Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
Пожалуйте на оправку
English translation:
freshening up
Added to glossary by
Turdimurod Rakhmanov
Sep 15, 2017 06:52
6 yrs ago
Russian term
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Native in: English
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Пожалуйте на оправку
Russian to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
From a description of a Soviet prison:
Пожалуйте на оправку! Это означало - в уборную...
The meaning is clear from the following sentence, but I'm at a loss as to what the English equivalent would be.
Пожалуйте на оправку! Это означало - в уборную...
The meaning is clear from the following sentence, but I'm at a loss as to what the English equivalent would be.
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(English)
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Sep 17, 2017 08:41: Turdimurod Rakhmanov Created KOG entry
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Turdimurod Rakhmanov
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Education, Legal, Technical & Medical
Native in: Uzbek (Variants: Samarkand-Bukhara, Khorezm, Tashkent, Ferghana valley) 
, Kirghiz
Works in: English to Uzbek, English to Kirghiz, English to Kazakh, and 26 more.
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31
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freshening up
Freshening up - общий потому что, оправка не только означает уборную, и есть другие значения, например оправка одежды
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you!"
55 mins
Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
Specializes in field
United Kingdom
Translator since 1953
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, German to English, English
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658
Go for a crap
Or go for a s***. (This question should have been given the "might offend" rating).
1 hr
Andrei Moiseev
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in Russian
&
English
Specializes in field
United Kingdom
Lost in translation? Call Andrei!
Native in: Russian 
, English
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English, Spanish to English, and 11 more.
Time for a relief
Could be many options :)
Оправка = отправление естественных нужд
In Gulag camps, prisoners were allowed to go to a special place 1-2 times a day where they could "do their business", at all other time they were forced to do it in their cells where the closet basin was shared between many people.
Оправка = отправление естественных нужд
In Gulag camps, prisoners were allowed to go to a special place 1-2 times a day where they could "do their business", at all other time they were forced to do it in their cells where the closet basin was shared between many people.
+1
3 hrs
Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
United States
United States
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United States
On time, on target, on budget.
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97
Go to the outhouse/john/////Hit the loo.
to go to the john
To go pee.
To go poop.
To go the washroom, the restroom.
Wait a sec! I have to go to the john! Wont be long!
Yeah we have to wait for her, she's at the john.
#jonh#toilette#washroom#johns#pee#poop
by Neveron90 July 01, 2009
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=to go to the ...
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Excuse me, I have to go to the john. man, that guy seems to spend hours in the john
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/john
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A john is a toilet or bathroom.
[US , informal]
I've got to go to the john.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/john
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An outhouse, also known by many other names, is a small structure, separate from a main building, which covers one or more toilets. This is typically either a pit latrine (long drop) or a bucket toilet, but other forms of dry (non-flushing) toilets may be encountered. The term may also be used to denote the toilet itself, not just the superstructure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outhouse
Put your coat and boots back on and...off you go to the outhouse.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqCkBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT83&lpg=P...
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Hit the loo is British.
To go pee.
To go poop.
To go the washroom, the restroom.
Wait a sec! I have to go to the john! Wont be long!
Yeah we have to wait for her, she's at the john.
#jonh#toilette#washroom#johns#pee#poop
by Neveron90 July 01, 2009
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=to go to the ...
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Excuse me, I have to go to the john. man, that guy seems to spend hours in the john
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/john
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A john is a toilet or bathroom.
[US , informal]
I've got to go to the john.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/john
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An outhouse, also known by many other names, is a small structure, separate from a main building, which covers one or more toilets. This is typically either a pit latrine (long drop) or a bucket toilet, but other forms of dry (non-flushing) toilets may be encountered. The term may also be used to denote the toilet itself, not just the superstructure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outhouse
Put your coat and boots back on and...off you go to the outhouse.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqCkBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT83&lpg=P...
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Hit the loo is British.
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Dylan Edwards
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
Native in: English (Variant: British)
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68
Time for a visit
I think this is all that's necessary in English, because the words are immediately followed by an explanation.
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https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1904380565
Two other young offenders returned after a toilet visit smelling of fresh tobacco. The introduction of a cigarette ban had increased the demand for comfort breaks ...
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0932415849
On the morning of my fourth day in prison, Ribka asked me to skip the afternoon toilet visit. If she is a spy, I thought, I cannot believe she would be that open.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1843430851
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - 2003 - Authors, Russian
Prison. Visits from relatives were forbidden in 1937 and never renewed. ... the toilets with a portable lantern after each toilet visit and searched in each hole.
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"Visit" is immediately explained as a visit to the toilet, so there's no ambiguity!
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Note added at 11 hrs (2017-09-15 18:07:16 GMT)
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https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1904380565
Two other young offenders returned after a toilet visit smelling of fresh tobacco. The introduction of a cigarette ban had increased the demand for comfort breaks ...
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0932415849
On the morning of my fourth day in prison, Ribka asked me to skip the afternoon toilet visit. If she is a spy, I thought, I cannot believe she would be that open.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1843430851
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - 2003 - Authors, Russian
Prison. Visits from relatives were forbidden in 1937 and never renewed. ... the toilets with a portable lantern after each toilet visit and searched in each hole.
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"Visit" is immediately explained as a visit to the toilet, so there's no ambiguity!
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Turdimurod Rakhmanov
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Education, Legal, Technical & Medical
Native in: Uzbek (Variants: Samarkand-Bukhara, Khorezm, Tashkent, Ferghana valley) , Kirghiz
Works in: English to Uzbek, English to Kirghiz, English to Kazakh, and 26 more.
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31
Reference:
time for the call of nature / time for (satisfying) the needs of nature
time for the call of nature / time for (satisfying) the needs of nature
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1. Defecation - оправка если перевести дословно https://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?t=7088602_1_2&s1=�������
2. Freshening up - общий потому что, оправка не только означает уборную, и есть другие значения, например оправка одежды
3. Taking a biological break - это тоже подходящий термин в этом случае, но в других случаях, biological не подходит
4. Cardillac- Time for, Welcome to Cardillac US prison term-also means toilet, because, in prison, toilets have no seats and nothing to lift.
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1. Defecation - оправка если перевести дословно https://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?t=7088602_1_2&s1=�������
2. Freshening up - общий потому что, оправка не только означает уборную, и есть другие значения, например оправка одежды
3. Taking a biological break - это тоже подходящий термин в этом случае, но в других случаях, biological не подходит
4. Cardillac- Time for, Welcome to Cardillac US prison term-also means toilet, because, in prison, toilets have no seats and nothing to lift.
Reference:
Note from asker:
| Please post "freshening up" as an answer. That's probably the closest and is not as crude as the other suggestions. Perhaps "use the facilities" or "relieve yourself" would also work. In any case, I'd like to award you the points! Thank you also for the colorful list of bathroom euphemisms! |
Discussion
Freshen up означает и "посетит в туалет", и "приводит себя в порядок"
Русское слово "оправка" именно имеет такое значение, более близкий вариант. https://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?l1=1&l2=2&s=freshen up
freshen somebody up-to make someone or something clean and pleasant
I would suggest "Freshening up" and "take a biological break" or "call of nature"
Please, see here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_toilet_slang
If you want to use real US prison slang there is a word "Cadillac" for toilet. because, toilets in prison have no seats and nothing to lift.
But the Russian word "оправку" is more general with the meaning "to put your things in order or correct yourself" for ex. clothes, etc. in other contexts.