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21 חלקלק כצלופח
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22 åleglat
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23 a nu şti în ce ape se adapă / scaldă cineva
not to know smb.'s numbernot to have got smb.'s numberto be as slippery as an eel.Română-Engleză dicționar expresii > a nu şti în ce ape se adapă / scaldă cineva
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24 a scăpa printre degete
1. to slip between / through one's fingersto slip from smb.'s graspto be as slippery as an eel. -
25 a-i aluneca printre degete
1. to slip through one's fingers.2. fig. to be as slippery as an eelto slip / to run between one's fingers.Română-Engleză dicționar expresii > a-i aluneca printre degete
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26 suplu / alunecos ca un tipar
as slippery as an eel.Română-Engleză dicționar expresii > suplu / alunecos ca un tipar
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27 sgusciare o essere viscido come un'anguilla
Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > sgusciare o essere viscido come un'anguilla
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28 escurrirse como una anguila
• be as slippery as an eelDiccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > escurrirse como una anguila
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29 ser escurridizo como una anguila
• be as slippery as an eelDiccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > ser escurridizo como una anguila
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30 ser resbaladizo como una anguila
• be as slippery as an eelDiccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > ser resbaladizo como una anguila
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31 chinois
I.n. m.1. Du chinois: 'Gobbledygook', 'double-Dutch', incomprehensible language. Tout ça, c'est du chinois pour moi! I can't understand a blind word he's saying!2. Outsider, stranger.3. Suspicious character. Qui c'est ce chinois là- bas? Who's that geezer over there? Chinois de paravent: 'Dodgy type', 'shifty' character.4. 'Prick', 'cock', penis. Se polir le chinois: To 'have a wank', to masturbate.5. (pl.): 'Tootsies', toes.II.adj.1. 'Cagey', awkward. En affaires, il n'y a pas plus chinois: In business dealings he's as slippery as an eel.2. Difficult and complicated. Fichtre, c'est chinois ce mode d'emploi! I can't make sense of these instructions! -
32 zo glad als een aal
zo glad als een aalVan Dale Handwoordenboek Nederlands-Engels > zo glad als een aal
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33 sikamlós mint az angolna
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35 anguilla
anguilla, ae, f. dim. [anguis, Varr. L. L. 5, § 77 Müll.; but it may be directly con. with Gr. enchelus; v. anguis], an eel.I.Lit.: Muraena anguilla, Linn.; Plin. 9, 21, 38, § 74 al.; Juv. 5, 103.—II.Trop.: anguilla est, elabitur, he is an eel; he slips away, is a slippery fellow, prov. of a sly man, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 56.—III.The hard skin of an eel, used as a whip in schools, Verr. ap. Plin. 9, 23, 39; Isid. Orig. 5, 27. -
36 SLEPPA
* * *I)(slepp; slapp, sluppum; sloppinn), v.1) to slip, glide (sleggjan slapp ór hendi honum); sluppu honum fœtr, his feet slipped;2) to slip away, escape (ef Þórólfr skal s.);3) to slip, fail; ef yðr sleppr at festa hendr á Birni, if you fail to get hold of Bjorn.(-ta, -t), v. to make slip out of one’s hands, let slip; Þorgils hafði sleppt øxinni, Th. had let go of the axe.* * *slepp, slapp, sluppu, slyppi, slyppinn, [A. S. slipan; Engl. slip]:—to slip, slide; sleggjan slapp ( slipped) ór hendi honum, Bs. i. 342; sluppu honum fætr, his feet slipped, Fms. viii. 393; ál svá hálan, at hann sleppr manni, an eel so slippery that it slips out of one’s hands, Stj. 69.2. to slip away, escape; ef Þórólfr skal sleppa, Boll. 342; láta e-t s. hjá sér, Fas. i. 92; hinir hafa refsingar-lausir undan sloppit, N. G. L. i. 123.3. to slip, fail, miss; vera má at fleiri sé sátir á skóginum ef hin fyrsta slyppi, may be there will be more ambushes if the first should fail. Eg. 568; ef yðr sleppr at festa hendr á Birni, if you fail to get hold of Bjorn, Bjarn. 52.
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