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Quote of the weekQuote of the weekPosted Oct 14, 2004 7:02 UTC (Thu) by lacostej (guest, #2760)Parent article: Quote of the week
"Sod off"
can someone explain what does that mean to a non English speaker? My dictionary didn't help me much.
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Quote of the week Posted Oct 14, 2004 7:57 UTC (Thu) by tgb (guest, #745) [Link] A toned-down alternative might be:
"Get Lost"
or
"I'm not in the slightest bit interested in your offer"
It's a bit less restrained than that though.
Gareth
Quote of the week Posted Oct 14, 2004 8:41 UTC (Thu) by gnb (subscriber, #5132) [Link] Most complete sentences in English that match '(\w+)\s+off' mean pretty muchthe same thing, $1 is usually not polite.
Quote of the week Posted Oct 14, 2004 10:21 UTC (Thu) by xav (guest, #18536) [Link] Yes. Translated in French, that would be 'Va te faire(\s\w)+' ...
Quote of the week Posted Oct 26, 2004 18:00 UTC (Tue) by JCCyC (guest, #22357) [Link] Hey, if it's good enough for the Vice President of the United States it's good enough for kernel hackers! ;)
Quote of the week Posted Oct 14, 2004 14:39 UTC (Thu) by wjhenney (guest, #11768) [Link] Wikipedia is your friend: Sod, a pejorative term, probably an abbreviation for sodomite.Actually, "Sod off!" is pretty mild in British english, and I doubt many people who use it think about the homophobic etymology. I guess about halfway along the continuum between "¡Vete al diablo!" and "¡Chinga tu madre!" in Mexican spanish.
Quote of the week Posted Oct 16, 2004 11:24 UTC (Sat) by juanjux (guest, #11652) [Link] "Vete al diablo" is only used in pirate films :), considering what you have explained about the meaning of "sod" I guess it would be more like the more common (in spain spanish): "vete a tomar por culo".
sod off = go away Posted Oct 16, 2004 21:54 UTC (Sat) by adren (guest, #20906) [Link] I tried http://onelook.com and got :
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/s.htm
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