digging-up

Ex: Many of these services used to make information available to the individual at his workplace.

Ex: The department has undertaken studies of dinosaurs from material excavated on the Victorian coastline.

Ex: The article ' Digging deep for treasure' reports that many companies see data mining as a data warehouse's most important role, yet they have still not upgraded their IT architectures to include data warehousing.

Ex: It was a huge space with hundreds of workers, some digging ditches, some mixing cement, some laying bricks and one chiseling a piece of marble into a statue.

Ex: The factory worker compensates for his noisy and dirty work environment by digging his allotment.

Ex: After a string of failed robbery attempts including a purse snatching that goes terribly wrong, the two inept protagonists turn to gold digging.

Ex: After a string of failed robbery attempts including a purse snatching that goes terribly wrong, the two inept protagonists turn to gold digging.

Ex: The article ' Digging deep for treasure' reports that many companies see data mining as a data warehouse's most important role, yet they have still not upgraded their IT architectures to include data warehousing.

de oro — gold antes de s, golden frec liter

oro en barras — gold bars pl, bullion

andar cargado al oro — (Chi fam) to be loaded (colloq)

guardar/tener algo como oro en polvo (AmL) or (Esp) en paño — to treasure something (as if it were gold (AmE) o (BrE) gold dust)

ni por todo el oro del mundo — not for all the tea in China (colloq)

prometer el oro y el moro — to promise the earth

andar cargado al oro — (Chi fam) to be loaded (colloq)

guardar/tener algo como oro en polvo (AmL) or (Esp) en paño — to treasure something (as if it were gold (AmE) o (BrE) gold dust)

ni por todo el oro del mundo — not for all the tea in China (colloq)

prometer el oro y el moro — to promise the earth

Ex: In a thesaurus on dentistry, for example, the term gold will be an NT under FILLING MATERIALS; it would make little sense to create a 'metals' or 'precious metals' hierarchy.

parcela de poder — [político] power base; [de influencia] sphere of influence

Ex: The factory worker compensates for his noisy and dirty work environment by digging his allotment.

Ex: Just as Ivan finds that by taking pleasure in the laying of bricks as his day's work, he makes survival possible and beats Stalin and his jailors at heir own game.

Ex: After a string of failed robbery attempts including a purse snatching that goes terribly wrong, the two inept protagonists turn to gold digging.

Ex: Visitors would be surprised by the loud creaking and groaning of the presses as the timbers gave and rubbed against each other.

Ex: What the presidency needs is a job description; not one carved in a tablet of stone and certainly not one which would form all future presidents in the same sanitised mould.

pala quitanieves — snowplough, snowplow (EEUU)

pala topadora — Arg bulldozer

¡choca la pala! — shake on it! *

Ex: Racks for this purpose were fixed below the ceiling of the warehouse or other drying room and doublings of one or two dozen sheets were lifted on to them two at a time with a wooden peel, a tool similar to the peel with which bakers used to load and unload their ovens = Con este propósito se colocaban estantes por debajo del techo del almacén u otro tipo de secadero y los paquetes de folios impresos a dos caras de una o dos docenas de hojas se ponían sobre ellos de dos en dos con una pala de madera, una herramienta similar a la pala que usaban los panaderos para llenar y vaciar sus hornos.

se nos plantó delante y no nos dejaba ver — he planted o plonked * himself in front of us so we couldn't see

se plantó aquí con todas sus maletas — he planted o plonked * himself here with all his suitcases

en tres horas se plantó en Sevilla — he got to o made it to Seville in three hours

Ex: Bloomington has a well-used circulating periodicals collection and library users responded enthusiastically to InfoTrac2, although staff baulked at the $2,500 annual cost.

pasar un trapo por — [+ suelo] to give a wipe over o down; [+ muebles] to dust

trapo de cocina — [para secar los platos] tea towel, dish towel (EEUU); [para limpiar] dish cloth

trapo del polvo — duster, dust cloth (EEUU)

como o hecho un trapo * —

dejar a algn como un trapo — * to tear sb to shreds *

estar como un trapo — * to be like a limp rag *

poner a algn como un trapo — * to lay into sb *, slag sb off **

hecho un trapo * —

iban a todo trapo — they were going at full speed o flat out *

en la cena sacaron los trapos sucios (a relucir o Esp a la luz) — everyone at the dinner party washed their dirty linen in public

a todo trapo — ( sin ahorrar) (AmS fam) with no expense spared

dejar a alguien hecho un trapo — (fam) to tear somebody to shreds (colloq)

sacar los trapos sucios al sol or a relucir (fam) — to reveal personal secrets (o inside information etc)

soltar el trapo — (fam) to burst into tears

a todo trapo — ( sin ahorrar) (AmS fam) with no expense spared

dejar a alguien hecho un trapo — (fam) to tear somebody to shreds (colloq)

sacar los trapos sucios al sol or a relucir (fam) — to reveal personal secrets (o inside information etc)

soltar el trapo — (fam) to burst into tears

Ex: But edition binding in leather was at least as early as edition binding in cloth.