multiple-engine

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un chorro de insultos — a stream o string of insults

¡qué chorro tiene! — he's so jammy! **

a chorro — <motor/avión> jet (before n)

a chorros: la sangre salía a chorros blood poured o gushed out; sudaba a chorros he was sweating buckets (colloq); como los chorros del oro — (Esp fam) as clean o bright as a new pin

tiene chorros de dinero — he's got loads of money (colloq)

a chorro — <motor/avión> jet (before n)

a chorros: la sangre salía a chorros blood poured o gushed out; sudaba a chorros he was sweating buckets (colloq); como los chorros del oro — (Esp fam) as clean o bright as a new pin

tiene chorros de dinero — he's got loads of money (colloq)

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la differenza è minima — the difference is minimal o very small o slight, there's hardly any difference

il prezzo minimo è 100 euro — the lowest o minimum price is 100 euros

ridurre una frazione ai minimi termini Mat — to reduce a fraction to its lowest terms

queste scarpe sono ridotte ai minimi termini — (fig : molto consumate) these shoes are completely worn out

non ne ho la (benché) -a idea — I have no idea what(so)ever, I haven't the least o faintest o slightest idea

nei -i dettagli — in great o minute detail

tenere, ridurre al minimo — to keep, reduce to a o to the minimum

girare al minimo — [ motore] to idle

motore che tiene bene il minimo — engine that ticks over BE o idles well

costerà come minimo 20 euro — it will cost a minimum of o at least 20 euros

• escribir a máquina — to type

• escrito a máquina — typed, typewritten

• hecho a máquina — machine-made

• pasar algo a máquina — to type sth (up)

máquina de bolas — * pinball machine

máquina de tabaco — * cigarette machine

máquina excavadora — mechanical digger, steam shovel (EEUU)

máquina quitanieves — snowplough, snowplow (EEUU)

máquina registradora — LAm cash register

máquina tragaperras — fruit machine, one-armed bandit; (Com) vending machine

a toda máquina — at top speed, flat out (colloq)

a toda máquina — at top speed, flat out (colloq)

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no tengo palabras o me faltan palabras para expresar lo que siento — I haven't got the o there aren't words to express how I feel, words fail to express how I feel

sin decir o chistar * palabra — without a word

• con buenas palabras, me lo dijo con muy buenas palabras — he told me as cool as you like *

• medias palabras — hints

• en una palabra — in a word

palabras cruzadas — LAm (=crucigrama) crossword sing

palabras gruesas — crude language sing

palabras mayores — † offensive language sing

ser palabras mayores (=ser importante) —

tiene el don de la palabra, es de palabra fácil — he has a way with words, he has the gift of the gab *

• de palabra, he pecado solo de palabra — I've sinned in word only

• dirigir la palabra a algn, hace tiempo que no me dirige la palabra — he hasn't spoken to me for a long time

• ceder la palabra a algn, conceder la palabra a algn — to give sb the floor, invite sb to speak

• pedir la palabra — to ask for the floor, ask to be allowed to speak

• tener la palabra — to have the floor

• tomar la palabra — to take the floor, speak

• hacer uso de la palabra — to take the floor, speak

palabra que yo no tengo nada que ver — * I've got nothing to do with it, (I) promise!

-¿de verdad que no sabías nada? -¡palabra! o hum ¡palabrita del Niño Jesús! — "you really didn't know anything?" - "cross my heart and hope to die!"

• bajo palabra — (Mil) on parole

• dar o empeñar su palabra — to give one's word

• faltar a su palabra — to go back on o break one's word

palabra de honor — word of honour, word of honor (EEUU)

yo no sabía ni una palabra del asunto — I didn't know a thing o anything about it

eso ya son palabras mayores — (refiriéndose - a insulto, acusación) those are strong words; (- a propuesta excesiva) that's taking things too far

quitarle las palabras de la boca a alguien — to take the words right out of somebody's mouth

tener la última palabra — to have the final say

tener unas palabras con alguien — to have words with somebody (colloq)

nunca falta a su palabra — he never breaks o goes back on his word

se lo devolví palabra! — I gave it back to her, honest! (colloq)

cobrarle la palabra a alguien — (Chi fam) to hold somebody to his/her word (colloq)

dejar a alguien con la palabra en la boca: me dejó con la palabra en la boca — ( me interrumpió) he cut me off in mid-sentence; ( no me dejó hablar) he didn't give me a chance to open my mouth

tener/tomar la palabra — to have/to take the floor (frml)

ceder (le) la palabra a alguien — to give the floor to somebody (frml), to call upon somebody to speak