Question

لقمه را از پشت سر به دهان گذاشتن

Answer 1

i guess:

put the cart before the horse:

Fig. to have things in the wrong order; to have things confused and mixed up. (Also with have.) You're eating your dessert first! You've put the cart before the horse. John has the cart before the horse in most of his projects

Comments

Hi

Bravo. I was really looking for it but futile.

Regards

Ali
 

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hi Ali

tnx dude :)
 

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سلام

لقمه را دور سر چرخاندن یا از پشت سر به دهان گذاشتن یعنی انجام دادن کار از راه سخت تر. اما این پاسخ بیشتر به اشتباه بودن ترتیب انجام کارها اشاره دارد نه انتخاب راهی دشوارتر برای انجام آنها.

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Hi,

Agree +1.

Also a friend of mine just suggested as follows :

To do a thing in a roundabout way!

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سلام بله بنده هم موافقم که این عبارت صحیح نیست و با خواسته سوال منطبق نیست. بهترین ترجمه اصطلاحی برای این عبارت انگلیسی شاید

سرنا را از سر گشاد نواختن (کارها را وارونه انجام دادن)

باشد.

Answer 2

It's far from straightforward to ...

Answer 3

do (something) the hard way

To do something by using the most challenging method, or at least not the easiest method.

 

"Of course, he crawled in through the window instead of just opening the unlocked back door — he has to do everything the hard way."

Answer 4

It seems there is no direct idiomatic phrase for this Persian idiom and we have to use simple, non-idiomatic sentences to imply this context. See the following:

http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/doing-something-through-most-difficult-way.3124430/#post-15803554