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In English universities, the extra-curricular representative structure for students is called the Students' Union.
University College London (UCL) Union website
The objects of the Union are the advancement of education of Students at UCL for the public benefit by:
4.1 promoting the interests and welfare of Students at UCL during their course of ...
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The closest I can come up with (for North-America) are
Fundraiser;
Fundraising party;
Benefit party.
A quick Google search on multiple combination of these words seems to indicate that the most commun name for these kind of events is
"Student fundraiser party"
But in Ireland and UK there's a word for exactly that:
[Rag][1]
Also known as ...
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There is no such equivalent in English. You have to, therefore, paraphrase it like this:
An event organized by the student representatives of the __ department.
Check out leo.org and type in Fachschaft to read the discussion.
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Dog's Dinner or Dog's Breakfast seems most appropriate, e.g. "it was a real dog's dinner".
You can also use Kettle of fish, but that is perhaps more obscure.
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Perhaps a word which means something more along the lines of "unqualified truth" is Equivocal - of doubtful nature or character.
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Fruit punch is the generic term, but has no particular negative implication.
Suicide punch or suicide soda is popular (or was so ten years ago) among adolescents. From the Urban Dictionary
When you go to a restaurant or fast food place where there is a Soda Fountain, and you take the large cup and go to each of the drinks/sodas, and one by one fill ...
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Consider some of the following.
• farrago, “A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things” (typically pejorative)
• muddle, “A mixture; a confusion; a garble”
• melange, “A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things ” (often not pejorative, and has additional sense “A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half ...
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Unqualified truth connotes a truth or fact that has no conditions and is true or factual regardless of circumstances, time or opinion. It has no qualifiers attached.
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I think that this dude is talking about idioms...
Idiom:
"Go in one ear and out the other"
Meaning: Without any influence or effect; unheeded:
Example:His mind was made up, so my arguments went in one ear and out the other.
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In the UK the general term is garage, which can mean 3 things:
A building next to your house where you keep your car;
What Americans call a gas station, ie a place selling fuel;
Any place where mechanics work repairing and servicing cars.
In the UK tyre repairs are dominated by a few well known national companies so you'd be more likely to say 'I took my ...
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There is no single English name for a repair shop specializing in fixing flat tires, as Bill points out.
Names for business types, like names for food. are intensely cultural and vary widely from locality to locality, and thus from language to language.
In English one only finds names for businesses that are commonly encountered in Anglophone areas. This ...
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In the USA, Japan, and Taiwan, four types of shops specialize in fixing flat tires:
Tire stores
Gasoline stations that also have shops that repair cars or motorcycles
Auto repair shops
Motorcycle repair shops
In Japan, though, you usually can't get a flat tire on a motorcycle repaired at an automobile repair shop, and in Taiwan, there are so ...
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Maybe ...
In vain
... might be suitable. It's hard to tell from the example. You were waiting for the sun but then darkness fell. You were waiting for the sun but it did not appear. You were waiting for the sun but something else happened.
You were waiting for the sun but it was in vain.
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Use brutal honesty or brutally honest if you want to emphasize that a frank truth is hurtful or that the speaker is insensitive.
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Certainty is a noun meaning that which is certain and indisputable.
"It is a certainty that you are a bad soccer player."
Indisputable is an adjective that means not disputable; not open to question; obviously true.
"It is indisputable that he is bad at soccer."
Naked truth means a truth that is plain, conspicuous, untempered, unmitigated, not hidden, ...
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There is factual "truth" in that it is a something that cannot be disputed such as "I am sitting at my desk right now".
Then there is opinion "truth" such as "The truth is, you're a pain in the butt - everyone here thinks so!"
Most of the answers already provided will fall under opinion "truth" including:
candidness
brutal honesty
bluntness
...
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As suggested by other answers, blunt, frank and candid are all appropriate adjectives for a person willing to express even unpleasant truths.
An idiom for the action itself is to give it to [someone] straight.
Another option (and one more similar in form to your direct translation of the original) is the unvarnished truth.
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