English translation of "petit bourgeois de merde" - "stuck-up little piece of crap/shit"

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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:	petit bourgeois de merde
Context:	Je vous dirai rien, allez vous faire foutre! Vous n'êtes qu'un petit bourgeois de merde...
Keywords:	...qui essaye de me faire peur, mais ça ne marchera pas!...For American readers.

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170 months ago

wrote:

shitty pretentious little man

171 months ago

wrote:

middle class asshole

My comment:

petit bourgeois in French has a plethora of semantic heaviness that is hard to render in English.

Petit bourgeois is roughly middle class
Grand bourgeois is roughly upper class.

The truth here is that without knowing the speaker, it is not easy to translate.....

171 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

small time operator

My comment:

you should change operator to anything that will fit the character, depending on what he is or what he does.

171 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

small time operator

My comment:

you should change operator to anything that will fit the character, depending on what he is or what he does.

171 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

stuck up little shit

My comment:

The other suggestions are good too, but this is how I'd render the whole sentence:
I've got nothing to say to you, f*** off! You're nothing but a stuck-up little shit!

171 months ago

i. grolhier-deckarm wrote:

a shitty little Bourgois

171 months ago

Geoff Bing wrote:

stuck-up little piece of crap/shit

My comment:

yikes

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