выесть нас из дома?
eat us out of house
User translations (1)
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эта фраза описывает такую ситуацию, когда кто-то живет у вас в доме, никогда не покупает продуктов, при этом постоянно и много ест, до того степени, что вызывает финансовые проблемы
Translator's comment
Your brother better not lose his new job, because he's not moving back in here. Last time, he almost ate us out of house and home!
translation added by ⁌ ULY ⁍Gold en-ru3
Discussion (12)
Uly, you can omit "такую" in the beginning. and "до такой степени", but it's a typo, I guess
No, they're mistakes :). Thank you! When I was trying to say was that they eat and eat TO THE POINT of causing financial problems.
How would you say that?
well, as I've said. "описывает ситуацию, когда... ". usually when you say "описывает такую ситуацию" you follow up with "в которой...". but I guess all possible combinations here are correct, it's just that "такую" is a bit redundant here. it's not that you can't use it, you just don't need to.
"до того степени" is wrong. "степень" is feminine, so "того" doesn't fit here at all. actually "до такой степени" is устойчивое выражение (sorry, but I can't recall how to call it in English)
on the whole, you wrote everything right. you made yourself perfectly understood. these two (one and a half, even) mistakes don't really affect the meaning of what you've written
Thanks again. That's extremely helpful to me.
So when a situation escalates TO THE POINT of causing something, how do you express that. For example, here someone eats and eats to the point of causing their hosts financial difficulties.
several options are available here: "вплоть до чего-то", "до того момента когда", "пока не" and maybe some others. if I translate your post, I'd say "они едят и едят, пока у хозяев не возникают финансовые трудности"
Last time, he almost ate us out of house and home! - В прошлый раз он нам своим аппетитом чуть по миру не пустил!
Perfect! Thank you 👍🏼
Игорь, только "он НАС", а вообще, аплодирую!
разумеется он, Tatiana. и вот это как раз бала опечатка =)