abquatschen

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German

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  • Hyphenation: ab‧quat‧schen
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Verb

abquatschen (weak, third-person singular present quatscht ab, past tense quatschte ab, past participle abgequatscht, auxiliary haben)

  1. (colloquial) to persuade someone to give something away or to give something up
    • 2007 October 15, Michael Behrendt, “Ein Elite-Polizist setzt die Maske ab”, in Berliner Morgenpost, page 14:
      „Wir sind zu einer Wohnung gerufen worden, in der ein Ex-Fremdenlegionär seine Kinder als Geiseln genommen hatte, weil man nach der Scheidung seiner Frau das Sorgerecht zugesprochen hatte“, berichtet ein Teamkollege. „Sero hat den Sturm auf die Wohnung abgelehnt und dem Mann die Kinder abgequatscht, weil er die Meinung vertrat, dass der Täter schlicht emotional am Ende und auch nicht gefährlich war. Niemand wurde verletzt.“
      “We were called to an apartment where an ex-foreign legionnaire had taken his children hostage because custody had been given to his wife after his divorce,” says a teammate. “Sero refused to storm the apartment and persuaded the man to let the children go, because he was of the opinion that the perpetrator simply was in emotional distress and did not pose an immediate thread. Nobody was injured.”
    • 2017 May 20, Rainer Schäfer, “Radikale Weine”, in taz.die tageszeitung, volume 11330, →ISSN, page 28:
      Als sie nach dem Weinbaustudium ins elterliche Weingut zurückkehrte, „quatschte sie dem Vater ein paar Parzellen ab“, mit Riesling, Spät- und Weißburgunder.
      When she returned to her parents’ vineyard after completing her studies in viticulture, she “persuaded her father to give away a few parcels” of Riesling, Pinot noir and Pinot blanc.

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