ρεζίλι των σκυλιών

11:23 Oct 18, 2013

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Greek term or phrase: ρεζίλι των σκυλιών

Δεν μου επέτρεψαν να επιστρέψω στο δωμάτιο. Με κλείδωσαν στο κρατητήριο, κοινός κρατούμενος, αυτό ήμουν. Ευτυχώς, τουλάχιστον, δεν μου πέρασαν χειροπέδες. Δεν έγινα ρεζίλι των σκυλιών σε ένα τουριστικό θέρετρο γεμάτο σκυλιά.

The whole of the last sentence. Preferably an expression so that "ρεζίλι των σκυλιών" and "τουριστικό θέρετρο γεμάτο σκυλιά" contain the same word.

Thanks

Kyriacos Georghiou KudoZ activity Questions: 33 (1 open) (1 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 709 Cyprus
Local time: 09:02

Summary of answers provided

4 +1

a spectacle

Nick Lingris

3 +1

At least, they didn't make me a laughingstock in a tourist resort loaded with livestock.

Constantine Kourakis

fool

mfoumi

was rediculed as if a dog/ was made to feel like a dog

transphy

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37 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

At least, they didn't make me a laughingstock in a tourist resort loaded with livestock.

Explanation:
Assuming that "σκυλιά" means ugly, perhaps low-life and sexually provocative women (definition documented in Λεξικό Κοινής Νεοελληνικής) or low-life, uneducated people or rednecks in a broader sense, you can use "livestock" which on one hand, according to the Urban dictionary, denotes such women and on the other hand, can also provoke to the reader the image of people behaving like animals. At the same time, you have two words ending in -stock and an alliteration of "l" (laughingstock - livestock).

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/make oneself or somethin...

http://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/le...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=livestock

Constantine Kourakis
Netherlands
Local time: 08:02
Native speaker of: Greek

59 mins confidence:

fool

Explanation:
I wasn't made to look like a fool in a resort full of fools.

Another option would be:

I didn't go to the dogs in a resort full of dogs.

go to the dogs = become ruined
dog = a person regarded as unattractive or uninteresting

mfoumi
Greece
Local time: 09:02
Native speaker of:

Greek

21 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

a spectacle

Explanation:
Αν σου το επιτρέπει το κείμενο:

They did not make a spectacle of me in this tourist resort (that was) hardly short of spectacles.

Nick Lingris
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:02
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Greek
PRO pts in category: 52

Notes to answerer

Asker: Bearing in a mind that the narrator is a bit of a psycho, I've got this at the moment. What do you think? I did not become a laughing stock, a scum in a tourist resort full of scums

Asker: or perhaps "full of scum" instead of scums

7 days confidence:

was rediculed as if a dog/ was made to feel like a dog

Explanation:
..... (any one of the above)...in a (tourist) resort full of dogs.

transphy
Local time: 07:02
Native speaker of:

English,

Greek
PRO pts in category: 4

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you Phyto. I decided to express it like this: I did not become a laughing stock, another scum in a tourist resort full of scum. What do you think?

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