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1 armarse de valor
to pluck up courage* * *(v.) = muster (up) + (the) courage, pluck up + courage, nerve + Reflexivo, gather up + courageEx. Professional library managers must muster the courage to deal with these problems and make their choices.Ex. Left to themselves, children will rarely pluck up courage to visit the library on their own.Ex. Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran are nerving themselves for a confrontation that could turn into a general war if things were to get out of control.Ex. By gathering up courage to face their fears, international contractors operating in China may begin to detect new possibilities of doing business there.* * *(v.) = muster (up) + (the) courage, pluck up + courage, nerve + Reflexivo, gather up + courageEx: Professional library managers must muster the courage to deal with these problems and make their choices.
Ex: Left to themselves, children will rarely pluck up courage to visit the library on their own.Ex: Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran are nerving themselves for a confrontation that could turn into a general war if things were to get out of control.Ex: By gathering up courage to face their fears, international contractors operating in China may begin to detect new possibilities of doing business there. -
2 descontrolarse
pron.v.1 to lose control.2 to blow one's top, to go up the wall (enojarse).3 to go out of control, to run wild.4 to freak out, to lose control.* * *1 (persona) to lose control; (avión etc) to go out of control* * *VPR1) (=perder control) to get out of control, go wild2) * (=enojarse) to blow one's top *, go up the wall ** * *verbo pronominal to get out of control* * *= run + wild, get out of + control, go + wild, run + rampant.Ex. Fairy tales not abased by the 'culture industry' might save us from our present state of barbarism resulting from a capitalism run wild.Ex. Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran are nerving themselves for a confrontation that could turn into a general war if things were to get out of control.Ex. Our imagination went wild, because we didn't want death to be the end, we wanted to keep on living on familiar grounds, and most of all, we didn't want to be alone.Ex. While inflation was running rampant during the Trudeau years, that was the pattern in most countries in the world including the USA.* * *verbo pronominal to get out of control* * *= run + wild, get out of + control, go + wild, run + rampant.Ex: Fairy tales not abased by the 'culture industry' might save us from our present state of barbarism resulting from a capitalism run wild.
Ex: Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran are nerving themselves for a confrontation that could turn into a general war if things were to get out of control.Ex: Our imagination went wild, because we didn't want death to be the end, we wanted to keep on living on familiar grounds, and most of all, we didn't want to be alone.Ex: While inflation was running rampant during the Trudeau years, that was the pattern in most countries in the world including the USA.* * *descontrolarse [A1 ]to get out of control o out of hand* * *
descontrolarse ( conjugate descontrolarse) verbo pronominal
to get out of control
■descontrolarse verbo reflexivo to lose control
' descontrolarse' also found in these entries:
English:
control
- riot
* * *vpr1. [automóvil, inflación] to go out of control2. [persona] to lose control;Fam [desmadrarse] to go wild, to go over the top* * *v/r get out of control; ( enojarse) lose control* * *: to get out of control, to be out of hand
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