Was heißt »Schild­bür­ger­streich« auf Englisch?

Das Substantiv »Schild­bür­ger­streich« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • folly
  • foolish act

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Was für ein Schildbürgerstreich!

What a cock-up!

Synonyme

Clow­ne­rie:
clownery
Ese­lei:
asininity
Flachs:
flax
Non­sens:
nonsense
Pos­se:
antic
buffoonery
burlesque
drollery
farce
Schnack:
chitchat
Schnur­re:
funny tale
Scho­te:
silique
Spaß:
amusement
entertainment
fun
humour
Ulk:
gag
joke

Sinnverwandte Wörter

Don­qui­chot­te­rie:
knight errantry
quixotic project
quixotism
quixotry
Re­al­sa­ti­re:
real-life satire

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Not every error is to be called folly.

  • Anger is the beginning of folly.

  • Our wisdom comes from our experience. Our experience comes from our foolish actions.

  • I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind. For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

  • Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

  • He blushed at his folly.

  • No medicine can cure folly.

  • It is an act of folly.

  • It's folly to eat so much.

  • What a piece of folly!

  • You should be ashamed of your folly.

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Schildbürgerstreich. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: Schildbürgerstreich. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 1063633, 11046236, 7761080, 2278671, 1911185, 411073, 298675, 282409, 42506, 41540, 36049 & 16833. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR