Englisch: blankety-blank liarFranzösisch translation: sacrée graine de menteur 
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| Glossareintrag (aus Frage unten abgeleitet) | | Englisch Begriff oder Satz: | plain ol' garden blankety-blank liar | | Französisch Übersetzung: | sacrée graine de menteur | | Eingetragen von: | Madang |
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Art/Literary - Dichtung und Belletristik | | Englisch Begriff oder Satz: blankety-blank liar | | ...but was just a plain ol’ garden variety blankety-blank liar |
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| un menteur extrêmement ennuyeux
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un menteur ennuyeux
if related to the game
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Note added at 30 mins (2004-03-29 19:16:48 GMT)
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Airing: 11:30-12 noon Monday-Friday, April 21-June 27, ABC.
Personnel: Bill Cullen, host; Bob Clayton, announcer. A Bob Stewart Production. Taped in New York City.
Description: Breathtakingly boring word game.
Game Play: Two teams competed, comprised of a celebrity and their contestant partner. Cullen revealed a subject the players were to identify, along with six numbers which were clues to the subject’s identity. Taking a card from a spinning wheel to his right, Cullen then placed it in an electronic machine on his podium, which selected one of the four players and a dollar amount from $10 to $100. The player chosen selected a clue and was given a chance to identify the subject. They could then double their money by solving a Blankety Blank, a funny riddle with a one- or two-word blank at the end. The first team to win $2
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Note added at 31 mins (2004-03-29 19:17:52 GMT)
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Blankety Blanks
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Blankety-blank comes from the quiz game - the UK one was very popular - but here I think ít is a euphemistic substitute for an obscene word: plain ol’ garden variety f***ing liar. The speaker says "blankety-blank" rather than a four-letter word.
This may be the correct answer, but may also be wide of the mark. As for a French translation of "plain ol’ garden variety f***ing liar", I'll leave that to the natives ...
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| une espèce de menteur/sacré menteur
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A blankety blank liar is the US equivalent to the UK blinking liar. It's a way of getting around saying a swear word. The preceding part
"plain ol' garden variety" makes it clear that the person is a true liar, as if he was born to be a liar. You plant a tomato seed and a tomato grows. You plant a liar seed (figuratively speaking, of course) and a liar grows.
Robert & Collins Dictionary
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| un fichu menteur
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Dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford
As this refers to the game, you can hardly translate that in French, though similar games did exist.
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ou donc fieffé, ou encore sacré...
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