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"Me encanta estar todo el día al pedo"

English translation: I love screwing around all day long.

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Spanish term or phrase:\"Me encanta estar todo el día al pedo\"
English translation:I love screwing around all day long.
Entered by: Mercedes Rizzuti

00:28 Apr 13, 2021
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Slang / relax and amusement
Spanish term or phrase: "Me encanta estar todo el día al pedo"
Hola. La frase pertenece a una canción argentina que dice: "Soy soltero, me encanta estar todo el día al pedo".
En Argentina "estar al pedo" es una forma grosera de decir estar sin hacer nada, algo como "I love fooling around all day", or "I love wasting my time all day", pero el tono debería ser un poco más grosero.
Espero sus sugerencias. Muchas gracias!
Mercedes Rizzuti
Local time: 13:52
I love screwing around all day long.
Explanation:
This is somewhat ruder and more coarse.
Selected response from:

Carole Wolfe
United States
Local time: 11:52
Grading comment
Thank you all. This is the answers that fits best in the script.

4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4I love screwing around all day long.
Carole Wolfe
4 +3I love to fart around all day.
Barbara Cochran, MFA
4 +2"I love messing about all day"
David Hollywood
3 +2I enjoy having sweet f all to do all day
patinba
3I love frittering away / tilting at windmills / pissing about
Felipe Tomasi
2 -1IrE: I am into buzzing around like a blue-arsed fly all day
Adrian MM.


  

Answers


53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
I love screwing around all day long.


Explanation:
This is somewhat ruder and more coarse.

Carole Wolfe
United States
Local time: 11:52
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you all. This is the answers that fits best in the script.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard
1 hr
  -> Gracias, Phil!
agree  neilmac: In Spain, "estar pedo/coger un pedo" can mean to be/get drunk or high...
6 hrs
  -> Gracias!
agree  Jeanie Eldon: or a British alternative: "to muck about/around"
8 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
14 hrs
  -> Thank you!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
"I love messing about all day"


Explanation:
could put it in stronger terms as in "f...ing"

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Note added at 1 hr (2021-04-13 01:36:15 GMT)
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the "f" word might be a tad too strong in a song but you never know with rockers

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Note added at 1 hr (2021-04-13 01:41:53 GMT)
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"fooling around" as an alternative option

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Note added at 1 hr (2021-04-13 01:42:30 GMT)
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covers a lot of bases :)

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Note added at 1 hr (2021-04-13 01:48:21 GMT)
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or just might mean "twiddling my thumbs"

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Note added at 1 hr (2021-04-13 01:50:29 GMT)
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"twiddling my thumbs" = Be bored or idle, as in There I sat for three hours, twiddling my thumbs, while he made call after call. This expression alludes to the habit of idly turning one's thumbs about one another during a period of inactivity.

David Hollywood
Local time: 13:52
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 48

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  liz askew
10 hrs
  -> thanks Liz
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
14 hrs
  -> thanks Yvonne
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
I love to fart around all day.


Explanation:
https://context.reverso.net/translation/spanish-english/esta...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2021-04-13 03:01:22 GMT)
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You will see here that "fart around" means to waste one's time": https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/f...

Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 12:52
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adrian MM.: BrE fart-arsing around www.wikiwords.org/dictionary/term/88112/175678
6 hrs
  -> Thank you, Adrian.
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: I love farting around...
12 hrs
  -> Yes, or "I love to do nothing more than fart around all day".
agree  Marcelo González
4 days
  -> Gracias, Marcelo.
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
I love frittering away / tilting at windmills / pissing about


Explanation:
Just other options.

Felipe Tomasi
Brazil
Local time: 13:52
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: the only one of these that's OK is the last one. Others are wrong
1 day 5 hrs
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): -1
IrE: I am into buzzing around like a blue-arsed fly all day


Explanation:
Not exactly an idling simile, but I've already added the BrE and OzE term of fart-arsing alternative to Barbara C's answer, whilst - note the conjunction, English grammarians - the example sentence is rather topical.

Funnily enough, I've only ever heard this expression from a Dubliner criticising my own behavio/u/r.



Example sentence(s):
  • The Duke of Edinburgh apparently annoyed ...asked a photographer if he was getting enough pictures. “I hope so, sir”, the photographer replied. “You should do”, the Duke said. “You have been running around like a blue-arsed fly.”—U.P.I.

    Reference: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/run+around+like+a+blue-a...
Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  patinba: Actually, this is probably the exact opposite of the meaning, as it implies rushing about being extremely busy, while someone who is "al pedo" is collapsed on the sofa with a six-pack//Pointless inactivity, in fact.
6 hrs
  -> There is still a residual meaning of pointless activity.
disagree  Yvonne Gallagher: opposite meaning//HUH??
6 hrs
  -> I actually entered this translation to draw your tactical vote.. // always against my answers.
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
I enjoy having sweet f all to do all day


Explanation:
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Feb 10, 2011 — ... living instead of relying on benefits the same benefits that my income tax pays for we can all campagne (?) when weve got sweet fa to do all day.

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Nov 20, 2020 — Probably Bertha and Tilda, 89 and 91 who have sweet f-a to do all day sent in those complaints... :^O. You must log in or register to reply here.

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All in all, a complete waste of time and effort -and that's taking into account I have sweet FA to do all day except avoid virus'. A shockingly bad service that just ...

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 13:52
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: yes, though I think "I love ..." is better here
16 hrs
  -> Yes. Thank you Yvonne!
agree  Marcelo González: Yes, I love doing f-all (or crap all)
3 days 21 hrs
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