kvajebajer
English translation: eat humble pie
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| 1 | dunce's cap / fool's cap |
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eat humble pie Explanation: eat humble pie and give a round of beer I can't think of a precise translation for 'kvajebajer', but this is a suggestion. Concise Oxford Dictionary: humble ... PHRASES eat humble pie: make a humble apology and accept humiliation. [humble pie is from a pun based on umbles = 'offal', considered inferior food.] In the USA the equivalent expression is to eat crow. I have heard of 'idiot cake', which is frequently one that is easy to bake, so any idiot can do it, but may also be a cake offered at coffee time at work in the same way as a 'kvajebajer'. That is not the same as beer, however. |
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dunce's cap / fool's cap Explanation: dunce's cap / fool's cap sources: Dunce cap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia10 Jun 2009 ... A dunce cap, also variously known as a dunce hat, dunce's cap, or dunce's hat, is a pointy hat. In popular culture, it is typically made of ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunce_cap - Dunce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia8 Jul 2009 ... Dunces are often comedically shown wearing paper cone hats, known as dunce caps, with the word "dunce" or "dumb", or simply a capitalized ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunce - dunce cap: Definition from Answers.comdunce cap also dunce's cap n. A cone-shaped paper cap, formerly placed on the head of a slow or lazy pupil. www.answers.com/topic/dunce-cap - dunce cap - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online DictionaryMain Entry: dunce cap; Function: noun; Date: 1840. : a conical cap formerly used as a punishment for slow learners at school —called also dunce's cap ... www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dunce cap - Fool's cap Definition | Definition of Fool's cap at Dictionary.com1. a traditional jester's cap or hood, often multicolored and usually having several drooping peaks from which bells are hung. ... dictionary.reference.com/browse/Fool's%20cap - The Fool's Cap - Andrew Stuttaford - The Corner on National Review ...26 Jun 2008 ... ***The Fool's Cap [Andrew Stuttaford]. Here's environmentalist of doubt Bjorn Lomborg writing in the Washington Post on Lieberman-Warner*** and ... corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q... - -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2009-08-26 16:08:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- other options would be ***quackery*** and ***pseudoscience*** sources: Quackery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaQuackery is a derogatory term used to describe unproven or fraudulent medical practices. Random House Dictionary describes a "quack" as a "fraudulent or ... Definition - The quacksalver - History of quackery in Europe ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackery - quackery - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com23 Feb 2009 ... Quackery used to be a pejorative term describing medical charlatanism, i.e., health practices or remedies that have no compelling scientific ... www.skepdic.com/quackery.html - Pseudoscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPseudoscience is a methodology, belief, or practice that is claimed to be scientific, or that is made to appear to be scientific, but which does not adhere ... Background - Identifying pseudoscience - Demographics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience - pseudoscience - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com18 Apr 2009 ... There is nothing in the history of pseudoscience that compares with the convoluted kinds of reasoning creationists have used to argue that ... www.skepdic.com/pseudosc.html - |
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