Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Arabic term or phrase:
أرتني النجوم في الظهر
English translation:
It drove me nuts | It made me at sixes and sevens
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Ghada Samir
Feb 27, 2009 15:05
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Arabic term
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English
أرتني النجوم في الظهر
Arabic to English
Social Sciences
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
كانت لي سيارة كبيرة، أرتني النجوم في الظهر.
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Mar 1, 2009 20:41: Ghada Samir Created KOG entry
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It drove me nuts | It made me at sixes and sevens
It drove me nuts = well known expression
It made me at sixes and sevens = "at sixes & sevens" meansto be confused or badly organized, ex.:We were at sixes and sevens for about a week after we moved in.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/at sixes and sevens
It made me at sixes and sevens = "at sixes & sevens" meansto be confused or badly organized, ex.:We were at sixes and sevens for about a week after we moved in.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/at sixes and sevens
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Sumaia Sawalha
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
Native in Arabic
United Arab Emirates
translator,(eng-ara & vv) (it-ara & vv)
Native in: Arabic 
Works in: Arabic, English to Arabic, Arabic to English, and 4 more.
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it drove me crazy
it drove me crazy.
this expression means: my car was annoying/bothering me?
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:oA7EgHWG2-0J:www.democr...
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=206220
this expression means: my car was annoying/bothering me?
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:oA7EgHWG2-0J:www.democr...
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=206220
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Taleb Ebrahim - Arabic - English - Turkish Professional Conference Interpreter-Translator
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Tarik Boussetta
Native in Arabic
You come, You see, and YOU CONQUER!
Native in: Arabic
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made me angry / mad enough to chew nails!
made me angry / mad enough to chew nails!
see this link there are many many idioms similar to this one
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/mad
see this link there are many many idioms similar to this one
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/mad
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Mohamed Ghazal
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
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United Arab Emirates
It's not just a job...
Native in: Arabic (Variant: Egyptian)
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Gave me hell
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This person talking ab out his bad car so the meaning of سيارتي ارتني النجوم في الظهر ( my car it'
This person talking ab out his bad car so the meaning of سيارتي ارتني النجوم في الظهر ( my car it's realy bad car no one can see the stars in the day but my car bcuz of to many problems in it i start seen the stars in the day bcuz of the bad day that my car gave me) so this is all what that person saying about his car.
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