In English, the Swedish phrase “portabel Grill” literally means portable grill, to my limited knowledge. What I am wondering is, does it have any other, perhaps slang, significance in it’s mother tongue?
I heard it in a song, and from my understanding, with the overall topic of the song, it makes no sense for the phrase to be in there, so that’s why I thought it had some other meaning.
Possible slang meaning in Swedish?
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juexue
June 5, 2010 at 4:07 pm
No, I never heard of any different meaning of that expression. Curious question … Why do you ask?
Edit: Oh, I understand – I think that’s not very common words in song texts … Was it maybe this text: http://www.seekalyric.com/song/Markoolio/Emma__Emma ?
In that case, I think he mentions the portable grill just because it’s a rhyme on the line before. That part of the text is about a taxi travel, and he says to the taxi driver something like “come on, come on, faster, I’ll give you as much tip as you want, and a portable grill!”. I would say it’s a nonsense rhyme.