Çin'de önce soyadımızı sonra adımızı koyarız.
- In China, we put our family name first, then our name.
Soyadınızın yazılışı nasıl?
- What's the spelling of your family name?
Aile adınızın yazılımı nasıl?
- What's the spelling of your family name?
Tom mahkum edilmişse aile adımız mahvolacak.
- Our family name will be ruined if Tom is convicted.
In other words, they might go to the devil and starve—Hobson's choice!—for all the other factories were owned by men who offered no better terms.
Tommy-axe. A corruption of tomahawk: an instance of the law of Hobson-Jobson (q.v.).