English translation of "histoire (dans ce contexte)" - "I have to reimburse the bank something like $400K"

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171 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	histoire (dans ce contexte)
Context:	Je dois rembourser une histoire de quatre cent mille dollars à la banque,..Is he referring
Keywords:	...to a "string of loans that amount to" or just a single loan?

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171 months ago

TRADUCTIONS TECHNIQUES BSL wrote:

a mere pittance

My comment:

Appears like the writer is trying to pass it on as something that is not spending much time on. French often use an anthonym or the contrary of what they think to emphasize what they really mean

171 months ago

TRADUCTIONS TECHNIQUES BSL wrote:

I have to reimburse the bank something like $400K

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171 months ago

TRADUCTIONS TECHNIQUES BSL wrote:

My comment:

Une histoire is just about anything...It's slang....it depends on the context.
A thing...it's not a string of loans.
Ah Quel histoire=Oh, what a situation...in spoken French.
Ah, c'était une histoire à con. That was a crappy situation or thing.

There's not a good way to say it in English here.

I'd use the slang LIKE, here....

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