how to say “to roll up your sleeves” in Hebrew
לְהַפְשִׁיל אֶת הַשַּׁרְווּלִים
When there’s work to do, we call it “rolling up our sleeves” to “get our hands dirty,” in English.
The Hebrew expression for rolling up (the) sleeves is לְהַפְשִׁיל אֶת הַשַּׁרְווּלִים , where להפשיל means to roll up or to roll back (source in Mishnaic Hebrew, probably from Aramaic) and שַׁרְווּל means sleeve.
, where להפשיל means to roll up or to roll back (source in Mishnaic Hebrew, probably from Aramaic) and שַׁרְווּל means sleeve.For example:
הַבְּחִירוֹת מִתְקָרְבוֹת, וְהַיְּרִיבִים מַפְשִׁילִים אֶת הַשַׁרְווּלִים.
Elections are approaching, and the opponents are rolling up their sleeves.
