Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

It\'s A Glam Slam!

Arabic translation:

إنها صفقة رابحة بجميع المقاييس! / لا تفوّتي الفرصة!

Added to glossary by Dalia Nour
Jul 28, 2021 18:40
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English term

It's A Glam Slam!

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Proposed translations

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إنها صفقة رابحة بجميع المقاييس! / لا تفوّتي الفرصة!

I think it is a combination of "FitnGlam" and "Grand Slam", but it is an unfortunate and inappropriate pun, maybe coincidentally and unintentionally.
Were I you, I would report this to the client, explain the cultural appropriateness to them, and adopt a functional and transcreative approach in translating this phrase.

What they meant:
Grand Slam noun (WINNING EVERYTHING)
"An occasion when someone wins all of a set of important sports competitions."
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/grand-sl...

What it really means:
Glam Slam:
Song:"Glam Slam is a song by American musician Prince, and the second single from his 1988 album, Lovesexy.[1] The song has sexual overtones with a spiritual undertone and fits the Lovesexy theme..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-qK5MNSwoE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glam_Slam

Glam Slam - a sexual pun? I noticed this at UrbanDictionary.com: clam slam: A sexual act lesbians perform...
I'm fairly certain it borrows from "slam dance" and combines it with "glam/glamorous".
Isn't it short for "Glamorous Slamming"? or something?


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Note added at 2 days 10 hrs (2021-07-31 05:04:26 GMT)
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agree Wissam Alaqad
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حفل ماجن

glam=glamourous
slam= to have a sexual intercourse

طبعًا هناك أغنية شهيرة لبرينس glam slam
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!يا للروعة الكبرى

The suggestion tries to render the meaning while serving the advertizing effect it is written for.
Glam slam rhymes with the tennis tournaments Grand Slam دوريات التنس الأربع الكبرى
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