Ein Schnippchen schlagen - What is the English translation? English translators help English translators with the translation of Ein Schnippchen schlagen

Conges terminology question

183 months ago

applicant47 (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	Ein Schnippchen schlagen
Context:	Dem Klima ein Schnippchen schlagen

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182 months ago

wrote:

Outsmarting the climate

My comment:

ich denke das ist so ziemlich gebräuchlich ;-)

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183 months ago

JIGGSLAW- Coordinator of the Linguist-Lawyers Network wrote:

To play a trick on the climate

My comment:

This is an idiom.

Additionally, “trick” is a technical term often employed by the cream of climate scientists. It simply means employing a clever method to accomplish some technical goal (in this case, “to hide the decline”).

My references:

http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/jdm+ein+Schnippchen+schlagen.html

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183 months ago

JIGGSLAW- Coordinator of the Linguist-Lawyers Network wrote:

to outsmart the climate

My comment:

"cheat" finde ich auch OK

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183 months ago

i. grolhier-deckarm wrote:

to cheat the climate ..... (oder .... "to cheat the weather")