أحرق كرتهما
English translation: stole their thunder / burn their bridge(s)
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|  Selected response from: Diya Takrouri Türkiye Local time: 18:02 | ||||||
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17 mins confidence: 
stole their thunder Explanation: In the colloquial Levantine Arabic, yes, it means to steal somebody’s thunder; i.e. one is/becomes no longer worthy of attention. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 25 mins (2020-12-03 15:49:26 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- You can consider using "burn their bridges", as an alternative to reflect the verb used in Arabic يحرق.  |
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21 mins confidence:
he incinerated them into nothingness Explanation: - -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 22 mins (2020-12-03 15:46:05 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://context.reverso.net/translation/english-arabic/incin... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 37 mins (2020-12-03 16:01:37 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- /Cut to the bone: reduce to a minimum -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 59 mins (2020-12-03 16:23:20 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://www.slideshare.net/mohilove/american-english-idioms-... |
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5 hrs confidence:
he burned their card / Burn Card Explanation: Card the same English word is used in Arabic dialect and once a word becomes popular, people start to conjugate it as per the sentence. so you see : كرتهما , The plural form of two مثنى and if singular added to singular masculine ; كرته to singular feminine ; كرتها plural ; كرتهم plural added to plural ; كروتهم and so on And I am sorry to estimate my answer as " Highest - I am sure" because this is Arabic thing. Hope you understand it . -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 hrs (2020-12-03 23:43:13 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "In card games, a burn card is a playing card dealt from the top of a deck, and discarded" And that is what happened to the other two siblings became discarded and all attention geared to the new "Arrival" . |
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1 day 5 hrs confidence: 
lowered their position Explanation: affected their position and attracted all the attention |
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3 days 22 hrs confidence:
Burned their (both) world, ruined their (both) world (globe) Explanation: What I think is the word here is كرة not كرت and meaning would be the child has shaken the world of parents, in terms of responsibilities and and taking care of it. كرت does not fit here, and not the thunder or rain in my opinion, كرة simply means globe or ball. Example sentence(s):
https://www.almaany.com/ar/dict/ar-en/%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9/ |
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