Glossary entry

Persian (Farsi) term or phrase:

هر چی از دهنش در اومد بهم گفت

English translation:

he let loose with everything he had

Added to glossary by SeiTT
Dec 7, 2011 12:53
12 yrs ago
Persian (Farsi) term

بهم گفت

Persian (Farsi) to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature Colloquial Dialogue
Greetings,

I may have this completely wrong, but does بهم گفت have an idiomatic meaning here?
جلوی بقیه هرچی از دهنش در آمد بهم گفت و حسابی سبکم کرد.

Best wishes, and many thanks,

Simon

Discussion

SeiTT (asker) Dec 7, 2011:
Literal translation Thank you all very much.

The literal translation of هر چی از دهنش در اومد بهم گفت is simply "Everything that came out of his mouth said to me", isn't it? So, perhaps, the meaning can be taken as, "Everything that came out of his mouth cast an aspersion on me / was aimed at me."

Proposed translations

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he let loose with everything he had

Your literal translation is correct...this is a more idiomatic way of saying the whole phrase.

We could also say:
He really laid into me.

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Also:
He let me have it up one side and down the other.
Peer comment(s):

agree Farzad Akmali
2 days 1 hr
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agree Fereidoon Keyvani
8 days
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2 mins

he/she told me/said to me

somehow here it means he/she curses me.
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5 mins

told me; cursed me, swore me a lot

We can actually consider هر چی از دهنش در اومد بهم گفت as an idiomatix expression, which means "he cursed/swore me a lot.

a more formal option: to utter invectice
Peer comment(s):

agree Ahmad Hosseinzadeh
59 mins
thank you!
agree Komeil Zamani Babgohari
5 hrs
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+3
6 mins

curse/ swear at

Peer comment(s):

agree M-shahsavand
6 mins
thanks!
agree Komeil Zamani Babgohari
5 hrs
agree Sabah Mofidi
1 day 22 hrs
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told me

told me
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called me names, insulted me

"هر چی از دهنش در اومد بهم گفت" means "he insulted me" or "he called me names"
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