صد رحمت

Question

-امروز هوای اصفهان خیلی آلوده است. صد رحمت به هوای تهران.

Answer 1

Isfahan's weather is much too polluted today. It puts Tehran's weather to shame!

 

Attention: When we say X puts Y to shame, we mean "X has a much better quality compared to Y". Now, in the above sentence, I used this idiom sarcastically (as if air pollutions is a good quality)

To make it clear I give examples for both real use and sarcastic use of this idiom:

 

* real use: The elegant way she was dressed put the rest of us to shame.

* sarcastic use: He's so ugly that he puts Frankenstein to shame!!صدرحمت به فرانکشتاین ...

Comments

Nice job. Thank you so much for the time and clear answer +

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U R welcome

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put somebody/something to ˈshame:==»be much better than somebody/something 

Example:This new stereo puts our old one to shame.

اینجا یعنی جدیده بهتر از قبلیست یا (صد رحمت به جدیده)

ولی بر این اساس مثال شما میشه(صد رحمت به هوای اصفهان)نه هوای تهران

نمیدونم درست منظورو رسوندم!!!!؟

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Hi

Thanks for your comment.

You're definitely right, but it looks like you didn't read my whole answer. This is a sarcastic sentence (as if we consider polluted weather to be a good thing).