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There is no cold sweat when you go cold turkey

French translation: sevrage ne rime pas forcément avec sueurs froides

16:15 Apr 3, 2017
English to French translations [PRO]
Psychology / How to stop complaining
English term or phrase: There is no cold sweat when you go cold turkey
Tip: To Break the Habit, Simply Stop We mentioned that complaining can become a habit. And like all habits, it is totally under your control. So you *could* just stop complaining if you chose to. There is no cold sweat when you go cold turkey. (Though you'll feel an itch to start whining.)
Marion Delarue
France
Local time: 06:30
French translation:sevrage ne rime pas forcément avec sueurs froides
Explanation:
Or something along these lines
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ormiston
Local time: 06:30
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1pas de crise de manque si le sevrage est radical
Fanny Villuendas
3 +2il n'y a pas de sueurs froides lors d'un sevrage brutal
Sylvie Chartier
3 +2sevrage ne rime pas forcément avec sueurs froides
ormiston
5 -1Vous n'aurez pas mal si vous vous arrêtez d'un coup
MarieCoach
4vous n'en prendrez pas un coup si vous vous sevrez d'un coup
Daryo


  

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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
there is no cold sweat when you go cold turkey
Vous n'aurez pas mal si vous vous arrêtez d'un coup


Explanation:
to go cold turkey : arrêter d'un coup, se sevrer de ... L'expression consacrée est "rapide et indolore".

MarieCoach
Belgium
Local time: 06:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Daryo: "going cold turkey" = "rapide et indolore" try telling that to any ex-addict - or take a look at https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/why-do-we-quit... - sounds like great fun ... OTOH agree that using conditional is clearer.
1 hr
neutral  Andrew Bramhall: Think you're being a bit harsh there, Daryo,...also, it's currrent addicts you shouldn't try telling it too, ex-addicts would agree with the statement, me thinks...
3 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
there is no cold sweat when you go cold turkey
pas de crise de manque si le sevrage est radical


Explanation:
l'expression est imagée et peut donner lieu à moultes propositions intéressantes... avec celle-ci je choisis de garder la dimension physique du sevrage qui est très explicite...

Fanny Villuendas
France
Local time: 06:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: French

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Geraldine Njonkou
1 hr
  -> merci :-)
neutral  Daryo: like this on its own it's total nonsense - you have to adjust the tenses - if you turn it into conditional it does makes sense, and only combined with previous sentences!
7 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
there is no cold sweat when you go cold turkey
il n'y a pas de sueurs froides lors d'un sevrage brutal


Explanation:
IMHO


    Reference: http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-fra.html?la...
    Reference: http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-fra.html?la...
Sylvie Chartier
Canada
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andrew Bramhall: Literally, yes;
1 hr
  -> Thank you Oliver!
agree  Annie Rigler
14 hrs
  -> Merci Annie!
neutral  Daryo: you make it sound like a general statement, always true - which would be a total nonsense. in this ST it's ONLY about a very specific case - in which context it does make sense.
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
there is no cold sweat when you go cold turkey
sevrage ne rime pas forcément avec sueurs froides


Explanation:
Or something along these lines

ormiston
Local time: 06:30
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Françoise Vogel: je ne sais pas si c'est efficace à 100% mais la formule est réussie.
1 hr
agree  Hélène OShea: oui c'est très bien
3 hrs
neutral  Daryo: nicely said, but that's not really what was said in the ST // that won't really fit here - how would that agree with the rhythm of the whole paragraph?
7 hrs
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
there is no cold sweat when you go cold turkey
vous n'en prendrez pas un coup si vous vous sevrez d'un coup


Explanation:

without the word play:

vous ne souffrirez pas de sueures froides si vous vous sevrez d'un coup

The source text sounds like some self-help manual meant for the general public; given the context of this specific ST

"There is no cold sweat when you go cold turkey"

DOESN'T literally mean a general statement that "going cold turkey" is something easy [which would be patent nonsense!], it's in fact an abbreviated form for:

(when you go cold turkey with your addiction to complaining) there [would be] no cold sweat [as it would happen] when you go cold turkey [with more serious addictions]

HERE the point of this sentence is a kind of mild irony - saying that if you are addicted to moaning/complaining it's not so difficult to simply stop - by comparison to other addictions where there would be a serious risk of suffering all sort of unpleasant or horrible side effects.

For some addictions "going cold turkey" is even potentially lethal!

see :
Can an alcoholic quit drinking cold turkey?
Alcohol withdrawal is potentially fatal, so if you find yourself starting to experience significant alcohol withdrawal symptoms when you stop drinking then it is important to gradually detoxify from alcohol rather than quitting all at once "cold turkey". You can gradually detoxify from alcohol by tapering off.
http://hams.cc/taper/

not to speak of illegal drugs:

But why turkey, and why cold? The most popular theory was repeated by the San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen in 1978: "It derives from the hideous combination of goosepimples [sic] and what William Burroughs calls 'the cold burn' that addicts suffer as they kick the habit." In Cop Speak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime, Tom Philbin recites a second theory, that "the term may derive from the cold, clammy feel of the skin during withdrawal, like a turkey that has been refrigerated."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/why-do-we-quit...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoingColdTurkey




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Note added at 1 day3 hrs (2017-04-04 19:55:49 GMT)
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Why Is Abruptly Quitting Something Called "Going Cold Turkey"?

One final suggested origin is that the phrase comes from the similarities between a drug addict in the throes of withdrawal and a turkey’s carcass. Both can be clammy, pale and covered in goosebumps, which might have led someone to point out that a user who suddenly quit looked like a cold turkey.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12798/why-abruptly-quitting-s...

Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:30
Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 6

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Françoise Vogel: l'effet global est de l'ordre du baragouin. // c'est peut-être une sensation personnelle mais ça ne me semble pas très explicite.
1 hr
  -> I quite like your style - but I still disagree with your comment! Are you basically saying that context counts for nothing? That out-of-context distortions of meaning are just a figment of the linguist's imagination?
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