English translation of "y'a que ça de vrai" - "That's all you can do."

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171 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	y'a que ça de vrai
Context:	Retrouve ce salaud et fais-lui la peau, mon gars. Y'a que ça de vrai...Gang member telling
Keywords:	...the book's protagonist what he should do when he finds his young daughter's rapist/murderer...Maybe "That's (really) what you should do?"

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171 months ago

wrote:

That's all that matters...

171 months ago

Isabel Ruivo wrote:

It's all that is

171 months ago

Noelle Ward wrote:

That's all you can do.

My comment:

You don't have any other options.

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171 months ago

Noelle Ward wrote:

do him in (kill) anyday

171 months ago

Noelle Ward wrote:

just do it!

171 months ago

Geoff Bing wrote:

THat's

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

171 months ago

Geoff Bing wrote:

oops - that's real justice /or/ that's the only thing for it -> i wouldn't even try to remain faithful to the syntax and morphology. getting the idea and one word across is already a good translation...

171 months ago

Geoff Bing wrote:

that's all he deserves

171 months ago

Geoff Bing wrote:

That's the only truth there is here.

My comment:

It's spoken French.

Il n'y a que ça de [whatever one wants].

Get that asshole, and give him a good beating, young man.

Spoken French of this kind is actually not easy To Translate...

171 months ago

Geoff Bing wrote:

That is the (only) right thing to do

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