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170 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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170 months ago

   wrote:

what a mess you've made everywhere!

170 months ago

   wrote:

What about this fucked-up mess you've created everywhere?

My comment:

This characterizes a particular situation.

Foutre le bordel is to create a mess or havoc everywhere,
not only physically (like in a messy house) but also among people...

I added the four letter word to emphasize foutre without it the translation is too clean. Maintaining tone and idiomaticity is important here...

170 months ago

Geoff Bing   wrote:

What about this mess you made?

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

170 months ago

Geoff Bing   wrote:

What about the big mess you left behind you? (rather) - i'd replace everywhere with big for fluency's sake

170 months ago

Geoff Bing   wrote:

the disruption/mayhem you caused everywhere

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170 months ago

English -French - English medical, scientific ++   wrote:

this shit you put all over the place

My comment:

slang

170 months ago

Ffion Marianne Moyle   wrote:

you couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery

My comment:

the literal meaning is almost unwritable but this is what the dialogue/the speaker is trying to say

170 months ago

Ffion Marianne Moyle   wrote:

mess, turmoil, chaos that you made, created, left evrywhere

My comment:

take your pick, and adjust the verb to the noun

170 months ago

Claude Le Frapper   wrote:

mess, turmoil, chaos that you made, created, left evrywhere

My comment:

take your pick, and adjust the verb to the noun