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I loved this, Heddwen. It reminds of my years working in Holland. Visitors from the US parent company would fly in and start talking about "The whole nine yards" or "behind the eight ball." We decided to get even by using literal translations of Dutch idioms in meetings with our American overlords. Fun times.

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I translate from Dutch and English into Italian, therefore your posts are extremely useful and interesting to me, Heddwen, hartelijk dank!

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Great to hear! Thanks!

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