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to bamboozle/string along one's students, with comic bodily imagery

gutenberg-faust-lead-by-nose · Goethe, Faust · vendor/phrasebank/gutenberg-seeds.yaml

Source: Goethe, Faust.

Untranslatable: not linked.

German de

Meine Schüler an der Nase herum—

Japanese ja candidate

教え子を煙に巻いてきた――

French fr candidate

j’ai mené mes élèves par le bout du nez —

Notes

Self-mocking confession; keep the dash/open enjambment if the surrounding verse permits.

Provenance: Goethe, Faust #2229; Taylor translation #14591

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