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YIDDISH PHRASE
וואַרפן די פרײַזן

EXAMPLE(S)

אז שוין סופ די 60ער יאָרן האָט זיך אין ווילנע געגרינדעט אַ קאאפעראטיוו פון יידישע גראווירער מיטן צוועק ניט צו דערלאזן צום וואַרפן די פרײַזן...

NOTES

I am reading and translating an article from the Yivo Bletter from May 1931 about Leo Jogiches and it uses the phrase וואַרפֿן די פרײַזן. It says that a קאָאָפעראַטיוו established that its members could not do this. How would I translate this? Does it mean to "jack up the price"?

COMMENTS

  • Makhno

    They didn't want to "beat down the price", which is the opposite of "jack up the price" - I think.

    YID: varfn; DE: werfen, EN: throw, toss, cast (Beinfeld/Bochner 2002, p. 276)

    Brainstorming: .... capitalists beat down prices.... workers pay the real price..... hard working conditions... burning sweatshops in Bangladesh.... the Triangle Fire in NY...... Jewish workers founding a "Kooperative"!?..... YIddish is such a socialist language...

    4 August 2014, 1:59 pm