Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

kitchen sink bag

French translation:

un sac fourre-tout

Added to glossary by Cyril Bel-Ange
Jan 10, 2012 15:42
12 yrs ago
English term

kitchen sink bag

English to French Tech/Engineering Tourism & Travel luggage
kitchen sink

found in the description of a luggage

Discussion

yes i agree, we need more context
Yvonne Gallagher Jan 10, 2012:
you need to give more context! In terms of luggage, this normally means someone has a very heavy suitcase/too much luggage because they've "packed everything but the kitchen sink"(idiom)
if you can, try posting a longer excerpt from your text, it would be helpful
does this refer to a brand (cf. http://www.thekitchensinkbag.com/) Otherwise, it refers to a bag looking like the vegetable peelings etc. at the bottom of a kitchen sink (évier de cuisine), which means a bag which is a big mess, without any order or pockets (fourre-tout, où les objets se retrouvent pêle-mêle):
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1037&messag...

Proposed translations

+3
14 mins
Selected

un sac fourre-tout

If it refers not to the brand "kitchen sink bag" but to the expression itself, I would use this expression, otherwise I would use "sac de la marque The Kitchen Sink Bag"

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Note added at 14 mins (2012-01-10 15:56:59 GMT)
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i just added the translation and saw somebody else had chosen the same :D
Peer comment(s):

agree Kelly Harrison
13 mins
merci!
agree MSWeston : un sac fourre-tout de la marque "Kitchen Bag"
2 hrs
Merci !
agree Gabriella Bertelmann : agree
7 hrs
Merci !
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+1
10 mins

un sac à tout entasser

sounds to me like a reference to the expression "everything but the kitchen sink" – in other words, in this case, something (luggage) to throw in just about anything and everything
Peer comment(s):

agree Kelly Harrison
16 mins
Kelly merci!
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+4
12 mins

un fourre-tout (dans le sens le plus pur du terme)

voilà
Peer comment(s):

agree FX Fraipont (X)
1 min
agree Sarah Bessioud
21 mins
agree NancyLynn
29 mins
agree Sonia Koprivica
15 hrs
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