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English term or phrase:
Nail holes
English answer:
it's a reference to the crucifixion
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Feb 3, 2022 19:38
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Nail holes
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I am translating Mash into Polish. Trapper and Hawkeye are playing golf. And now I have such fragment:
Trapper grabbed his driver, winced and looked at his hands. “Goddam nail holes,” he complained.
Does he mean something like corns/clavus?
I am translating Mash into Polish. Trapper and Hawkeye are playing golf. And now I have such fragment:
Trapper grabbed his driver, winced and looked at his hands. “Goddam nail holes,” he complained.
Does he mean something like corns/clavus?
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| 5 +6 | it's a reference to the crucifixion |
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it's a reference to the crucifixion
This is an extended joke.
Hawkeye and Trapper are playing golf, watched by some adoring women, and Trapper is being compared to Jesus for some reason. The bits in asterisks below are the relevant ones.
Approaching the seventh, a par five, they were both three over par, and as the day was getting warmer, Trapper took off the long, flowing top of his Papa-San suit and his hat. This left him with ***long hair, a beard, a bare torso, and long, flowing trousers***, and seemed to move him up another notch in the eyes of the girls.
Then Trapper cranked out an awesome two-wood with a slight tail-end hook which hit the hard fairway, bounced over a trap, and came to rest within two feet of the pin.
***“Jesus!”*** exclaimed Hawkeye. The caddies, hearing this, looked knowingly at each other, and it dawned on the Swampmen what their mounting excitement was all about. Happily, Hawkeye had several of the autographed pictures in his wallet and, with a grand gesture, he bestowed complimentary copies upon the girls who, their suspicions confirmed, were overcome. Hawkeye had to lead them aside to calm them down, explaining as best he could that the Master’s game was a little rusty and that ***He*** wanted to get in at least eighteen holes before making ***His comeback*** generally known.
“These bimboes,” he explained to Trapper, approaching the eighth tee, “are on ***a real Christian kick***, so don’t disappoint them.”
Trapper grabbed his driver, winced and looked at his hands.
***“Goddam nail holes,”*** he complained.
http://sportfictie.blogspot.com/2016/04/
Hawkeye and Trapper are playing golf, watched by some adoring women, and Trapper is being compared to Jesus for some reason. The bits in asterisks below are the relevant ones.
Approaching the seventh, a par five, they were both three over par, and as the day was getting warmer, Trapper took off the long, flowing top of his Papa-San suit and his hat. This left him with ***long hair, a beard, a bare torso, and long, flowing trousers***, and seemed to move him up another notch in the eyes of the girls.
Then Trapper cranked out an awesome two-wood with a slight tail-end hook which hit the hard fairway, bounced over a trap, and came to rest within two feet of the pin.
***“Jesus!”*** exclaimed Hawkeye. The caddies, hearing this, looked knowingly at each other, and it dawned on the Swampmen what their mounting excitement was all about. Happily, Hawkeye had several of the autographed pictures in his wallet and, with a grand gesture, he bestowed complimentary copies upon the girls who, their suspicions confirmed, were overcome. Hawkeye had to lead them aside to calm them down, explaining as best he could that the Master’s game was a little rusty and that ***He*** wanted to get in at least eighteen holes before making ***His comeback*** generally known.
“These bimboes,” he explained to Trapper, approaching the eighth tee, “are on ***a real Christian kick***, so don’t disappoint them.”
Trapper grabbed his driver, winced and looked at his hands.
***“Goddam nail holes,”*** he complained.
http://sportfictie.blogspot.com/2016/04/
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