How to insert hash into hash in Perl

Question

I have a simple hash defined somewhere in the main file

our %translations = (
    "phrase 1" => "translation 1",
    # ... and so on 
    );

In another file I want to add some more translations. That is, I want to do something like this:

push our %translations, (
    "phrase N" => "blah-blah",
    # ....
    "phrase M" => "something",
    );

Of course this code wouldn't work: push doesn't work with hashes. So my question is: what is a simple and elegant way to insert a hash of values into an existing hash?

I wouldn't want to resort to

$translations{"phrase N"} = "blah-blah";
# ....
$translations{"phrase M"} = "something";

since in Perl you're supposed to be able to do things without too much repetition in your code...

Answer 1

%translations = (
    "phrase N" => "blah-blah",
    # ....
    "phrase M" => "something",
    %translations
    );