perjantai 30. marraskuuta 2012

Friday Phrase 6

Joulukuu is the month of tax returns. Which is a nice thing for those who actually get some money back from the hallitus. But for some of us who need to be paying back, the old adage "tyhjästä on paha nyhjästä" may become all too real. Then you really need to get creative about joulu. Luckily the best kink you can give and receive is yhdessäolo.


The English equivalent to this saying would be "to pull something out of thin air" - or try to... Or what Shakespeare's King Lear said: "Nothing will come of nothing". 
Yet to be translated in Estonian. Please leave a comment below if you know.

sanasto = sõnastik = vocabulary
antaa ja saada = anda ja saada = to give and receive
hallitus = valitsus = government
jotkut meistä = mõned meist = some of us
joulukuu = detsember = December
lahja = kink, kingitus = gift, present
luova = loov, loomisvõimeline = creative
maksaa takaisin = tagasi maksta= to pay back
nyhjä(i)stä =  = to pull out (with one small jerk)
onneksi = õnneks = luckily
raha = raha = money
sanonta = ütlus, vanasõna = adage
todella = tegelikult = actually
tyhjä = tühi = empty
tyhjästä on paha nyhjästä = to pull something out of thin air = nihil ex nihilo
vastine = sünonuüm = equivalent
vero = maks, tulumaks = tax
veronpalautus = tulumaksu tagastamine = tax return
yhdessäolo = koosolemine = togetherness, being together

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