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"You had cut the cheese."
Translation:Você tinha cortado o queijo.
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No, it isn't.
But "você está com a faca e o queijo na mão" is.
That is: you have everything you need to do what you want. Or everything is on your side.
Literally: you have the knife and the cheese in hands.
Now, ist "you had cut the cheese" an idiomatic expression in English?
Oh man....here the cheese has "chulé" smell.
I don't know why people would carry cheese in their shoes...
An idiom that I think approaches this occurrence in English here in Brazil would be: "You have a yellow hand." ("você está com a mão amarela"). But in this case the focus is not necessarily on the smell, but on the noise.
Since this is an idiomatic expression in English, as MRMsys had already pointed out (past perfect use totally unintentional!), I was really hoping to learn how to say "You had farted" em português. Or better yet, an equally ridiculous Portuguese idiom for "You had farted."
"You had farted" = "Você tinha peidado" or "Tu tinhas peidado" or yet "Você/tu peidara/s".
An idiom that I think approaches this occurrence in English here in Brazil would be: "You have a yellow hand." ("você está com a mão amarela"). But in this case the focus is not necessarily on the smell, but on the noise.
either [Tu tinhas cortado o queijo] or [você tinha cordado o queijo] are correct. Otherwise [tu cortaras] e [você cortara] should be accepted.
For example: Ele já [cortara] o queijo (he already had cut the cheese) quando os amigos [chegaram]. (when his friends arrived).
it express something happened before another fact already finished
