Learning English with TV-Shows #16: to rain on sb.’s parade
aus: LOST S05E16 -- The Incident
Bernard: People try their whole lives to get themselves a nice, quiet place near the ocean where they can live in peace. And we did it. That’s what we made for ourselves.
Sawyer: Well, I hate to rain on your parade, but… your condo’s about to go ka-blooey.
Kate: Jack has a bomb.
Rose: Who cares?
Kate: Excuse me?
Rose: It’s always something with you people. Now you say “Jack’s got a bomb”. And what, you guys are all gonna try to stop him, right?
to rain on sb.’s parade -- Jemandem in die Suppe spucken, die Stimmung verderben, in die Parade fahren
Weitere Begriffe
condo -- Eigentumswohnung
ka-blooey -- onomatopoetisch, Geräusch einer Explosion
Live-Auftritt von Duffy bei Wetten Dass..?, performing “Rain On Your Parade”:
I’m gonna rain on your parade.
No, I won’t take it again.
And I’ll keep raining, raining, raining over you.
Zum “Lost”-Finale will ich nix sagen. Aber generell finde ich das eine sehr schöne Rubrik von dir!
Danke