use more colloquial expressions like "to mess around," "to dink around," "to lie around," etc., just like Misnomer said.
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    Be careful with Misnomer's translation - those two phrases could also be interpreted as having a sexual connotation:

    "Me and this girl messed around last night"
    "We just f*!@#ed around... the relationship wasn't serious"

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    I was pretty sure "валять дурака" was "to pretend to be stupid"/"don't play the fool" or is there a different phrase I am thinking about?
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    Как по-английски....
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    Quote Originally Posted by tdk2fe
    Be careful with Misnomer's translation - those two phrases could also be interpreted as having a sexual connotation:

    "Me and this girl messed around last night"
    "We just f*!@#ed around... the relationship wasn't serious"

    tdk
    If you're worried about the sexual connotation of "mess around" (which is a rather limited connotation, I think), you can replace it with "goof off."

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    Quote Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
    I was pretty sure "валять дурака" was "to pretend to be stupid"/"don't play the fool" or is there a different phrase I am thinking about?
    That's a humorous way to describe the hard process of doing nothing trying very hard to make it look as if you were actually doing something
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    Quote Originally Posted by challenger
    Quote Originally Posted by tdk2fe
    Be careful with Misnomer's translation - those two phrases could also be interpreted as having a sexual connotation:

    "Me and this girl messed around last night"
    "We just f*!@#ed around... the relationship wasn't serious"

    tdk
    If you're worried about the sexual connotation of "mess around" (which is a rather limited connotation, I think), you can replace it with "goof off."
    Look at the song in my another thread here. Sexual connotation is allright here, because that's EXACTLY what they were doing.
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    Re: Валять дурака

    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    Помогите кто-нибудь на предмет эквивалента. Как по английски в таких случаях говорят?
    fu*k around (with smth/smbd)

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    Re: Валять дурака

    Quote Originally Posted by Chuvak
    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    Помогите кто-нибудь на предмет эквивалента. Как по английски в таких случаях говорят?
    fu*k around (with smth/smbd)
    Так говорят только плохо воспитанные подростки. Почему всегда надо употреблять f*ck. Без него в английском языке слов мало?
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    Re: Валять дурака

    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    Quote Originally Posted by Chuvak
    Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
    Помогите кто-нибудь на предмет эквивалента. Как по английски в таких случаях говорят?
    fu*k around (with smth/smbd)
    Так говорят только плохо воспитанные подростки. Почему всегда надо употреблять f*ck. Без него в английском языке слов мало?
    Конечно нет!!! (Просто это мое самое любимое слово!!! )

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barmaley
    Lingvo lists it as "• валять дурака — to idle." You could also use more colloquial expressions like "to mess around," "to dink around," "to lie around," etc., just like Misnomer said.
    "Dink"? That's not something I've ever heard.

    "Goof off" sounds more sexual to me than "mess around". Neither of them sound very sexual to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seventh-Monkey
    Quote Originally Posted by Barmaley
    Lingvo lists it as "• валять дурака — to idle." You could also use more colloquial expressions like "to mess around," "to dink around," "to lie around," etc., just like Misnomer said.
    "Dink"? That's not something I've ever heard.

    "Goof off" sounds more sexual to me than "mess around". Neither of them sound very sexual to me.
    I think "around" is more sexual than "off."

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    All these though, do have only a CONTEXTUAL meaning of sexual activity. I can think of dozens of other scenarios where you could use them, and they'd be perfectly fine and devoid of any sexual meaning.
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    I think any word can have a sexual meaning, given enough imagination... here is a list of words that, in the right context, can be very dirty:
    eat
    gang
    cherry
    lick
    stuff
    and the worst of all...: kebab
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    Exactly. Even Kalinka and Vinnie can be awful. Consider:
    She showed him her kalinka.
    He slipped her a vinnie!
    I got barmaley'd last night.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barmaley
    Exactly. Even Kalinka and Vinnie can be awful. Consider:
    She showed him her kalinka.
    He slipped her a vinnie!
    I got barmaley'd last night.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barmaley
    Exactly. Even Kalinka and Vinnie can be awful. Consider:
    She showed him her kalinka.
    He slipped her a vinnie!
    I got barmaley'd last night.
    Kalinka, Barmaley... You are super!
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    Kebab?
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