15 Oct
2018
15 Oct
'18
2:20 p.m.
Am 15.10.2018 um 19:58 schrieb Felix Malmenbeck:
This use of the English words screw and drill are idiomatic.
Indeed. It's rather telling that the expression does not survive translation into Swedish, which is basically just English with a few extra vowels. As another example, in German the slang term for "mate with" is not "screw", it's "nail".
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