"Bad cess to you" nghĩa là gì?


"Bad cess to (one)" có cess trong tiếng Ireland là vận may -> cụm từ này nghĩa là quỷ tha ma bắt mày đi.

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If you feel like ordering at least a hundred, Otto Frei will sell them to you (at the time of this writing) for the low, low price of exactly 94 cents a pop (“assembled (lắp ráp) by hand in a small village in Switzerland” no less, so bad cess to you, you non-small-Swiss-village-non-hand-assembling spring bar makers, may you and your shoddy (chất lượng kém) wares be hurled into an outer darkness, where there is a wailing and a gnashing of teeth).

Well, congratulations, Ernault, just because you earn an extra penny or three each sixmonth, you’ve gone and let in all manner of demons and spirits of the air. Next, it’ll be fresh reeds in the thatch (mái che) every St. Cumberthsday and a gaudy door that closes, you may depend on it, and bad cess to him, I say.

I told this to the plumber (thợ ống nước), a Cavan man, who came to fix the central heating. He was lying underneath the boiler with a little torch on his forehead and he was saying, “Bad cess to this box.”

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