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to be dressed to kill
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English |
intentionally wearing clothes that attract sexual attention and admiration/wearing clothes that are intended to make people notice you |
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to be dressed up in one’s sunday’s best
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English |
to dress to the nines, to dress in one’s best bib and tucker, to get into one’s glad rags |
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to be dressed up like a dog’s dinner
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English |
wearing clothes which make you look silly when you have tried to dress for a formal occasion |
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to be drop-dead gorgeous
MD
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English |
to be stuningly attractive |
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to be drunk as a skunk
|
English |
Estar borracho, ebrio |
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to be drunk as a wheelbarrow
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English |
(old-fashioned slang)
To be very drunk. |
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to be due
|
English |
To be pregnant. |
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to be dumb
|
English |
Ser tonto o una tonteria |
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to be easy on the eye
MD
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English |
to be handsome/beautiful |
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to be eating for two
MD
|
English |
To be pregnant. |
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to be economical with the truth
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English |
To only tell someone part of the truth, often used when saying indirectly that someone is lying. |
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to be emotionally withdrawn
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
Emotionally unresponsive and detached |
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to be ensared
MD
|
English |
Caer en las redes |
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to be evasive
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
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to be expecting
Ct
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
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to be expecting a happy event
|
English |
To be pregnant. |
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to be extortionate
|
English |
Ser muy caro |
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to be fading away
MD
|
English |
to be growing weaker and thinner and to be likely to die soon |
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to be fading fast
MD
|
English |
to be growing weaker and thinner and to be likely to die soon |
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to be famished
|
English |
Tener [alguien] mucha hambre |
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to be fat as a fool
|
English |
Estar gordo |
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to be fightened to death
|
English |
To be very scared or frightened. |
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to be filthy rich
|
English |
To have a lot of money |
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to be fit and trim
|
English |
Estar bien proporcionado /To be well proportioned |
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to be fit as a fiddle
|
English |
To be very healthy and strong |
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to be fit as a flea
|
English |
to be very healthy and strong |
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to be flush with cash
|
English |
To have a lot of money |
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to be fooled
MD
|
English |
Caer como un chorlito |
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to be fooled
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
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to be foul-mouthed
|
English |
someone who is foul-mouthed swears a lot |
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to be free with someone’s money
F
|
English |
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to be frighten (someone or an animal) to death
F
|
English |
1. Lit. to frighten a living creature badly enough to cause death 2. Fig. to frighten someone severely |
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to be frightened to death
F
|
English |
To be very scared or frightened |
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to be from the shallow end of the gene pool
|
English |
To be stupid, to have little intelligence. |
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to be frozen with fear
|
English |
To be so afraid, shocked, etc. that you cannot move |
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to be frozen with fright
|
English |
to be so afraid, shocked, etc. that you cannot move |
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to be frozen with terror
|
English |
To be so afraid, shocked, etc. That you cannot move |
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to be full of oneself
Ct
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
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to be funds
|
English |
To have a lot of money |
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to be furious
F
Ct
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
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to be gangling
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
Having a spindling or awkwardly long growth (Source: Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary) |
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to be gay
Nu
Fr
|
English |
Ser homosexual |
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to be getting on
MD
Fr
|
English |
to be getting old |
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to be gifted
|
English |
Ser muy inteligente en general o en una materia concreta |
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to be gormless
|
English |
Una persona estúpida que tarda en comprender |
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to be green about the gills
|
English |
to look ill and pale |
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to be gunning for
|
English |
to express disapproval of someone |
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to be hale and hearty
|
English |
To be healthy and strong |
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to be hale and hearty
Ct
Nu
MD
Fr
|
English |
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to be ham-fisted
|
English |
lacking dexterity or elegance; clumsy, inept; lacking physical movement skills |