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"Sell onions to..." is not an English idiom or proverb, so it would seem it is a literal translation of a Japanese saying. …

We simply call it a 'plug'. If we need to be more specific, a 'three-pin plug'. This is because standard UK electrical plugs have 3 pins, the third being an 'earth'. We also have two-pin plugs in bath …

It sounds like you know your audience, and you have already decided they would probably not know the technical names. For that reason, I would agree with you that option 1 is the best - italicise thei …

In British English, we often say a foolish mistake - the kind made due to inexperience - is "a schoolboy error". In US English, the equivalent is "a rookie mistake". But we say these about mistakes ma …

The closest English idiom is probably the heart wants what it wants. It's a pretty universal sentiment that human beings are driven by both logic/reasoning and emotion, and that sometimes these two th …

Some English expressions come to mind, but they may not exactly match your Japanese saying like for like. They fight like cat and dog (means they constantly fight) They are like chalk and cheese (mea …

Do you become an "expert" in translation when you are fluent in two languages? Or three? Or two hundred? It strikes me as a field where the word "expert" just doesn't fit. … rather than "a translation expert". …

"Furever" is not a real word, but native English speakers would recognise it as a pun - a portmanteau of the words fur (which is synonymous with animals) and forever. Don't assume that, just because y …

Leaving aside current views on gender identity, historically, "man" has been used as an umbrella term for both genders - and it still is, unless someone objects to it. "Mankind" refers to all human be …

In the UK they are properly called care and content labels, as they contain not only instructions on washing, but also on handling, drying, and details of the material contained in the product. But yo …

You're so right that translation is far more than simply substituting words. To translate well from one language to another you need to have a reasonable idiomatic understanding of both. …

English is fairly flexible and open to the creation of 'new' words and compound words from familiar prefixes and suffixes, "-able" being one such example. A Google search finds quite a lot of results …

"Bauernvogt" seems to be rendered as "farmer bailiff" as well as "peasant Bailiff". As this is a very specific term from a period of pre-Prussian history, it isn't surprising we don't have a correspon …