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170 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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170 months ago

   wrote:

Don't move or you're dead (or I'll blow you up)

170 months ago

   wrote:

Do not move or else I will blow up your kidneys

170 months ago

   wrote:

if you don't want me to blow up your loins

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170 months ago

   wrote:

Harrap's & Collins dictionaries: plural "loins" = reins (the small of the back/lumbar area)

170 months ago

   wrote:

Of course, you could also say "if you don't want me to blow up your kidneys" :-)

170 months ago

   wrote:

The mention of loins or small of the back or kidneys just isn't very idiomatic.....

170 months ago

   wrote:

Agreed. What about "to blast your (lower) back/to blast your kidneys"

170 months ago

David Edwards Translation and Training   wrote:

unless you want me to take your kidneys out

My comment:

would offer a neat play on words with the use of 'take out' to mean destroy a target with a bomb or missile

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170 months ago

Ffion Marianne Moyle   wrote:

If I were you I wouldn't move unless of course you want your kidneys removed

170 months ago

Geoff Bing   wrote:

Don't move unless you want me to blow a hole in your kidneys

My comment:

or [...] to remove your kidneys

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170 months ago

   wrote:

English speakers don't talk about kidneys very much. It's a very French seme: j'ai mal au reins=my lower back hurts.

170 months ago

Geoff Bing   wrote:

With all due respect, I'm an English speaker and this would be perfectly acceptable if the gun is, as i imagine, pressed against the soft part on the left or right of the lower back... consider kidney blows in boxing...

170 months ago

Geoff Bing   wrote:

to blow you away or blow a hole in your

My comment:

literally: to remove your kidneys