transemacabre | Boy, be off with you!: The Manual of Egyptian Arabic

pm215 discusses an English-Arabic phrasebook from 1926 which s/he had bought, and the hilarious phrases contained within that the author apparently felt a young British gent of the time period would need while touring Cairo. Such gems include:

I am determined to buy this monkey.
The chloroformed man slept like the dead.
I'm accustomed to smoke opium.
Both of them squint and three of their children are deaf mutes.

I cannot even imagine in what context those sentences might come up.

I looked up the book on Google Books, and oh golly, there it is! A few more phrases that

pm215 didn't share with us:

Is it true that you have committed every sin in the Decalogue?
She died a natural death.
Don't be afraid, madam, I will protect you from the Jinns and Afrits.
The poison is killing him.
The hypocrisy of these Jews is beyond belief.
I wonder if any battle was fought on this spot in ancient times, for skulls and bones of all kinds are scattered everywhere.

Boy, be off with you!: The Manual of Egyptian Arabic

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