I was ill yesterday

• ni un(a) mal(a)..., no hay ni un mal bar para tomar algo — there isn't a single little bar where we can get a drink

un olor muy malo — a bad o nasty smell

tienes muy mala cara — you look awful o really ill

es un animal malo de domesticar — it's a hard o difficult animal to tame

es muy malo de vencer — he's very hard o difficult to beat

el malo — (Rel) the Evil One, the Devil

tiene mala ortografía — her spelling is bad o poor

soy muy mala para los números — I'm terrible o very bad with figures

lo malo es que... — the thing o trouble is that...

estar de malas — ( de mal humor) (fam) to be in a bad mood; ( desafortunado) (esp AmL) to be unlucky

llegas en mal momento — you've come at an awkward o a bad moment

hace tan malo — (Esp) it's such horrible weather

el pescado/queso está malo — the fish/cheese has gone bad, that fish/cheese is off (BrE)

el pobre está malito — the poor thing's not very well (colloq)

estoy mala — it's that time of the month (colloq & euph)

es muy malo de convencer — he's very difficult o hard to persuade

qué malo eres con tu hermano! — you're really horrible o nasty to your brother

no seas mala, préstamelo — don't be mean o rotten, lend it to me (colloq)

una mujer mala — a wicked o an evil woman

a la mala — (Chi fam)

se lo quitaron a la mala — they did him out of it (colloq)

pasó la cámara a la mala — she sneaked the camera through (colloq)

no había ni una mala silla para sentarse — there wasn't a single damn chair to sit on (colloq)

tiene mala ortografía — her spelling is bad o poor

soy muy mala para los números — I'm terrible o very bad with figures

lo malo es que... — the thing o trouble is that...

estar de malas — ( de mal humor) (fam) to be in a bad mood; ( desafortunado) (esp AmL) to be unlucky

llegas en mal momento — you've come at an awkward o a bad moment

hace tan malo — (Esp) it's such horrible weather

el pescado/queso está malo — the fish/cheese has gone bad, that fish/cheese is off (BrE)

el pobre está malito — the poor thing's not very well (colloq)

estoy mala — it's that time of the month (colloq & euph)

es muy malo de convencer — he's very difficult o hard to persuade

qué malo eres con tu hermano! — you're really horrible o nasty to your brother

no seas mala, préstamelo — don't be mean o rotten, lend it to me (colloq)

una mujer mala — a wicked o an evil woman

a la mala — (Chi fam)

se lo quitaron a la mala — they did him out of it (colloq)

pasó la cámara a la mala — she sneaked the camera through (colloq)

no había ni una mala silla para sentarse — there wasn't a single damn chair to sit on (colloq)

Ex: The author offers an interpretation of why in professional wrestling the bad guy is often victorious, by whatever means necessary including foul play.

Ex: I'm not saying that it is bad, but it is a real difference of interest between the needs and purposes of research libraries and the public libraries, and I would also throw in the school and almost certainly junior college libraries.

ahora no bebo tanta leche — I don't drink so o as much milk now

• tanto... como — [en singular] as much... as; [en plural] as many... as

• tanto gusto — how do you do?, pleased to meet you

• tanto como — [en singular] as much as; [en plural] as many as

• es uno de tantos — he's nothing special

nació en el mil novecientos cuarenta y tantos — she was born in nineteen forty-something o some time in the forties

las tantas (de la madrugada o de la noche) —

el tren llegó a las tantas — the train arrived really late o in the middle of the night

• entre tanto — meanwhile

• mientras tanto — meanwhile

• no es para tanto — [al quejarse] it's not as bad as all that; [al enfadarse] there's no need to get like that about it

• por lo tanto — so, therefore

ya no vamos tanto al cine — we don't go to the cinema so o as much any more

ahora no la veo tanto — I don't see so o as much of her now, I don't see her so often now

• tanto como, él gasta tanto como yo — he spends as much as I do o as me

• tanto es así que — so much so that

• tanto como, es difícil, pero tanto como eso no creo — it's difficult, but not that difficult

• es tanto más difícil — it is all the more difficult

• tanto mejor — so much the better

• tanto peor — so much the worse

tanto peor para ti — it's your loss o that's just too bad

• en tanto — as (being)

• en tanto que — (=mientras que) while; (=como) as

¿qué tanto será? — LAm how much (is it)?

• otro tanto, las máquinas costaron otro tanto — the machines cost as much again o the same again

• apuntar los tantos — to keep score

• mantener a algn al tanto de algo — to keep sb informed about sth

• poner a algn al tanto de algo — to put sb in the picture about sth

y si no te gusta, tanto peor para ti — and if you don't like it, too bad o (colloq) tough!

no es tan difícil — it's not that difficult

ya no salimos tanto — nowadays we don't go out so often o so much

sale tanto como tú — he goes out as much o as often as you do

tanto/tantos... como as much/as many...as; sufro tanto como ella I suffer as much as she does; no hubo tantos turistas como el año pasado there weren't been as many o so many tourists as last year; tengo tanta suerte como tú — I'm as lucky as you are

tenía setenta y tantos años — he was seventy something, he was seventy-odd (colloq)

ni tanto ni tan calvo or tan poco — there's no need to go that far

no ser para tanto — (fam)

duele, pero no es para tanto — it hurts, but it's not that bad

tanto tienes tanto vales — you are what you own

hasta tanto + subj — (frml)

al tanto: me puso al tanto she put me in the picture; mantenerse al tanto de to keep up to date with; te mantendré al tanto I'll keep you informed; estar al tanto (pendiente, alerta) to be on the ball (colloq); ya está al tanto de lo ocurrido he already knows what's happened; un tanto triste — somewhat o rather o a little sad

y si no te gusta, tanto peor para ti — and if you don't like it, too bad o (colloq) tough!

no es tan difícil — it's not that difficult

ya no salimos tanto — nowadays we don't go out so often o so much

sale tanto como tú — he goes out as much o as often as you do

tanto/tantos... como as much/as many...as; sufro tanto como ella I suffer as much as she does; no hubo tantos turistas como el año pasado there weren't been as many o so many tourists as last year; tengo tanta suerte como tú — I'm as lucky as you are

tenía setenta y tantos años — he was seventy something, he was seventy-odd (colloq)

ni tanto ni tan calvo or tan poco — there's no need to go that far

no ser para tanto — (fam)

duele, pero no es para tanto — it hurts, but it's not that bad

tanto tienes tanto vales — you are what you own

hasta tanto + subj — (frml)

al tanto: me puso al tanto she put me in the picture; mantenerse al tanto de to keep up to date with; te mantendré al tanto I'll keep you informed; estar al tanto (pendiente, alerta) to be on the ball (colloq); ya está al tanto de lo ocurrido he already knows what's happened; un tanto triste — somewhat o rather o a little sad

Ex: It is rather a pity that book reviewers tend to ignore this very popular genre so much.

Ex: Kristen Taylor leads Carolina with three goals and an assist.