Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Hebrew term or phrase:
כותב למגירה
English translation:
writing for the drawer
Added to glossary by
Ron Armon
Sep 21, 2007 16:15
16 yrs ago
Hebrew term
כותב למגירה
Hebrew to English
Art/Literary
Journalism
a documentary piece
A person in a documentary I'm translating into English states he writes (poetry, prose...) and uses this Hebrew term ("writing for the drawer"). Is there an accepted English equivalent?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +2 | writing for the drawer |
Smantha
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| 4 +1 | writing for my drawer |
Amir Gavriely
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Proposed translations
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writing for the drawer
The phrase "writing for the drawer" is pretty common in English.
Example sentence:
Some, like Herbert and Miron Bialoszewski, chose internal exile or "writing for the drawer."
While authors in crisis often "write for the drawer," Held took to making pictures so large that the only way to store canvases after showing them in the few available spaces big enough...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks Smantha.
You were first,
and right, as usual"
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31 mins
Amir Gavriely
Canada
Canada
Native in Hebrew
Specializes in field
Canada
Fast, accurate, Heb-Eng translations
Native in: Hebrew 
Works in: Hebrew to English, English to Hebrew
writing for my drawer
this seems to be used in English as well
see
http://www.beheremondays.com/Blog.php?eid=148
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=15...
and, to some extent,
http://www.thefrustratedwriter.com/stories.html
see
http://www.beheremondays.com/Blog.php?eid=148
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=15...
and, to some extent,
http://www.thefrustratedwriter.com/stories.html
Example sentence:
Which suggests Tsypkin wasn't just writing for the drawer. He was going one further in the paradoxes of imitated uniqueness than his hero
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