Mist postscript

OK, I was trying to keep this a family friendly blog by sticking with the most polite synonym for "snap" that I could find. But as Nancy rightly commented, it means more than "drat." Stefan adds that I mistranslated "Mist" as well. He says Mist is the manure one shovels out of a stable ("usually mixed with urine and wheat straw"). So oddly, Mist literally means what snap only figuratively alludes to in order to convey something even more uncouth. Perhaps there's a linguistic terms for such a twist?