Ich hätte es jetzt als "Seine Manieren ließen zu Wünschen übrig" verstanden

the usual expression is "to leave a lot to be desired," so it seems to me that the writer wants to say that the person's manners were "unter aller Sau," that is to say, the person had no manners at all.

Danke!

Seine Manieren vererbten alles an die Sehnsucht.

#4..

Niemand würde so etwas sagen (1 hit bei Google.. und zwar der Beitrag, ich glaube das spricht für sich)

My guess is that XY was trying to be funny by translating literally. :-)

Niemand würde was sagen?

Das was bei #4 gepostet wurde "Seine Manieren vererbten alles an die Sehnsucht."

Das klingt höchst poetisch und würde vielleicht in irgend einem.. Roman oder so passen, aber nicht in der Umgangssprache wie es hier höchstwahrscheinlich auch gemeint war.

Indeed, Dude.

Mandinga, this doesn't get even get one hit on google: His majesty left everything to Desiree.

@ dude

Well.. even if, he should somehow indicate this. Because he would not be the first one here translating literally and being serious about its correctness. I just think about those people who search for help in this forum who don't have any command of English, that are beginners and aren't able to decide whether this is correct or just a try to be funny....

I apologise if I caused any confusion. I thought my suggestion was so rediculous that no one would consider taking it seriously. The usual English expression is as dude stated in #2. To me, "His manners left everything to desire" sounds so abnormal that it is just waiting to be translated "literally". And "to leave something to someone" usually means the same as "jmdm etw. vererben". "His majesty left everything to Desiree" is exactly the same construction, and is perfectly good, unambiguous English.

M.E. handelt es sich um ein Wortspiel, das auch auf Deutsch funktioniert. Normalerweise sagt man: "Seine Manieren ließen (nichts/viel) zu wünschen übrig" und hier: "Seine Manieren ließen alles zu wünschen übrig".

Apology accepted ;)

Of course the translation was quite rediculous but I just wanted to emphasise it for those readers here who, as I said, aren't able to decide whether it is correct or not. So, maybe next time you should add an emoticon or sth. that makes it obvious ;)

Just for the record: ridiculous (##11, 13), ließen zu wünschen übrig (#1).
wortspielendes Vorschlag erscheint mir der passendste.

würde das im normalen Sprachgebrauch so verwenden