Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
the holders of the money strings
German translation:
die am Geldhebel Sitzenden
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flowersuse
Sep 29, 2006 11:37
17 yrs ago
English term
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the holders of the money strings
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English to German
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Science (general)
research funding
Time and again, the holders of the money strings of early 20th-century educational philanthropy -- men like John Franklin Jameson, then of the Carnegie Institution -- preferred to underwrite the paternalistic work of men like Stone rather than the serious scholarship of Du Bois.
Proposed translations
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| 4 +2 | die am Geldhebel Sitzenden |
Ivo Lang
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Oct 3, 2006 14:27: Steffen Walter changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
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die am Geldhebel Sitzenden
Bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass hier ein "malappropism" stattgefunden hat. Gemeint ist wohl das Bild "hold the purse strings", was so viel bedeutet wie "das Geld zusammenhalten" oder besser "am Geldhebel sitzen" (das Geld kontrollieren).
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Comment: "eine elegante Lösung! Super! Danke!!
Susanne"
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