Expressions

[wordchick.livejournal.com]

How common an expression is Я не буду плясать (для тебя/вас)? Can it be understood without any context? And can anyone tell me how сто пудов acquired its present meaning?

Comments

[oryx_and_crake]

Я не буду плясать (для тебя/вас) - is not an expression, it is just a sentence, so I don't exactly get what you mean by it being common or uncommon.

сто пудов means a big weight (пуд is 16 kg), so I guess the meaning transposed into a weighty opinion, and then into something that is undoubtably true.

[wordchick.livejournal.com]

My mistake. I thought it was an expression.

[-ufo-.livejournal.com]

1. it depends on what you are going to say. "i'm not doing what you want me to" - я не буду плясать под твою/вашу дудку. "i won't dance for you" - я не буду танцевать
2. сто пудов = 100%. but depending on intonation may have meaning - "like i believe you"

[wordchick.livejournal.com]

1. When one of my co-workers is very angry, she'll say this to her students. I assumed this was an expression, because no one ever says плясать otherwise. I thought it meant something like "I won't work if you won't."

[-ufo-.livejournal.com]

it's possible she meant smth like "are you waiting for me to dance to get your attention?"
then she just said it in a wrong way

[quorax.livejournal.com]

Maybe she says "Я тут плясать перед вами не буду" или "Я тут одна плясать не буду"? If so then it actually could mean "I won't work if you won't."

[taurvat.livejournal.com]

True, "тут" is quite important emotional addendum in this phrase.

[adenalinka.livejournal.com]

Я не буду плясать под твою/вашу дудку - I won't do what you want if I don't want it. OR You don't have a power over me.

сто пудов (usually стопудово) = exactly, for sure, etc. (Я сто пудов напишу статью до завтра // Она сто пудово даст мне свой номер телефона // Это стопудово была она, я ее узнал)

[pigmeich.livejournal.com]

Is it плясать под твою дудку maybe?