Como digo em inglês: pára com isso!

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O podcast de hoje fala sobre algumas expressões super comuns e super informais com a palavra knock. Veja como dizer “Isso é imitação”, “Pára com isso” e “Vai fundo!”.

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Transcrição

Hi,
this is Ana Luiza with a new episode of inglesonline podcast. To see
the transcript and download the audio for this and other episodes, go
to ingleonline.com.br and click on “Podcasts”.

So,
the other day I was talking to a friend and she was telling me she
bought a purse made by a famous brand. So she bought this purse off a
website. I think the brand was Gucci or Prada… But, actually… the
purse she bought was not an original item. It was a replica. In other
words, it was a knockoff.

So
a knockoff is a replica of the original item. In this case, the purse
my friend bought is a knockoff of the original brand-name purse. But
the quality of the knockoff is usually not as good as the original,
and the knockoff items are cheaper, of course. It’s very common for
people to say, “This is just a cheap knockoff…” which is kinda
like our expression, “Isso é uma imitaçãozinha barata.”

So
knockoff is the first expression with the word knock that I wanted to
present today. Knockoff and the other two expressions I’m going to
talk about are very informal, OK? Very informal. And you probably
shouldn’t use them in formal documents.

Another
expression that kinda sounds like knockoff is “Knock it off!” If
someone is being annoying, if someone is singing too loud when you’re
trying to study, you can just say, knock it off! That means, stop
that! Stop what you’re doing, it’s bothering me, knock it off!

Knock
it off is not just for… when someone is annoying you. Let’s say
you’re at a restaurant with two friends, and all of a sudden they
start arguing about something, and their voices get louder and
louder… And then the waitress arrives with your food, and you just
want to have a peaceful meal, and your friends are still arguing, now
they’re on the verge of fighting. And you say, Hey, knock it off, you
guys! Let’s eat now and you can argue later. Knock it off, stop
fighting.

Or,
let’s say there’s a group of people somewhere and one of them keeps
complaining about everything… This place is awful, the food sucks,
the weather is horrible… So someone might say, hey, knock it
off… Relax, and try to enjoy the place anyway.

And
here’s another expression with knock: knock yourself out. When you
say knock yourself out to someone, you’re usually saying, Hey, go
ahead, go right ahead, just do it, feel free to do it.

Example:
someone at the office gave you a box of candies. However, you’re on a
diet so you don’t wanna have candy. That box of candies is sitting on
your desk, and then someone approaches you and asks, Can I have some
candy? And you say, Hey, knock yourself out. You can have the whole
box if you want, I don’t wanna eat them, ’cause I’m on a diet. Take
them with you if you want… knock yourself out.

Another
example: you and your friend are planning a trip and you have the
contact information of the hotel where you guys are planning to stay,
but you haven’t had time yet to make reservations. And then your
friend comes over to your house and he sees the hotel booklet lying
around in your room, and he says “Have you made the
reservations? I wanna make sure that this hotel is where we’ll stay,
cause it’s a really good hotel, and the food it’s supposed to be
excellent.”

And,
well, you’re not exactly concerned with where you’re going to stay,
and you haven’t had much free time lately. So you tell your friend,
Here’s the hotel information, knock yourself out. What you’re saying
to your friend is, go right ahead and do it, I don’t care. You wanna
do it, so feel free to book the hotel. Knock yourself out.

Now,
imagine that someone gave you that new Apple computer, the iPad. The
iPad is modern, it looks good, it’s awesome… but you are just not a
computer person. You don’t care about computers. In fact, you don’t
even know what an iPad is, I mean, to you Apple is just a fruit.
That’s how much you don’t care about it.

So
some guy steps into your office and, when he sees the iPad, he goes
crazy. Wow, you got an iPad, that’s awesome, I wanna buy an iPad, I’m
saving money to buy one. You look at him and you think to yourself,
Hey, this guy will make good use of the iPad. So you just tell him,
Hey, Knock yourself out, the iPad is yours, you know? Enjoy.

Ok,
that’s it for today. Well, you’re at inglesonline so knock yourself
out… There are other podcasts available and lots of English tips
too. See you next time.

Key expressions

• a knockoff
• knock it off!
• knock yourself out

Glossário

a
brand name purse = uma bolsa de marca

she
bought something off a website = ela comprou algo em um website

brand
= marca

is
kinda like = é meio parecido com

it’s
bothering me = está me incomodando

all
of a sudden = de repente

their
voices get louder = suas vozes ficam mais altas

the
food sucks = a comida é muito ruim

go
right ahead = vá em frente

feel
free to = fique à vontade para

he
sees the hotel booklet lying around in your room = ele vê o livrinho
(com informação sobre o hotel) ali no seu quarto – por exemplo,
em cima da cama ou na estante.

some
guy steps into your office = algum cara entra no seu escritório

he
will make good use of the iPan = ele vai fazer bom uso, vai
aproveitar o iPad