Acho que tá meio no oba, oba.

English translation: I think it's kind of like, woah!

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Portuguese term or phrase:	Acho que tá meio no oba, oba.
English translation:	I think it's kind of like, woah!
Entered by:	Julianete Azevedo

02:27 Aug 22, 2009

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Portuguese term or phrase: Acho que tá meio no oba, oba.

Olá,
como vcs diriam, bem coloquialmente, a expressão: "Acho que tá meio no oba. oba"?
A situação é um jovem descrevendo uma atividade lúdica que se transformou mais em uma festa do que uma atividade séria. Os propósitos da atividade se perderam no meio do caminho.
Obrigada

Julianete Azevedo KudoZ activity Questions: 56 (none open) Answers: 0 Brazil
Local time: 18:25

I think it's kind of like, woah!

Explanation:
"I know we are both kinda like "woah" right now. ..."
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jack_speak
Local time: 17:25

Grading comment

Thanks Jack.
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4 +4

I think we've gone off the track/off-track

Carla Selyer

I think there's some hanky panky going on.

TheFloyd

I think it's kind of like, woah!

jack_speak

I think we're fooling around.

Leniel Maccaferri

Summary of reference entries provided

lost in the shuffle or sidetracked . .

David Drysdale (X)

Discussion entries: 1

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15 mins confidence:

I think it's kind of like, woah!

jack_speak
Local time: 17:25
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Thanks Jack.

17 mins confidence:

I think we're fooling around.

Explanation:
English Idioms WM 1.3a

fool around
play, play around, goof off, horse around; have sex with someone who is not your spouse, have an affair
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We don't fool around in her class. She's very strict.
Rita asked Jon for a divorce. She knows he's been fooling around.

Leniel Maccaferri
Brazil
Local time: 18:25
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

4 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

I think we've gone off the track/off-track

Explanation:
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/off the track.h...

http://dictionary.babylon.com/OFF_TRACK

Carla Selyer
Local time: 23:25
Native speaker of:

Portuguese,

English

18 hrs confidence:

I think there's some hanky panky going on.

Explanation:
In my opinion, although it could be my dirty mind, but I'm pretty certain it's not, oba oba refers to fun and games in a sort of sexual kind of way. Well at least in my part of Brasil it does ;)

TheFloyd
Brazil
Local time: 18:25
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English

Reference comments

1 hr peer agreement (net): +4

Reference: lost in the shuffle or sidetracked . .

Reference information:
That would depend on the context . . My first impression is something like "tico tico no fuba" which would be along the lines of just fooling around . .

However, in this case, since, you said, "se perderam no caminho" it might be translated as . . things got lost in the shuffle or sidetracked . . talk about idiomatic!

David Drysdale (X)
United States
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

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