Tfoo-tfoo

Here's the link to Condi Rice's on-the-record background briefing coming into Israel.

Here.

Not a word about "settlements".

Tfoo-tfoo.(*)



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Tfoo-tfoo is an expression used while/after saying something from which one either needs protection or after one has just extricated oneself out of a tough spot or to ward off the Evil Eye, like:

"He dashed into the street after the ball but, tfoo-tfoo, luckily for him there was no traffic".

Tfoo-tfoo.

Arabs use it also.