Donald Trump, shemen zich in dein veiten haldz

[pnwmom]

My grandmother, were she alive, would have had a choice phrase for such a vulgarian: Shemen zich in dein veiten haldz. Literally, this translates as “you should be ashamed in your far neck,” but that doesn’t quite convey the deep contempt the speaker has for the schmuck who committed such a shandeh un a charpeh (shame and disgrace). Alternatively, my bubbe might have opted to give Trump some classic and colorful Yiddish advice: “Gai kaken oifen yam” — go defecate in the ocean.

Covering the insult-o-rama that is the Trump campaign is a soul-draining undertaking, calling to mind another Yiddishism: “Darf min gehn in kolledg?” (For this I went to college?)

But since Trump has started us on this tour of Yiddishkeit, it’s worth noting that Yiddish insults are custom-tailored for the overbearing and boorish gantseh macher that Trump has made of himself. He’s a shmegegi and a mamzer, a fabrecher and a nudnik with a lot of chutzpah (and a tuches un a halb). Sorry, you’ll have to look those up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/oy-vey-trump-is-such-a-putz/2015/12/22/4576edb0-a8de-11e5-bff5-905b92f5f94b_story.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I like Yiddish curses.

To Trump: May you grow like an onion, with your head in the ground.

[pnwmom]

2. I love that one!

[marybourg]

3. 'Darf mi[r] gehn in kolledg?”

I think a closer translation for this is : "Do you have to go to college (to say or know or do this)"?

[pnwmom]

5. Except that the more literal translation loses the nuance.

Which is why translation is such a skill and google is so bad at it.

[pansypoo53219]

4. tRUMP is the idiotocracy candidate. next up-OW, MY BALLS.

[kwassa]

6. Don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining.

That one was in there, too.

[Hekate]

7. Oy, thank you. My late father in law had some cuss-phrases so colorful I really can't repeat them

[pnwmom]

8. Maybe we'll be hearing them from the Trumpet then. n/t