A little bit pregnant

[LordRoderick]

Hi everybody, this is my first post.

I just read a Dilbert strip where someone wants to get a client a "little bit pregnant", and Dilbert says that's an American saying.

Does anyone know what that means?

Cheers,

LordRoderick

 

[oliviaF]

Un poquito embarazada???, desde luego en español suena muy cómico si esque significa eso...
Espera a ver qué dicen los demás..

Saludos

 

[LordRoderick]

The joke of the comic strip is that the boss asks a clerk that is a foreigner to get one of his client "a little bit pregnant", and as he does not know that idiom, he wants to make a baby with the client's representative

I want to know what that clerk shoulded know to avoid such embarrasing situation.

 

[oliviaF]

Lo siento, si significa algo más que lo literal no tengo ni idea de qué...a ver si nos lo aclara alguien porque yo tengo mucha curiosidad jejeje

 

[Venezuelan_sweetie]

Pure guess, creo que sería algo como "distraer/retrasar un poco/un rato".

Lo digo en base al post Nº9 de este hilo. Espero te sea útil: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=140821

 

[borgonyon]

He's asking him to do something that cannot be done. He's pulling his leg. Like asking him to turn off the sun. Because there's no way to be [or get someone] a little bit pregnant!

[Hey, but there's that line in the move The Truman Show: Cue the sun!]

 

[Reina140]

I want to know what that clerk shoulded SHOULD HAVE knowN to avoid such embarrasSing situation.[/quote]

Just a couple corrections.

 

[oliviaF]

He's asking him to do something that cannot be done. He's pulling his leg. Like asking him to turn off the sun. Because there's no way to be [or get someone] a little bit pregnant!

[Hey, but there's that line in the move The Truman Show: Cue the sun!]

Gracias por la aclaración!

 

[LordRoderick]

Many thanks to both of you, for the explanation and the corrections.