VOCABULARY USE of Swindle (out of): timar, Acquiesce: consenter,

ENGLISH estafar acceder

Stuntman: doble Creak: chirriar (hinges: Curt tone: borde

(peliculas) bisagra)
Smooth tone: persuading,
Disregard (of): ignorar Tick: tic tac convincing

Lure: Encanto, atraer Patter; pisada (sofr) Ingratiate: congraciarse:

animals getting close look good to sb
Futile: inutil, en vano
Tap: golpeteo, taconear, Congratulate on: felicitar
Customary: habitual,
blind people
acostumbrado Sympathise: empatizar
Frame of mind: mood to
Browse through: ojear Regard: considerer,
do it
converning, apreciar
Look over: echar un
Turn of mind: inclinación
vistazo, inspeccionar Held in high regard
Mindset: actitud
Smashed hopes: Impervious (to):
esperanzas hechas añicos Operate on, admitted impermeable, insensible
into, cared for
Bring about: make it Slump: desplomarse,
happen, provocar Pick up a channel: catch depression (economy)
signal
Play our part: Sag: caerse, por el peso
desempeñar nuestro Tax evasion
Saggy skin: older people
papel
Escapism: escape from
Droop: colgar, decaer
Dumb: mudo reality, fantasy
eyes dropping
Hindrance: traba, Run off: imprimir
Tilt: inclinarse, recostarse,
impedimento
Phrase it more tactfully: tendencia
Disturbance: interrupcion, put into better words
Know virtually no Arabic:
perturbacion (middle
Call for: requerir, exigir, prácticamente
night noises)
pronosticar
Put by: apartar, reservar
Grievance: queja,
Boast: show off, contar
reclamacion Put in: contribuir, aportar,
con, poseer
trabjar
Sorrowful: afligido,
Altogether: en total, en
apenado Put down: pay deposit,
general
menospreciar, sacrificar,
Claim: demanda,
All together: todos juntos anotar
declaracion, asegurar
Recede: desvanecerse, Border on: rozar
Summon: orden de
recular (tide)
comparecencia, Edged out: vencer
Acquaint with: familiarizar
Summons: citar Edge up: get closer
instruct on, notify/inform
Call an election Devoid: falto de
about
As for: en cuanto a, con Commonplace: común
Comply: cumplir, acatar
respecto a
Parlance: jerga, habla Carrier pigeons Set out: salir de viaje,
presentar, exponer (plan)
Aptly: acertadamente Get on: llevarse bien,
progress, triunfar Set on sb: atacar, perro
Impel: incitar
Put up: hospedar, Set about: ponerse
Credit for
a,comenzar/ atacar,
Put up with: tolerar
Claim for damages: victim
reclamar daños y Take up: absorver.
Set off: comenzar viaje,
perjuicios Comenzar hobby, aceptar
cualquier proceso (laugh,
oferta
Be well-known for fireowrks…)
Get over with: terminar
Prides on Set to ing: comenzar a
con
hacer algo
Count on
Put off: desalentar
Set up: establish
Abstained from
Call in: hacer pasar,
Outstay your welcome:
Shrink from: evitar, llamar, pasarse por, visit (
abuser hospitalidad
escaper de alguien a doctor)
Outwit: + clever
Have a flair for: talento, Give in to; sucumbir
facilidad Outclass: not as good as
Going on: sobre los, por
everyone else
Ban from sth: prohibir cumplir
hacer algo Outmanoeuvre: ser +
Draw up: redactar, traer,
habil que
Envisage: doing sth: levantar, arrive/stop
pretender, tener pensado (vehicles) Outshine: opacar,
eclopsar
Set sth on doing x Take sth in: asiilar, take sb
in: tomar el pelo Outnumber: ser mas que
Dissuade from
Take in: make narrower Outdo: supercar a,
Found excuse for ing clothing mejorar a
Decide from Stand up for: defender a Cease: detenerse, parar
Delay in getting Come up against: trioezar Pay no thought
Exempted from con
Cut down: reducir, talar
Account for Settle for: conformarse
Cut off: cortar supply,
con
Abandoned ing amputa,
Make out: cheque,
Be in the mood for Cut in: interrupt,
addressed to
adelantar vehicle,
Detest ing Pick on: acosar
Cut out: extraer, eliminar
Sympathised for ing Pick up on: percartarse de (tumor, bread of diet…)
Justify for Set in: establecerse (rain, Retaliate: contraatacar,
Shrew: musaraña pain…) tomar represalias

Make a fortune Set down: dejar por Rebuff: despreciar

escrito, dejar sobre algo
Crumble off: bread Pack sth in: terminar, make away with: robar
parar
Splinter: astilla, hacer spare bed: cama libre
astillas Go along with sth:
make out: fingir
consenter, aceptar
Flake: desconcharse
make no bones: decir
Squash: cambiar de
Scale: escamas, piel: claramnte
forma, hat..
mudar la piel
make allowances: hacer
Smash: breaking sth into
Pose a problem, a concesiones
pieces: glass,
question
make and mend: reciclar
Mash potatoes
Lay claims: reclamar
come in for: receive
Let go of the lead: soltar
Lay fundations: poner las (criticism)
la cuerda
bases
come b: acquired
Out of action: no able to
Stick up for someone; dar
be used come round to: change
la cara por
opinion
Out of work: no job
Keep at sth: persistir
come round: recobrar
Out of use: no use it
Get at someone: meterse consciencia
anymore, closed to access
con, sobornar, querer
come down with:
decir Out of duty: por deber,
enfermarse
obligacion
Own up: admitir
come into: inherited
Out of order: no se puede
Get on with: ponerse con,
usar come at: attack
llevarse bien
Off work: enfermo, sin ir a come out in: appear in
Fall behind: quedarse
trabajar your skin
atras
Look after: cuidar came up with: inform
Settle down to sth:
about, a good idea
ponerse comodo, Look at
asentarse, sentar cabeza come across as: da la
Look dor
impression de
Take sb in: enagañar
Look forward to
come about: ocurrir
Get out with sth
Look into: investigar
knocked down: arrollado
Get out of: escapar de,
Look out: cuidado
evadir, librarse de follow up: continuar,
Look over: revisar, investigar, seguimiento,
Push in: colarse
examiner posterior, consulta
Fall for sb: enamorarse
Look through: revisar, love on;continue
Talk sb round: intentar ojear
power of deduction
convencer
Look up: diccionario
at that address
Look sb up: buscar, try to
Look up to: admirar
contact sb outcry: manifestación,
do away with: eliminar protsta
algo
let down: decepcionar, to take no notice: no Bookbinding:
lanzar algo, desinflar, hacer caso encuadernacion
alargar ropa
not notice sth: no saberlo Bookworm: raton de
let up: acortar ropa biblioteca
benefit you: is in the best
let out: salir, liberar, of your interest Lawgiver: legistlator
agrandar ropa
fail to notice: no notar Footfall: paso
let on: reveal, compartir
shed light, throw light, Foot gold: safe ground
secreto, estrechar ropa
give new light not moving
standstill: inactivity,
upon receipt: when the Footstep
paron, alto
order is receibed: una vez
Frostbite: congelacion
stoppage: cease of recibido
activity, suspensión. Logbook: diario
he assumed incorrectly:
Atascado (pipe, factory)
he made the incorrect crack shot: buen tirador
danpem: humedecer assumption
penholder: portaplumas
infuse: infusionar + than likely: have every
likelihood, a good chance deck: cubierta barco, piso
plunge: sumergirse, bus, plataforma
of
zambullirse
Snow drop: flower garden wall: tapia
soak: dejar en remojo
Snow plough: quitanieves table leaf: alas de la mesa
round up: redondear,
reunir ppl, juntar animals Market gardening scuttle: escabullirse
:organic vegetables
convicted: condenado,
delcarado culpable Hen house

condemned: Raindrop: gota de lluvia VOCABULARY C2

building/man:death
Flower bed: tierra Cut back on: reducir
toddle: tambalearse gastos
Flower stalk: part of
(child, old ppl)
flower Get in with: juntarse con
lope: andar a zancadas
Moth: polilla Hang around:
stagger: tambañearse: esperar/merodear
Moth damage
cant be balanced (drunk)
Moth ball: pesticide Hang about: un momento
hobbled: walk with a
limp: cojear Moth wing Jump at (the chance)

shuffle: arastrar los pies, Cathedral close: piece of Pay off: amortizar pay-off
barajar land at the entrance soborno, finiquito

crutch: muletas Hand shape Run out of: quedarse sin

overthrow: mocion Hand punch: Sustainers: sustentador,

censura pedals
Bookmaker: corridor de
apuestas gambling Opinionated: testarudo
Compel: obligar experiencia), intrepid, Life and death
compulsive weary(cansado),
Give an take: toma y daca
discerned (exigente )
Domesticity
armchair (de pacotilla), Again and time: una y otra
Roadworthy: en inveterate (habitual), vez
condiciones de circular unwary (confiado)
High and dry: en la
Upturn: mejora In vain: en vano estacada

Outfall: desagüe In the región of: alrededor Fame and fortune

de (aprox)
Windfall: dinero caido del Thick and thin: buenas y
cielo In conjuction with: en en las malas
colaboración, junto con
Windbreaks: cortavientos, Touch and go: incierto
pantalla Get my goat: sacarme de
mis Casillas Flesh and blood: carne y
Rainfall: chubasco, hueso, misma sangre
precipitaciones Carry away: arrastrar
Life and soul: alma de la
Creditworthy: solvent, Fork out: apoquinar fiesta
able to pay loans
Hefty: pesado, robusto A por decisión
Downturn: recesión
Watch my step: be careful Dejection: abatimiento
Downfall: aguacero,
A tight budget Sorrow: pena
rusha?
Run wild Reculsion: repulsión
Kinship: familia,
parentesco Dead set on: decidido a Loahing: asco
Rough it: subsistir Dead set against: Dread: pavod
empeñado contra x
Shoestring budget: Astonishment: sorpresa
apretado In line with
Napologetic: no apologize
Dreary:deprimente Thumb a lift: highiking
Coil: bucle
Unguarded: espontaneo, Elbow people aside:
imprudente quitar de en medio Smidge: mancha

Judicious: sensate Face the music/the idea: Dimple: hoyuelo

afrontar las conseq. Pagar Endearing: adorable
Self.contained:
el pato
independiente Bursting at the seams:
Shoulder the burden: descoserse (como
Lodging: alojamiento
cargar con las conseq sardinas en lata)
Bon on the brink of,
Stomach the idea: digerir, Como apart at the seams:
verge, on the point of,
aceptar descoserse, ir mal
about to, bound to,
certain to, Degree of waste Coriander: cilantro
TRAVELLER: frequent, Suitable standard Subdue: contener,
independent, reprimir
Bring to life
seasones(mucha
Solver: platter, bandeja Put all your eggs in one As right as rain: healthy
basket: depender d una
Prong: puntal del tenedor Right on time
cosa
Fastidious, fussy, The film rights
Have a bigger fish to fry:
meticuloso
otras cosas q hacer Authority on the subject
In vogue: fashionable
Sweeten the pill: mejorar Converge: juntarse,
Wield: ejercer algo unpleasant reunirse

Prior to Take sth with a pinch of Cluster: racimo, apiñarse

salt: no creerse al pie d la
Dating as far back as 17th letra Rally: mitin, congregarse

Make use Spill the beans: tell people Remak on

Put x to good use secret info A burst of applause

Come as no surprise Sell like hot cakes A paneo f glas: hoja

A grain of throuth Get eggs on your face: A stroke of luck

embarrassed
COLLO: A grain of sand
Eat humble pie: admit
Consume: equivalent, youre wrong A gust of wind
time, quantity
Squeaked: churriar A speck of dust
Devour: news, books
Consumer slot: A stream of ??: oleada
Relish: challenge, thought programme consumer A ray of sunshine
Swallow: pride, news, pill issues
A sourceof amusement
Fleshy: carnosol RIGHT:
An item of clothing/news
Sensuous: sensorial In its own right: solo, sin
formar parte de otra cosa A rumble of thunder:
Chewy: gomoso retumbo
The right/wrong way
Luscious: exquisite round: del modo correcto A puff of smoke

Appetising To serve someone right: A state of emergency

te lo mereces
Pulpy PVERBS:
To be right under your
Overripe: pasado Set out: intend
nose
Underook: prometer, Take on: agre to
To make all the right
hacer x empreder,
noises: decir lo q quiero Look into, check out:
comenzar
oir investigate
IDIOM:
To be within your rights Follow up: inquire
The icing on the cake:
Be rights: cosas q se Stand out: highlight
algo q hace una situación
hacen correctamente
mejor todavía Find out: discover
In the right: estar en lo
Have a lot on your plate: Try out: test
correcto
to deal with
Point out: mention Exaggerated: overstated To strike the right note:
dar en el clavo
Put up with: tolerate TAKE:
To strike a chord: hacer q
Back down: concede Expection to: cabrearse,
la gente recuerde porque
ofenderse
Awe: asombro, terror es similar a x
Notice: prestar atencion
Sorrow Gullible: ingenuo,
The view: opiniar inocente, credulious,
Faced with trusting
Account of: en cuneta
Categorisex by/into Derisive: burlon
Issue: discrepar
In awe of Sweatshop: taller
Second place: less clandestino
Glazed with/in, --to,--
important
Observed in/at Scornful: despreciativo
A stand: adopter una
Of research into/on postura Apathetic: apatico

Your way to/towards Vrass: instrument de Contemptuous;

viento despectivo
Admen:publicistas
Woodwind: madera Suggestible: easy to
Shell out: gastar persuade
String: cuerda
Nagging: pester Nosy
Finely grained
Scope for research: extent Inquisitive: curioso
Incredible story (children)
Barrage: cortina de fuego
Seriously ill Upright: honesto
Essentiallt: inherently
Strongly worded Pushy: prepotente,
Obsolescence
Singulary successful ambicioso
Meanness: mean
Keenly priced Pragmatic: práctico
Trickle: slow momement
of water Widely believed Resourceful: habilidoso,
igenioso
Bring to light Carefully chosen
Discreet: descreto
Hold the wrong end of the Staggenly expensive
stick Tactful: con tacto
Someone of note:
Seriously undefunded important, intetesing, Rattling (chains):
famous traqueteo, shake,
Take your place sonajero, cascabel
To be in tune with
Dawn on; occur to Murmuring (people)
Go for a song: cheap
Includind: down to Creak (wooden floors,
To have a second tring rechinar
Whim: impilse
To settle the score: take Rumble (thunder, train on
Weight up: evaluate revenge, pagar deudas track) retumbar
Claim: contention
Slap (waves, hand-face) Go to your head callous:cuel
abofetear, chocar contra
Go over and over again in trustworthy:
Hiss (snake, steam, car, your mind
garrulous: parlanchin
sisear) wind
Go on record as: tell the
unflappable: sereno
Drip (tap) press
brazen: descarado
Tinkle (bell, broken glass) Go to waste: desperdiciar
tintineo fickle: variable, voluble
Go odd at a tangent:
Crunch (gravel, crisp, change the subject spineless: debil, sin
snow,) crujir character
Make a go of your
Slam (door= business: success woven: tejido
Growl (angry dog, people) To be the better of the try my hand: attempted
gruñido, drujido two
strike it: lucky
Peal (bells, laughter) A faux pass
replica place a lot of store on
bÊte noise
Squelch (mud) chapoteo patch: patchiness
fracas
Slash (angry person, rare: rarity
cour de grace
cutting cloth with a knife) be on cloud nine: happy
cortar, rajar nuance: tonalidad, matiz and excited
Click (door, lock) crimp: rizar, ser un through rose-tinted
problema spectacled: see only
Screech (parrot, brakes)
pleasant things
compliance: conformidad
Slither (snake, person)
escabullirse, reptar in my book: en mi opinion
spunky: valeinte
Go on: be spent on put yourself on the line:
manure: estiércol
take risk
Go in: enter, go in for: root out: extripar
entrar en una tip the balance: hacer
competicion eyestrain: vista cansada algo que tenga mas
probabilidad de suceder
Go out; ebb: reflujo, lopsided: torcido
decaer bruised egos: make you
dole out: repartir,
feel less valuable
Go for: fetch distribuir
contagious ciriticnsm
Go down with: ill bind. Amarrar
fatal dose of scepticism:
Go off: explode, go sour set great stone on: poner
flaw in the argument
atención
Go with: match feverish state of activity
empire: imperial
Go over/through: healthy bank balance,
examine enigmatic
criticism, dose of
mistrust scepticism
Manage without: go
without apathetic: apático
turnout of voters Keep a straight face: Crave: antojo, anhelar
(participants) serious
Flout: desobedecer
jaundiced criticism Nowehere near as much
Scrounge: gorronear
(prejuiciado), sense of
Footing: putno de apoyo,
humour (amarillento) Refuse to , object to ing
cimientos
sick sense of humour, Peevishly
Resourcefulness:
bank balance
habilidad, ingenio Give me a tow: remolcar
sore: loser
Submissivelty: Live through: resistir,
glut: exceso sumisamente pasar por x
sarge: aluvión Pristine: impoluto Live it up: disfrutar de la
vida (la casa x la ventana)
whirlwind: torbellino Outset: comienxo
Learn t olive with: aceptar
ignite: encenderse Outlook: pronostico,
x
perspectiva, actitud
yearn: anhelar
Live down sth: hacer que
Pin up: fijar con tachuelas
peel off: abandoner la gente se olvide de tu
Thrift: economía, ahorro error
shield: escudo
Array: variedad Live by your wits: earn
tinge: matiz
money dishonest, no
Toss: lanzar
shitter: persiana, regular employment
obturador Chatter: parloteo
Live up to your
barred: con rejas Unrivalled: sin igual, sin expectations
rival
bar: prohibir By word of mouth: oral,
Thud: batacazo no escrito
heady: que se sube a la
cabeza Parish: parroquia To lie face downwards:

bleat: balido Homesteads: finca To set foot on: visit

yap :ladrido Raven:cuervo To have a heart to heart:

intima
screech: chillido Moor:atracar, barco
To walk hand in hand: ir
Flock: rebaño Effete: amanerado, juntos, en armonía, pegar
inefectivo
Take early to (maths…) To stroll arm in arm: arm
Upheave: hacia arria resting in the curve of
Find yourself at odds:
disagree Feral: salvaje others arm

Live on: perdurar Yank: tirar, arrancar To be nose to tail: closely

behind the other
Set your sights on: be Harangue: sermonear
determined to To come face to face with;
Seethe: estar furioso having to deal with sth
Change your tune: take unpleasant
Unearth: exhumar,
back your words
desenterar
To live from hand to situación dif Little chance Hypocritical
mouth: have just enough success
Repusive
many to live on
Grasps the nettle: ser
Tenacious
To be made by hand: by a fuerte, hacker algo dificil
person unpleasant Spumps: bomba de aire
To flight tooth and nail: Play right into one’s hand: Valvles: pistons
making and effort hacer lo q alguien quiere
necesita y ayuda a quien Lop off:recortar, hair
To see eye to eye
compiten en contra, dar Splinter: espinilla, astilla
Tying the not: casarse ventaja
Lever: palannca
Hands tied: no poder Up for grabs: en juego,
hacer nada available won taken The final nail in the coffin

Cout my net: extender la Gung-ho entusitasta To call a spade a spade:

red, buscar a alguien llamar a las cosas por su
Blatantly: nombre
Bolt from the blue: descaradamente
sorpresa To go down the tubes: fail
Staggering: asombroso,
Time on her hands: con impactante A weak link in the chain:
mucho tiempo libre sb inferior to the other
Bleak: lúgubre, desolador parts
Calling the tone: en
Lukewarm: templado, To blow a fuse: lose your
control, en cargo
tibio temper
Carrying a torch for:
Decidedly: sin duda With no strings attached:
enamorado
Crux: crucial, punto unconditional
Rolled up their sleeves:
decisive Get your wires crossed:
oreoare for hard work
Inroad: avance misundertsnad
Up my sleeve: debajo de
la manga Disclose: revelar To shoot your bolt: fail

Cut death’s door: Throwaway: desechable Getinto gear: ser eficiente

enfermo Twist the knife: make sb
Unsung: no reconocido
Giving me the cold feel worse
Festoon: engalanar
shoulder: ignorer Be on the brink
Alternative
Get a grip: en control Set: the wheels In motion:
Cautionary empezar a hacer por
Lose your grip: perder
apoyos Collapsible: pegable Set your teeth on edge:
Get to grips with: hacer irritar
Detestable
esfuerzo entender la Set your sights on: focus
situación Honourable/honorary
on sth as one’s goal
Clutch of straws: querer Laborious
Pull a fast one: trick ssb
intentar algo para mejorar Loathsome: asqueroso,
repugannte
Set in stone: dificil de a bed of roses selfcontained: autonomo,
cambiar, no fleile autosuficiente
burn my boats: reduce
Run a tight ship: controlar your options antilock
algo de manera estricta y
the best of borh worlds: internts and purposes: a
efectiva
only benefits efectos practicos
Pull the strings: controlar
burn a note in your come over: hacerse
algo en secreto
pocket: tener dinero que engender
Run counter to: oponerte, quieres gastar
come up with the goods:
ire n contra
burn the midnight oild: producer que se require
Pull the other one: no trabjar hasta tarde
come in for: receive
creerte algo
get your fingers burnt blame/criticsm
Set A dangerous
fiddling while Rome come out in sympathy
precedent
burns: focusing on its with: aoyar
set The world on fire: trivial during a crisis, tocar
come round: pasarse,
remarkable, successfully el violin
dejarse convencer
run rings round sb: have money to burn
come btw: interponere
+major q tu
burn your bridges: take
come easily: ser facil
they have run rings round action you cannot reverse
all the opponents be coming along: arrive,
to be in place: en vigor
exist, improve
set the scene: describe
first place: ganadora
situation where sth is firs came first serced
about to happen take great pride in
come to terms with:
set out your stall: decir tu dress down:: informal aceptar un acuerdo
posicion
stuck behind a desk all cause a stir: causar
pull your weight: hacer day revuelo
tanto coo el otro
aoutlay: gasto Turn
set your heart on: querer desembolso
conseguir algo To take aturn for the
steer dear: evitar steer: better: improve
pull your socks up: hacer conducer, car
mas esfuerzos To have a nice turn of
hooked on the idea phrase: a way of saying
set/put the record sth ecpress yourself well
straight: la verdad raise some eyebrows:
surprised Not to know which way to
strike a pose: posar, foto turn: no saber q hacer
get up my nose: annoys
eyelid: parpado me To turn as reel as a
beetroot
assembly:asamblea, opt for
montage The turn of the century:
outdo: supercar, mejorar
cuando x century ends
our of the frame: not
brake: freno and y begins
possible
Not to turn a hair:r amain Brbrisk: paso ligero Admire FOR
unmoved inaffected
Swift denial: anunciar alfo Interfere IN
To toss and turn: move q no es verdad
Prohibit FROM
around while trying to
Rapid response
sleep Specialice IN
Quick catnap: briefsleep
To take it in turns Throw AT/NEAR
Golden hanshake:
A turn-up for the Congratulate ON
payment leave, reward
books:surprising and
good service Don’t care FOR
pleasing
Cut one’s teeth: gain Take pride IN
experience
Spur: incentive, inciter a Golden hello: prima de
Progress up the rungs: beinvenida
Relentless: incansable subir escalera
professional
Overreach: abarcar
demasiado A mixed blessing: Bueno y Strike it luckey: tener
malo mucha suerte
Scoff: mofarse de
Dog esat dog: envy The slightest whiff of:
Attest: testificar olor, tuffillo
competitive
Come/get to grips: hacer Snap ip sth: buy quickly
The jury’s still out: la
esfuerzo, entender and enthusiatcially
gente no a decidido aun
situación mejor
S quantum leap: enorme Track record: achivements
Springboard: trampolín and failures sb had had
mejora
Squat: sentarse en Mindet: set of attitudes
Quick fixes: soluciones
cunclullas
simples Keep your head down:
Thrust: empijar, imponer avoid trouble
Red ink: balance negativo,
Strap: correa, cinturon, perdidas Bounder: canalla
amarrar
Green shots: positivo Chav: polinpoligonero
Be an old hand:
Blue chips: empresa bien Lout: patron
experienced
establecida con acciones
Quick bite solventes Vamp: mujer fatal
empeine old fashioned
Fast lane: la ruta mas White godos:
rápida para success electrodomesticos Bag: bruuja

Quick Buck: money fast White knight: inversor q Bimbo: barbie

ayuda a una empresa Charmer: Encanto
Buck: ciervo, onejor, dila
Lest: for fear, that no sea Freshman: movato
Fast track: quick line in que
airport Spuse: conyuge
Apologise TO
Brisk nod: quick move Whizz kid:; niño prodigio
Consist OF
Head acknowledgment Bullish: ptimista
Chivalroud: cortes Comb through: peinar be out of sorts:
malhumorado, pachucho
Doting: cariñoso, Scale vb: escalar,
consentidor incrustarse over-heels: exagerado

Laddish: escandaloso Once and for all: de una disposed: dispuesto

vez por todas
Lanky: larguiducho go-lucky disposition
Settle and argument
Prickly: enfadica, happy-go-lucky:
quisquillloso Burrow into: cavar despreocupado

Wimpy: debilucho manned mission: por el pick in: escoger

hombre
Try as he might: por más walk out together; salir
que lo intentara Orange blob: mancha, juntos?
amasijo
However hard he might walk all over you:
have tried Turn aside from: aprovecharse de ti
mantenerse al margen
Hard though/as he tried walking into things: no
Turned to waiting: mira x dnd va, torpezarse
Much as he tried
Turn your hand to: walk off in bad temper:
Streak theatricality
dedicarse a caminar de mal humor
Romantic streak: vena
Turn into the drive: girar walk off with money: huir
romantica
al sgte camino con el dinero
Blurt out: sembuchar
Turn out walk by: pasar por
(secret, problem)
Colours Clash walked up to me: hacia mi
Bottle up: reprimir,
ocultar (problem, Not to think much of sb walkabout: caminata
emotions)
Rotten stale difference: walk out: largarse
Choke back: tragarse podrida y rancia
walk out on sb;
(tears, emotions)
Oppose sb that sb do sth abandonar
Fend off; esquivar opposed the leader that
bee's knees: octava
(criticisms, accusations, he resigned
maravilla, mejor d todos
blows(golpes)
Make allegations about
wobbly:tambaleante
Shoot down: derribar sb: acusar
(arguments, accusations knobbly: huesudo
Whatsoever: en absoluto,
Sweep aside; pasar por cualquiera que fuera, sea cobbled: hecho de piedra
alto (crisiticm accusations lo que sea, fuere lo que
fuere wobbled: tambalearse
Tease down: sonsacar( a
problem, a secret) Bogus: falso at sbs knee: a tus rodillas

Tore down: suavizar Hotchpotch:batiburrillo on sbs knee: de rodillas,

(criticism, accusations hundido en la miseria
kill the time:
Whip up: despertar dandle; hacer salrar sobre
8(rage, emotions) las rodillas
knee jerk reaction: penthouse: atico break off (a relationship);
exabrupto, reación terminar
bring off: llevar a cabo,
institiva
conseguir break open the egg
knee high to a
bring on labour: provocar break down (negotiations)
grasshopper: be very
+ coche: averiarse,
small/young bring over: traer, acercar
ponerse a llorar, derribar,
knees up: jarana, fiesta bring forward: adelantar
a snap strike: un golpe
una cita
go down on one knee: rapido
propose bring back: reintroducir,
all time low: punto mas
traer algo, evocar
knee deep in decorating: bajo, mínimo historico
metido hasta el cuello en, bring off: conseguir,
yolk: yema
llegar hasta las rodillas lograr
gaol: cárcel
paper over the cracks: friend of foe: amigo y
poner parches enemido vicinity: inmediaciones,
alredeedores
paper-weight: pisapapeles wear and tear: deterioro
por uso retailer: minorista
deliver a paper about
fall head over heels: make a sales pitch: charla
be a paper tiger: enemy
enamorarse promocional
seems strong but weak
perdidamente
tax return: declaracion de
hit the papers
bent over backwards: la renta
paper thin: muy delgada romperse el lomo,
run against in elections:
(lonchas, rebanadas) remover cielo y tierra,
competir
hacer lo imposible
doze off : sobarse
run for president
as busy as a bee: move
drowsy: soñoliento
quickly do a lot of things run down: en decadencia
slumber party: fiesta d
flesh and blood: carne de run through a campaign:
pijamas
mi carne ensayar
come by: pasarse, dar
as cunning as a fox: astuto run-in: desacuerdo
con, encontrar
bow and arrows: rebuke: reprimenda
come through: notarise,
weaponry
manifestarse. Hacer lo disqualified from:
necesario, lograr, superar shoddy: de mala calidad descalificar de
come along (well): break away: separarse, cantankerous:
progresar, aparecer, despenderse cascarrabias
acompañar
break up (spaceships); be as good as dead: como
come up with: inventarse, desintegrarse, separarse si estuciera muerto
conseguir
break out: fugarse, sinking spells: ataques de
come out with: ocurrirse, estallar, salir granos, debilidad
lanzar al mercado, manchas,
finger food: picoteo
aftermath: resultado, pull thorugh: recuperarse back off: retroceder, dejar
consecuencia de molestar
pull in: estacionar
afterthought: reparo, idea back up: driving echarse
pull off: sacarse, salir
adicional para atrás. Apoyar
adelante
drop behind: quedarse break-in: robo
pull down: cerrar
atrás
butt in: entrometerse
pull out: sacar, extraer,
drop in: pasar x
retirarse butter up: suavizar,
drop in on: pasar x endulzar
get down to: ir al grano
drop by: pasar x call ff dogs
get around: viajar con
drop off: dejar en coche frecuencia, evitar grimace: mueca

curbs: bordillo, contener get by with: arreglarselas check into: registrarse,

investigar
ramps: rampa, aumentar get through with:
supercar, sobrevivir, develop into: volverse,
pass on a family business:
localizar transformarse
dejar en herencia,
rechazar algo, morir get away with: librarse stand apart from:
mantenerse al margen
pass up: desaprovechar get off: bajarse, chilfrar
(the chance) (on) come upon: encontrar,
tropezarse
pass over: no tomar en get in: llegar a casa,
cuenta, obviar, limpiar entrar a un coche/uni steer: condcir, guiar

pass round: repartir, get on: llevarse bien, pep rally: espectaculo de
distribuir triunfar animadoras

pass through: cruzar get on with: ponerse a groom a horse: clear its
trabjar hair
pass out: desmayarse,
repartir go off: explotar, echarse a encore: bis
perder, marcharse ,sonar
be accepted for carriage: ill will: mala voluntad,
admitidas para el go out: salir, apagarse tirria
transporte
go on: seguir, partir, foul mouthed: grosero
retrieve: recuperar perdurar
ill mannered
cedar casket: ataud de go over: revisar, darle
ill at ease: cohibido,
cedro vueltas,
incomodo
handset: telefono, hacer a go back: regresar,
ill timed: inoportuno
mano retomar, remontarse a
ill gotten: ilicito
pull through: recuperarse, railroad tracks: via férrea
sobrevivir ravages: devastar,
chiropractor:
desfigurar
pull over: estacionar en la quiropractico
cuneta ailing: enfermo
back down: recular
fall out with waterways:canal go-lucky disposition:
afortunada
fall through: fracasar, thrive: progresar, crecer
venirse abajo bien pick in escoger

fall through the cracks: turn upside down with walk out together; salir
pasar desapercibido turmoil: confusion juntos?

fall behind: quedarse arás throughout the world walk all over you:
aprovecharse de ti
fall back: retrasarse, spending spree
retirarse (+on): contra con walking into things: no
be sworn: ser investido
el apoyo de mira x dnd va y
in the face of: despite
binge drinkers: borracho walk off in bad temper
fin de semana advantage in the face of:
walk off with money: huir
de ventaja frente a
binge: atracon, juerga con el dinero
hemiciclo: (congreso)
think tank: problem walk by: caminar x
chamber
solving group
walked up to me: se
quebrantarse: break,
daycare: guardería acercó a mi
break down
workaround: solicion bee's knees
sin precedentes: never
alternativa
before seen cobbled: empedrado
deciduous tree: hoja
abstenerse: abstainfrom wobbled: tambalearse
caduca
doing sth
on sbs knee: hundido en
put on hold
abstention la miseria
put up: colgar, hospedar,
internidad: temporariness dandle; saltar sobre
contribuir
rodillas
presidir: preside over
put on: ponerse, fingir,
paper thin: muy delgada
inusitada: unusual
business plan: to convince (lonchas, rebanadas)
investors sede: headquarters, seat
doze off : sobarse
business hours: horas de stunts: truco publicitario
drowsy: soñoliento
apertura
offshore: del mar, de
slips fieldsman: jardinero
business end: punta paraíso fiscal
PROFICIENCY PRACTICE
businesslike:formal hotchpotch: revoltijo
TESTS
business class kill the time
Revered: venerado,
mart: mercado be out of sorts: de mal admirado
humor
waistcoat: chaleco Ploy: plan, strategy
over-heels:
come in fourth:quedar en dalliance: flirteo
exageradamente
cuarto lugar
outlandish: excentrico
disposed:
backdrop: transfondo
manfully: valientemenet
forbears: ser paciente, Hard luck: mala suerte Make a go of sth: succeed
abstenerse de, (in making a living)
That Will be the day!: sth
antepasado
unlikely to happen To be in
penned: encerrado,
Sideswipe: criticaindirecta Put away: ordenar,
escrito con pluma
gyardar en su sitio,
bite sb hands off: atacar?
spellbound: encantado apartar dinero
heaven only knows: dios
strived for effect: Limelight (steal the)
sabe
esforzarse por
Spotlight: foco
your guess is as good as
rapid succession
mine Take a turn: tener una
intricate: complejo oportunidad
chilling: escalofriante
array of emotions Take a turn for the worse:
be under no obligation
ponerse en lo peor
there is no knowing,
be out of bounds to: not
telling, saying:its not Utter disbelief: total
allowed to
possible to know incredulidad
let sb off: excuse sb from
there is no denying: es Sign up: inscribirse
punishment
imposible negarlo
Fill sb with dread: llenarse
walked out on: finalizar
take sbs fancy: atraido de pavor
por to be a blow: apestar
Take your mind off of sth:
I shrink to think: miedo knock up: avisame, preñar dejar de pensar en
me da imaginarlo a alguien
Run low: agotarse,
second to none: knock off: acabar, copier, escasear
insuperable pirarse
Scowling: ceño fruncido
I daren’t think Mark down: bajar nota,
Glower: matar con la
precio
Be way above my head: mirada, fruncido
va mas allá de mi Rack: estante
Waterhole: poza
The mind boggles: Branch out:expandirse
Alighted:e n llamas,
complicado: boggle:
Bump up: incrementar ardiente, bajarse de un
quedarse atonito
vehiculo
The worst is over Drum out: expulsar a
alguien de Deft: habil
Count your blessings: date
A heap of stones: monton Trebled: triple
cuenta de lo Bueno q
tienes d
Warthogs: jabalí: wild
A flight of stairs: tramo de board
Wicked: malvado
A flock of sheep Breezely:
Well I never!: quien lo
despreocupadamente
hubiera imaginado A swarm of insects
Witheringly: intense,
Goodness me! : madre Swamp: pantano humiliatingly:
mia
Schools of fish: bancos de ardientemente
Shrink: encogerse run down: sentirse mal, presently:
estar en decadencia inmediatamente,
Eerily: misteriosamente
actualmente
put sth across: expresar
Smack: abofetear
admittedly: cierto es q
muffled: amortiguado
Sef-indulgence: excesive
attained: conseguir
self-gratification hear a pin drop:
be separate
Ostensibly: aparentement silent majority
stuff and nonsense: cosas
Stove: fogon silence is golden: major
sin sentido
no decir nada
Brew: elaborar
to have a small drop of
hush up: callate
Wrinkle: arruga the hard stuff: alcohol
keep mum about: callate
Thaw: derretirse do your stuff
crying shame: lastima
Goblet: copa, caliz stuffed: de peluche,
regular crybaby: lloron relleno, disecado,
Footstool: taburete abarrotado
cry out for: pedir a gritos
Cunningly: astutamente stuff: empacar
cry off: rajarse, cancelar
Jerk: agarron, tarado stuff your face:
for crying out loud: por el atiborrarse
Prim: puritan, remilgado,
amor de dios!
estirado knock the stuffing out of
cry wolf: que viene el sb: make very weak
Dimple. Hoyuelo
lobo, falsa alarma
Reproach: reproche a tall story: cuento chino
a far cry from: no tiene
Filled to capacity nada q ver con sob story: tragedia

Through no fault of her in full cry: de cerca its a bit like telling stories
own: it wasn’t her fault the story goes that..
waterlogged: inundado
It is not yet know: it to cut a long story short:
concourse: public space
remains to be seen resumiendo
station
whether…
perched: posarse be on a high moment:
Have the opportunity: get
the chance brass band: banda d highs and lows
viento
Rumour has it that: high and mighty
corren rumores de que trust IN
high spot of the evening
go out of your mind get soaked to the skin:
high jump
choparte
blow my mind: Volver
get on your high horse
loco deterred: impedidos
high flier: promotion soon
great minds think alike grew fonder: encariñarse
provide a high chair: trona
one track mind: idea fija soft spot: punto debil
turn your head from side
slip my mind: olvidarse
to side: de u lado a otro
like a Jack in the box: caja lose face: quedar mal break sb's case: dar info
de sorpresas de un caso para solve it
lose ground: less popular
villain of the piece: poke my eye out: sacarme
lose heart: perder
persona responsible del un ojo
esperanza
problema
go off with sth: robar e
lose your grip: perder el
go to pieces: huir con algo
control
desmoronarse
amassed some large bills:
lost your head
a piece of the action: acumular facturas
beneficios o vetnajas de sleep over: pasar noche
question of order:
algo en casa de, darle vueltas a
procedimiento
give sb a piece of his lose track
sorting office: oficina de
mind: speak angrily a
lost cause; causa perdida correos
alguien sobre algo q han
hecho mal lost on me: se me escapa pigeon holes
wicked: malvado, picaro play a losing game: saber burst water pipe: tuberia
q va a salir mal y aun asi rota
nasty piece of work: a
very unpleasant person lo intentas
bundles: manojo, atar,
play a waiting game: dejar fardo
all of a piece: ser parte de
tener el comportamiento pasar el tiempo
haste: apuro, prisa
de lose your cool: la calma
puddle: charco
put sth to the test: how lose your marbles: faltar
good sb sth is esp in cowardice: cobardía
un tornillo
difficult conditions thrust: empujar
lose your nerve
test the waters: ver q yelp of surprise: aullido
piensan lose your rag: los trapos
(loco) clockwork
test case: jurisprudencia,
caso q sienta precedente lose your touch: perderse clock off: fichar salida
de vista, desactualizarse
test drive: conduccion de clock on: entrada
prueba antes d comprar lose the tread of your
clock up: acumular
argument
testing times beat the clock: derrotar al
lose out: perder posicion
test tube: tubo de ensayo reloj
lose your balance: perder
test bed: banco de clock watcher: pendiente
el equilibrio
prueba, ingenieria del reloj
put it to sb: explicartelo,
test card: tv pantalla fuddy duddy: chapado a la
proponerle a alguien
colores antigua
come into effect: entrar
ballpark: baseball stadium hoity toity: snob, estirado
en vigor
between a rock and a big wings: important
trod on my foot: pisarme
hard place: entre la esp people
hey day: most succesful even steven: fair at his mother's knee
time
harum scarum: on his knee
to kow tow to (accept disorganised
as a sort of knee jerk
without question)
higgledy piggledy (in
knee high
bee's knees (someone to different and chaotic
admire direction kind o knees up
des res (very attractive pell mell (in confusion went down on one knee
house
okie dokie (all right) knee deep
fat cat (wealthy
a little stream: peqñ bend the knee
businessman
arroyo
hocus pocus (nonsense over the cracks
kettle of fish
pow wows (conversations paper-weight: pisapapeles
Never cast a clout
argy bargy (arguments (remove an article of paper tiger
clothing) before May is
tittle tattle (gossip out."storm (breaks)
hit the papers

hot shot (well known look like a drowned rat paper thin
entrepreneur drowsy: dormido
be drenched: empapado
wheeler dealer (someone doze off: sobarse
stir a drink: revolver
who does business in an
underhand way fairweather: q slo esta slumber party
cuando tod va bien, para come across
humdrum (boring
el buen tiempo
dream team (ideal come by
tactless: sin tacto
partners come through
walk out together
hubbub (loud noise and come down with
activity walk over you
come along
helter skelter (running at walk into things
great speed come back
walk off in a really bad
household: gente, familiar mood come out

sitting room walk off with all the come up with

money come over
cheerful earful (a good
piece of news walk by look up
double trouble (two walk up look into
problems
walkabout look over
mumbo jumbo (nonsense
walk out without warning, look up to
rag bag: batiburrillo on us
look out for
wham bam (very quickly be the bee's kees
look out over
teenie weenie (very small) wobbly knees
look through run for (president) sprawl out

look after run away with: escapar cedar casket

look into run off with (all the pull through

money)
bring off pull over
run down
bring on (labour) pull in
run away
bring over pull out
run into
bring up pull down
run through
bring out pull over
run after
bring foward get down to
run-in
bring back get around
sovereign country
bring off get away with
aftermath
friend or foe get off
afterlife
wear and tear get through with
aftertaste: gusto
head over heels get on with
drop bhind
bent over backwards getby
drop out
as busy as a bee get on
drop in
flesh and blood get along
drop off
as cunning as a fox go off
drop in on
blow and arrows go out
drop by
shoddy go back
pass away
break away go off: sonar alarma
pass on
break up on go on
pass up
broke-out out of gaol go over
pass over
break of go out
pass away
break open (egg) go back
pass up
break into a house go out
pass out
break down back down
pass round
break way back off
pass through
break down: car, back up
romperse for carriage: vagon??
blow up
run against preset
break-in
break up crave cold, hard cash: efectivo

bring up turmoil hard headed: terco

burn up (neck)? giddy: mareado hard copy: papel

butt in: unsteady: inestable hard court: pista dura

btter up undulating: ondulant hard hearted

call of wallow: dar vueltas sobre hard pressed: en apuros

set a record heartburn: acidez hardware

mortuary heartbeat: latido headlights: faro coche

ill will heartthrob: galán lodge an insurance claim:

alojar
ill mannered heartfelt: sincero
head dress: tocado
ill at ease heartache: tristeza
headwind: viento en
ill imed heartbreak
contra
ill fgotten evildoers
headlines
ill advised wicked: malvado
incarceration: encarcelam
fall back on pounding: paliza, act of
entrants: participantes
hitting
fall behind in
headstart: ventaja
heartland: Corazonnúcleo
fall through
headroom: espacio para
knock off: falso, copia,
fall off la cabeza
copiar, terminar
fall behind headstone: lapida
knock on: envejecer
put off chicken out: acobardarse
knock up: pasar por casa,
put on hold preñar chip in: intervenir, hacer
fondo comun
put on knock out: noquear
clam up: callarse
put up leaned over: agacharse
drag on: hacerse eterno
put in array of
custody battle
put out laser beam: rayo
drew up: redactor,
business hours: 8-5 sluggish: perezoso
acercase (car)
business end impeach: impugnar,
blueprints: Proyecto,
censurar
business like plano
broker: negociar, corridor
quintessential fuss: escandalo
d bolsa
charm fall through: caerse
hard up for cash:
thrive in desesperado
fill in for sb: sustituir, mark down: bajar nota, dog eat dog: cruel,
poner al corriente, rebajar despiadado
completar, rellenar
pick on sb: acosar cream of the crop: be the
fill out forms: rellenar best
pitch in: colaborar
formularios
egg him on: encourage
pull sth off: quitarse,
get around: moverse por
sacar adelante, salir (car) cool as a cucumber: calm
get around to: tener
round off: redondear finger in the pie: be
tiempo para
numeros involved in sth
get by: sobrevivir
stand up for your believes use her noodle: think
goofed off hacer totno more
take after your mum:
/gandul
parecerse ate humble pie: accept
hand in: entregar shame
tick off at sb: tachar,
hand-outs: distribuir, echar la bronca walk on eggsheld: very
limosna, folletos cautious
throw out: tirar, rechazar,
hand up: subir dejar caer take the stuff out for
dinner
stage a hold-up: atraco try out: probar
go and jump in the lake:
iron out: planchar, poner turn in: entregar, irse a la
vete a tomar x saco
en orden, limar asperezas cama
be utter rubbish
jack up prices: subir turn on: volverse en
contra, afrodisiaco i could eat a horse
mark up prices: subir
take down info: im not that deaf: no estoy
jumped all over an
desmontar, anotar, bajar sordo
oportunity
los humos
sell up: vender
be a knock out: impress,
wait on sb: attender,
bite sbs hand off: coger lo
let up: aflojar, amainar esperar
q sea, sin dudar
look back on:recordar wear out: desgastarse
walk over sb: acercase,
look in on: dares una worn out: cansado pasar x encima
Vuelta x
wrap up dither: titubear
look over: repasar, ojeada
write up a contract he who hesitates is lost
look sb up: elevar la vista,
scaredy cat bug: pinchar telefonos
poner en contacto
have a cow your mind is a complete
make out: finger,
blank
descifrar, pasarse x, swim with sharks: estar
escribir en nombrede en peligro run sth past once more:
revisar
squinted: bizquera be a little fishy:
sospechoso
make up for: compensar
be out of your depth: work out the profile: ratified: confirmar
fuera de tu alcance, sin elaborar
would-be: aspirante
hacer pie
cost-cutting: recortes
would-try intento
sell-by date
commensurate with:
would-see: aspirante a
pay off: amortizar, bribe proporcional
ver
overlook; subestirmar refer a patient to a
would-go a ir
hacer vista gorda, specialist
nothing of note: nada
a standing ovation surgery:.consulta
destacado
fill out: a form, rellenar working in the open air:
embattled: asediado
afuera
think up a new idea
engrossed: concentrado
be on about: parlotear
keep down the weeds:
smokescreen: cortina de
matar las malas hierbas i take it you're mr X:
humo
supongo que
see about: encargarse de,
wear a bit thin; no sonar
considerar take it: soportarlo
creible
set in (winter) mistaken identity
curb a crime: acordonar
stand by sb: support lawnmower: cortacesped
prompted: rapido
to have bags of time: a lot take issue over: quedarse
brief (v) informar
of time a cargo, relevar
desert (v) abandonar
time and again: una y otra has at long last
vez consented: accept overshadow: restar
importancia
in good time: con far from the truth: lejos
suficiente tiempo, sin de la realidad backlash: respuesta
tardar negativa
sort out lugagge
time will tell: el tiempo back strike: contraatacar
beam: rayo, viga, barra
dirá
gym backstory: trasnfondo
go through a thin time
ditch: zanja, acequia, back whip: volverse d
behind the times: deshacerse golpe
desfasado
mishandling: mala gestion high profile: notoriedad
hit the big time: tener
misfiring: no arrancar, high brow intelectual
exito
fracasar
keep time: orchestra , ravaged: devastado,
assuage: aliviar, saciar asolado
mantener el tiempo
asset: bien material haven: refugio
move with the times: ir
con, adaptarse talk resume: se retoma… unveiling: inaguracion
paper qualifications come into force: entrar en take your hat off: dar
vigor enhorabuena
talk through his hat: no pull a fast one: tomar el jokes are a bit near the
saber d q hablas pelo bone: fuera de lugar

top hat pension: extra live life in the fast lane: give you the bare bones
excitement, danger esencia, funamento
under your hat: no reveal
info quick off the mark: rapido work your fingers to the
para atacar, reglejos bone
throw your hat in the ring:
become a participant fast buck: hacer dinero hard luck story: mala
facil suerte
I will eat my hat: nothing
will happen im sure at full steam: a toda pushing your luck: tentar
marcha a la suerte
at the drop of a hat:
immediately more haste less speed: struck it very lucky
visteme despacio q tengo
be old hat: nor modern or be born under a lucky star
prisa
exciting
take pot luck:
sky high: altisimo
hand round the hat conformarse con l q hay
the sky is the limit: as
wear several hats: many down on his luck: desafort
mcuh as possible
jobs
try his luck: probar suerte
praise sb to the skies:
be a fad: novedad
alabar all the world's a stage
fad diet: dieta relampago
pie in the sky: quimera pay in easy stages: en
keep current with cómodos plazos
skylight: tragaluz
misappropriate: stage fright: panico
skydive: paracaidismo
malversar escenico
papering over the cracks
have no stain in your stage whisper: susurro
character paper chase: esfuerzo por
work as a stage hand
conseguir un titulo
topple: derumbarse,
stage struck
derrocar paper money billete
stager: ecperto
whiff of scandal: olorcillo bone dry (laundry)
totalmente seco stage (vb): montar,
handed my cards:
manipular
despedir: downsize: make no bones: ir al
surplus to requirements: grano be entittled to: tener
give one month's notice: derecho a
skin and bone piel y
despedir
huesos, muy delgado offset: compensar
as quick as a flash
bone idle vago remainder: resto
quick on the uptake:
bone up on my French: once bitten twice shy: +
rapido
repasar? cautious now
play fast and loose: tomar
bone to pick with bite my head off: echar la
a la ligera
you:areglar cosas, ajustar bronca
cuentas
bitten off more than he crack up: crisis nerviosa, put/get sb’s back up:
can chew partirse de risa annoy sb

another bite at the paper over the cracks: bear up: sobrellevar,
cherry: another chance oculrar porlbemas para q mantenerse fuerte
la situación parezca mejor
bite the dust: morir stammer: tartamudeo
dlo q es
bite the bullet: accept it, bear down on sb: hacer
take a sledgehammer to
tragar lo q venga presion sobre, aplastar
crack a nut: + force than
take issue with sb over needed efforts will bear fruit
sth: desacuerdo con
it fell to sb: le tocó hacer x a heavy cross to bear:
make an issue: un unpleasant situation
settle the bill: pagar
problema
grin and bear it: accept no
sherry: jerez, vino
at issue: siendo discutido complain
have a dry run: ensayo
first issue bear with me
dry as dust: arido
without issue have bearing on the trial:
a dry eye: sin llorar
issue a description don't bear comparison
as dry as a bone
smoke issuing out of the be the very devil
top left high and dry: varado
better the devil you know:
be issued with: provided dry out: secarse, ropa mejor malo conocido...
with
dry sense of humour: the principle of devil take
fair crack of the whip: las witty the hindmost applied
mismas oportunidades de
let stocks run dry give the devil his due
hacer algo
back handed compliment: needs must hen the devil
hard nut to crack:
doble sentido-left drives
problema dficil persona
handed: nada alagador
dificul de entender play the devil's advocate
back number: periodico
crack a bottle: beber speak of the devil
de ayer
crack the whip: mano the devil to pay
backseat driver: pesado
dura
devil is in the detail
backwater: alejado, rural
get cracking: manos a la
obra the devil of a time:
break the back: romperse
mucho tiempo?
la espalda
take a crack at: probar
A bird in the hand is
flat on her back: postrado,
have a crack at: try sth worth two in the bush
tirado
difficult
for tw pins
like the back of your
not be all it's cracked up
hand: sabertelo como la two shakes of a lamb's
to be: no tan Buena como
palma de la mano tail: do sth very fast
decian
two ticks:
there are not two ways descended from apes: quirks of sbs
about it venmos de los monos personality:rarezas

are two of a kind abject misery: miserable, rain down: diluviar

lamentable
two worngs dont make a Adage: provervio
right gamut: gama, escala
complacent: satisfecho d
sandman: el coco garbled account: cifrado, si mismo
confuso
nod abstruse: dificil
futile: inutil
have a musical turn of adamant: firme, terco,
mind belittle: denigrar, insistir
subestimar
indulge intertwined: entrelazado
facetious: gracioso
cat nap factions: smalls groups?
abridged to: abreviado
shuteye The sands of time are
flaging running out: no too much
winks
time
impervious: impermeable,
boldly
inmune burying your head in the
turn in sand: refuse think
incisive: incisivo
unpleasant facts, face the
wind up a clock facts
plausible: creíble
sound asleep build sth on sand:
qualms: escrúpulo,
fast asleep nausea inestable

sleep like a log, like a top precarious position: draw a line in the sand:
establish a limit
wide awake Quaint: pintoresco
sands are
land of the living absconded: fugarse shifting:curcumstances
hypothesizing condone: chanfe continuously
aprobar,consentir as many as the grains of
troubleshooter
equanimity: compostura sand
between a rock and a
hard place erratic course: no inspira pit: hoyo agujero, mina
confianza go dead (connexion)
appoint
eschew: evitar plainclothes: de paisano
local byelaw
incessant: incesante like watching paint dry:
meet approval
inadvertent: involuntario boring
be inclined to do sth
loiter: vaguear carry off: secuestrar, sacar
meet all the needs con exito
lunging across
allowing for his age and carry through: llevar a
he is after all... be no call for sb: no es cabo, ayudar a superar
nesario hacer x
slander carry on: continuar
carry away: arrastrar
(tide)

carry out: realizar,

completar

carry on: llevar encima

carry over: llevar, guardar,

pasar, acumular
vacaciones

whisking away: vadiora,

llevarse rápidamente,
sacudir, agitar

retain: retener, consevar

run into an old flame:

amor antiguo

put of by preensions

appreciation:
agradecimiento

accrued : acumulados

give a boost: dar impulso