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55 Cards in this Set
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He draped a towel around himself |
Se cubrió con una toalla |
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Ponte esto sobre los hombros |
Drape this around your shoulders |
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Capelin Herring Bass |
Capelán Arenque Róbalo |
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Conservatives often dismiss integration as social engineering run amok |
Los conservadores a menudo descartan la integración como ingeniería social desbocada |
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A flame out |
Un fracaso espectacular |
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To play footsie with sb |
Confabular con sb |
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It descended to a well-appointed shambles that wealth can disguise |
Un desorden bien equipado... Bien amueblado |
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He was the fall guy Escape goat |
El Chivo expiatorio El cabeza de turco (m y f) |
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Cardiac arrest |
Para cardíaco |
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He abused the power invested to him by the people |
Él abusó del la autoridad que el pueblo le confió |
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His obstruction of Congress does not befit the leader of a democratic society |
Su obstrucción al Congreso no corresponde al líder de una sociedad democrática. |
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Forewarned is forearmed |
Hombre precavido/prevenido vale por dos |
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Me encuentro a la disyuntiva de siguir trabajando como asalariado o crear mi propia empresa |
I am facing de dilemma of ... Keep working for a wage earner |
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Un casa en ruinas Una vecindad en ruinas |
A run-down house |
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On pins and needles |
En ascuas On tenterhooks On edge |
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I do dote on her |
La adoro |
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Don’t trifle with me |
No juegues con migo Tratar a la ligera |
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She is finicky about her food |
Contumeriosa Es melindrosa con la comida Fussy-quisquilloso, exigente melindroso |
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No seas hocicón Él es un hocicón |
Gossipy Gossip |
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Cayó de hocicos No metas el hocico |
He fell flat on his face Don’t meddle/stick your nose in it |
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Some weevils can cause a lot of damage to the crops |
Algunos gorgojos pueden dañar las cocechas |
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Darse ínfulas Él que se da ínfulas de escritor |
To be high and mighty He fancies himself as a writer |
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The norms put in place are to very strict |
Las normas implementadas |
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Estar delicado de salud Enfermizo, débil |
To be in poor health Sickly, frail |
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A rogue operation |
Una operación deshonesta/corrupta |
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It took three hours to lay out the case |
La exposición del caso tardó tres horas |
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He leveraged his marketing skills to ... |
Hizo uso de su mercadotecnia para ... |
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He waded into a controversy |
Se metió en la controversia Meter la cuchara |
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Sb has to keep others in line |
Sb tiene controlar los demás |
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A cultural wasteland |
Un desierto cultural Yermo, tierra yerma |
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To chime in |
Meter baza Intervenir en asuntos o conversaciones de otros |
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Nastiness |
Maldad, canallada, bajeza, repugnancia DISGUST,REVULSION, REPUGNANCE. |
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Road warrior |
Correcaminos, Trotamundo |
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La prensa trató de desprestigiarlo, pero su popularidad no disminuyó |
The press tried to run him down/disparage, but... |
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When the herds started to thin out ... |
Arralar o ralearse |
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I got a bine to pick with these guys |
Tengo cuentas que ajustar con estos tipos Bine-planta trepadora |
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Ánimo! No te desanimes! |
Don’t be discourage! |
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Apagar |
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Hotline |
Línea directa |
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The trading is brisk |
Las operaciones bursátiles son enérgicas/dinámicas |
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Halfway house |
(Rehab) centro de reinserción |
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Thank you for the reassurance, though I am still worried |
Consuelo |
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I need reassurance that it won’t happen again |
Reconfirmación Confirmación |
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Pull OUT all the stops |
Usar todo los recursos disponible Hacer todo lo posible |
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One seems to be so forlorn |
Uno parece tan triste |
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I’ll get around to it by and by |
Me encargaré de eso en un rato |
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Pila bautismal |
Baptismal font |
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No hay nada que me reviente más |
There’s nothing that riles me more |
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La frase acuñada por Meacham |
The phrase coined by ... |
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Trump’s signature rallies |
Los mítines clásicos de Trump |
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Keep it together |
Evite problemas Mantenga su vida en orden |
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Blandishments To blandish |
Halagos, lisonjas Halagar, engatusar |
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Blandishments To blandish |
Halagos, lisonjas Halagar, engatusar |
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To split hairs |
Buscarle tres pies al gato |
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A prescient phrase |
Una frase protética |
