Love Handles Translated?

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Love Handles Translated?

Postby Slava » Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:24 pm

I just read an article about how a French magazine edited out some of Sarkozy's "poignees d'amour." This made me wonder how this concept is rendered in other languages. I thought it might make for interesting reading. As long as someone out there has something to add, that is.

These are the only two I know at the moment, and the French is only because I read the BBC article.

Now, we don't want translations here; we want to know how other cultures refer to those bits of flab. As an added bonus, do love handles refer to a specific gender, or can both have them?

I look forward to learning from you.

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Postby Perry » Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:33 am

In Israel the term is "spare tire".
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Postby Bailey » Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:52 am

I like dunlaps, they dun lapped over your belt.

mark has-to-get-rid-of-the-spare Bailey

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Postby Stargzer » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:47 am

Also known as Dunlops Disease, where your belly done lops over your belt.

Which reminds me of the sign I saw in a gift shop in Williamsburg:
It's not a beer belly; it's a fuel tank for a sex machine.
... although I'm sure there are those who would beg to differ ...
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Postby skinem » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:18 am

Among some pilots, I've heard 'em referred to as "air brakes".

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Postby Bailey » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:41 pm

Isn't that what the Ladies put on when they see that dunlap?

mark My-dunlap-is-nearly-gone Bailey

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Postby bnjtokyo » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:46 am

Dear Slava,

I've asked around and there does not seem to be an equivalent expression in Japanese. The only tentative suggestion was "seishibo" from "sei," back and "shibo," fat.

Cheers,

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Postby Stargzer » Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:11 pm

Agoraphile says a beer gut in Canada is called a "Molson goiter."

I have such an investment built up in mine that I hate to see it disappear all at once ...
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