English term
21 books translated
Native in: Russian 
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English, Spanish to Russian, and 1 more.
will have peaceful butterflies in your bedroom
Sleep disorders, in fact millions of people. If you are like me, and don't entirely trust the ads that are flooding our media to suggest that prescription medication for insomnia, will have peaceful butterflies in your bedroom, or have you dose under a crescent moon.
Does "will have peaceful butterflies in your bedroom" mean "will make you feel calm and sleepy"?
Thank you.
Non-PRO (2): Cilian O'Tuama, Yvonne Gallagher
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United Kingdom
poetically precise prose with... panache
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English
will fill your bedroom with butterflies fluttering peacefully...
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Note added at 14 mins (2014-02-18 11:13:50 GMT)
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PS, pity about all those misplaced commas in the ST!
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Note added at 14 mins (2014-02-18 11:14:20 GMT)
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PPS, always assuming that this is a translation...!
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Thayenga
: Yes. Watching butterlies fluttering about does have a calming effect, one that can put you alseep eventually. :). // Oh it does, so you figured correctly. ;)
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Thanks Thayenga! I imagine it might have a soporific effect :)
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Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK)
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
nice and peaceful/calm
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Note added at 8 mins (2014-02-18 11:08:06 GMT)
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I think the writer might be getting their idioms mixed up
"butterflies in your stomach/tummy" =feeling nervous
so, by adding the word "peaceful" they want to give the impression that the bedroom is like a summer garden with butterflies fluttering around...
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Note added at 1 hr (2014-02-18 12:40:10 GMT)
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this is probably the ad Jessica trying to remember
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu0rXFhsM8w
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Note added at 6 hrs (2014-02-18 17:50:01 GMT)
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So, it seems, now I've had a chance to look at the ad (never saw it before) this writer IS basically saying that ads like these for insomnia medication are really claiming more than they can deliver...
All these people sleeping peacefully with a butterfly fluttering from house to house...oh and there is a "crescent moon" in the sky as well (at end of ad...)
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Note added at 22 hrs (2014-02-19 09:57:39 GMT)
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The English is still a bit OTT as there is only ONE butterfly (not plural) though really butterflies are usually diurnal while moths fly at night, but then people don't really rave about beautiful moths either, do they?
Also, I saw a couple of refs. to white butterflies" (which this one seems to be) being the symbol of death so, does this mean people sleep like the dead???
http://kc.8m.com/bflysym.html
Reference comments
United States
Expect excellent English
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian)
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English
watch for a minute and the butterfly will appear
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Note added at 14 hrs (2014-02-19 01:11:22 GMT)
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moths, not butterflies
| Thank you, Jessica. |
| agree |
Yvonne Gallagher
: I actually posted the ad itself already at 1 hr.
10 hrs
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