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This tag is for question about determining English equivalents for words or phrases in other languages.

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Why is "spigot" possibly racist?

In the movie Groupers, there's an exchange like so (about 73'55" in). Now, will you please turn off the spigot? Ooh, that's racist. Spigot is not racist. As I googled spigot, it's a faucet/tap provi …
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An appropriate term for an overly by-the-rules person

In Swedish, we've got a term that loosely translates as paragraph jockey. It refers to a person, often a clerk or a referee, who is following all the rules, prescriptions and agreements ad absurdum. T …
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