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to live from pay check to pay check
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English |
Tener muy poco dinero |
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to live from pillar to post
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English |
Tener muy poco dinero para sobrevivir |
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to live high on the hog
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English |
To have a lot of money |
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to live in cloud cuckoo-land
Nu
MD
Fr
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English |
Living in a place or condition that is fanciful, lacking in reality, impractically utopian |
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to live in clover
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English |
To have a lot of money |
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to live off
F
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English |
Vivir a costa de otros |
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to live on the fat of the land
F
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English |
Vivir muy bien, en la abundancia, riqueza |
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to live within your means
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English |
Ahorrar dinero porque tienes muy poco |
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to lock horns
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English |
To begin to argue or fight. |
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to lock someone away
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English |
encarcelar, recluir en la cárcel, prisión a alguien |
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to lock someone up
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English |
encarcelar, recluir en la cárcel, prisión a alguien |
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to look a fright
Ct
Nu
MD
Fr
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English |
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to look a sight
Nu
MD
Fr
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English |
to be dressed in an untidy way |
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to look a sight
Ct
Nu
MD
Fr
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English |
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to look a wreck
Ct
Nu
MD
Fr
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English |
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to look after number one
Fr
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English |
To selfishly put your own needs and interests before everyone else's |
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to look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth
MD
Fr
|
English |
appear gentle or innocent while typically being the opposite |
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to look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
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Español |
pelo: estar mal peinado |
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to look away
|
English |
To turn one’s gaze away from someone |
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to look down
Ct
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
Bajar los hojos por humildad, modestia |
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to look jaundiced
MD
|
English |
Refers to a sickly yellowish colour of the skin, which is abnormal. |
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to look like a barrel
F
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
to be fat |
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to look like a beached whale
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
For a person —or a pet— to be so fat that their individual features are almost indistinguishable, and movement is severely restricted or impossible without assistance. |
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to look like a clown
F
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
to use too much makeup (Pintarse mucho la cara) |
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to look like a dalmatian
MD
|
English |
To have a lot of freckles or spots/beauty marks/moles. |
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to look like a lobster
MD
|
English |
To have very red, sunburnt skin. |
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to look like a raccoon
MD
|
English |
Have pronounced dark circles. |
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to look like a skeleton
MD
Fr
|
English |
to be thin |
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to look like a string bean
F
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
to be thin |
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to look like death warmed over
MD
Fr
|
English |
To look or feel very ill (Aspecto poco saludable) |
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to look like death warmed up
MD
Fr
|
English |
To look or feel very ill (Aspecto poco saludable) |
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to look like hell
Ct
Nu
MD
Fr
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English |
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to look like rudolph
MD
|
English |
To have a really red nose. |
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to look like something the cat brought in
|
English |
to look very untidy or dirty |
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to look like the wreck of the hesperus
|
English |
Used to describe the appearance of an untidy or bedraggled person |
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to look over
MD
|
English |
Mirar por encima |
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to look sb up and down
Ct
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
Mirar con aire de superioridad |
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to look the picture of health
|
English |
To be in good health, to look very healthy |
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to lose count
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
To miss information about something in a certain moment |
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to lose faith
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
To leave believing that something is going to happen |
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to lose hope
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
To be unable to find hope |
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to lose mind
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
To become crazy or confused |
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to lose one's marbles
|
English |
If someone loses their marbles, they become mentally confused, or no longer behave sensibly or rationally. |
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to lose one’s self-control
Nu
MD
Fr
|
|
To be unable to control one's feelings or actions. Lack restraint.
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to lose track
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
to have/not have information about what is happening or where somebody/something is |
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to lose your bearings
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
to be unable to stop yourself from crying, laughing, etc; to become crazy |
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to lose your strings
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
to become momentarily crazy |
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to make a blue
|
English |
In Australian parlance, it can mean to make a mistake |
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to make a blunder
|
English |
To make a stupid or careless mistake |
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to make a boo-boo
|
English |
To make a silly or trivial mistake |