mujer fatal

Ex: He creates a type of reverse orientalism peopled by sex-hungry 'dark-age femme fatales' and 'lusty young Barbarians reeking of ale'.

ropa de mujer — women's clothes o clothing

mujer bandera — † striking woman

mujer de la vida euf —

mujer pública — euf prostitute

hacerse mujer — (euf) to reach puberty, become a woman (euph)

hacerse mujer — (euf) to reach puberty, become a woman (euph)

Ex: When I saw what he was up to, I drew back for a punch and hit him so hard on the nose that he fell on his back and lay there for some time, so that his wife stood over him and cried out 'Mercy! You've done my husband in!'.

tiene un inglés fatal — his English is awful o terrible

la obra estuvo fatal — the play was awful o terrible

ese comentario fatal firmó su sentencia — that ill-fated o disastrous comment sealed his sentence

lo pasaron fatal — they had an awful o a terrible time (of it)

cocina fatal — he's an awful o a terrible cook

me encuentro fatal — I feel awful o terrible

está fatal, tendrán que operar — she's in a really bad way, they'll have to operate (colloq)

me caen fatal — I can't stand them (colloq)

está fatal, tendrán que operar — she's in a really bad way, they'll have to operate (colloq)

me caen fatal — I can't stand them (colloq)

Ex: Quite apart from the great toll of unasked questions, any hint of mutual antipathy between enquirer and librarian is fatal to the reference interview.

mujer fácil — Flittchen n

mujer fatal — Femme fatale f

mujer (muy) de su casa — (о́чень) хоро́шая, забо́тливая хозя́йка; домови́тая же́нщина

Ex: Incomplete and anachronistic readings of the records from the 1612 trial for her rape have underpinned an image of Artemisia as, in the older treatments, a flirt and vamp or, in more recent ones, a feminist and resister of male violence.

está casi terminado — it's almost o nearly finished

son ya casi las tres — it's almost o nearly three o'clock

¡huy!, casi me caigo — oops! I almost o nearly fell over

despidieron a la casi totalidad de la plantilla — they sacked virtually o practically the entire staff

ocurre lo mismo en casi todos los países — the same thing happens in virtually o practically all countries

-¿habéis terminado? -casi, casi — "have you finished?" - "just about o very nearly"

• casi nada — almost o virtually nothing, hardly anything

no sabemos casi nada de lo que está ocurriendo — we know almost o virtually nothing about what's going on, we know hardly anything about what's going on

100 dólares..., ¡casi nada! — iró 100 dollars, a mere trifle!

• casi nunca — hardly ever, almost never

• casi siempre — almost always

es casi imposible — it's virtually o almost impossible

¿200? casi nada! — (iró) $200? is that all? (iro)

es casi imposible — it's virtually o almost impossible

¿200? casi nada! — (iró) $200? is that all? (iro)

Ex: Documents rarely exactly match a user's requirements because information can be packaged in almost as many different ways as there are participants in a subject area.

sufrir un accidente — to have o meet with an accident

accidente laboral — = accidente de trabajo

tuvo or sufrió un accidente — he had an accident

por accidente — by chance o coincidence

tuvo or sufrió un accidente — he had an accident

por accidente — by chance o coincidence

Ex: Entries are created merely according to the accident of the appearance of words in titles.