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1 old wives' tale
a superstitious and misleading story.خُرافَة عَجائِز -
2 бабьи сплетни
General subject: old wives' fable, old wives' story, old wives' tale, old wives' tales -
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4 cuento
m.1 tale.cuento de hadas fairy talecuento popular folk tale2 short story.3 story, lie (informal) (mentira, exageración).cuento chino tall story, whopperpres.indicat.1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: contar.* * *1 (relato) story, tale2 LITERATURA short story\¿a cuento de qué? familiar why?, what for?dejarse de cuentos familiar (ir al grano) to get to the point 2 (decir mentiras) to stop telling fibsir con el cuento a alguien to go and tell somebodyno hagas como el cuento de la lechera figurado don't count your chickens before they are hatchedtener mucho cuento familiar to make a lot of fusstraer algo a cuento figurado to bring something upvenir a cuento to be pertinentcuento chino tall storycuento de hadas fairy tale* * *noun m.story, tale* * *ISM1) (=historia corta) short story; [para niños] story, taleel cuento de Blancanieves — the tale o story of Snow White
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de cuento, un héroe de cuento — a storybook o fairytale hero•
ir con el cuento, en seguida le fue con el cuento a la maestra — he went straight off and told the teacherel cuento de la lechera —
2) * (=mentira)no le duele nada, no es nada más que cuento — it doesn't hurt at all, he's just putting it on
todo eso es puro cuento para no ir al colegio — he just made it all up because he doesn't want to go to school
¡no me cuentes cuentos!, ¡no me vengas con cuentos!, ¡déjate de cuentos! — don't give me that! *
eso se me hace cuento — Cono Sur * I don't believe that for a minute, come off it! *
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tener cuento, tu hermanito tiene mucho cuento — your little brother is a big fibber *cuento chino — tall story, cock-and-bull story *
¡no me vengas con cuentos chinos! — don't give me that (rubbish)! *
el cuento del tío — And, Cono Sur confidence trick, confidence game ( EEUU)
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¿a cuento de qué?, ¿a cuento de qué sacas ese tema ahora? — what are you bringing that up for now?•
traer algo a cuento — to bring sth up•
venir a cuento, eso no viene a cuento — that's irrelevant, that doesn't come into it, that has nothing to do with ittodo esto viene a cuento de lo que acaba de pasar — this all has some bearing on what has just happened
4) frm (=cómputo)IISM [de bastón] point, tip* * *I1)a) ( narración corta) short story; ( para niños) story, taleel cuento de Cenicienta — the tale o story of Cinderella
aplícate el cuento — (fam) take note
cuento de nunca acabar: esto es el cuento de nunca acabar it just never ends, it just goes on and on; traer algo a cuento to bring something up; venir a cuento: eso no viene a cuento that doesn't come into it; sin venir a cuento — for no reason at all
b) ( chiste) joke, story2)a) (fam) ( chisme)comer cuentos — (Ven fam) to fall for anything
b) (fam) (mentira, excusa) story (colloq)hacerle al cuento — (Méx fam) to pretend
c) (fam) ( exageración)3) ( número)IIsin cuento — countless, innumerable
* * *= story, story book [storybook], tale, yarn, nursery story, storie.Nota: Forma arcaica de "story".Ex. There were lessons in this story which appear to have been ignored but remain valid for the future.Ex. These he bound up in three volumes, and on the fly leaf of the first volume wrote 'I have always retained a kind of affection for little story books, as they recall muy early days'.Ex. 'I only wanted to write an interesting tale,' he will say, ignoring that the interest of a story almost always comes from seeing the human will in action -- against chaos or against order.Ex. Every teacher, I suppose, has his own collection of favorite yarns based on personal experiences.Ex. The child who has the advantage of being brought up enriched by hearing stories and reading books will have the opportunity to air his knowledge about the characters in nursery stories.Ex. One of these collectors was a Captain Cox, stone mason of Coventry, a person with 'great oversight... in matters of storie'.----* aplicársele el cuento a Alguien = cap + fit.* contar un cuento = tell + story.* cuenta-cuentos = storyteller [story-teller], storytelling [story-telling].* cuento chino = tall tale, tall story.* cuento de hadas = fairy story, fairy tale [fairytale].* cuento de viejas = old wives' tale.* cuento escrito = written story.* cuento infantil = picture book.* cuento popular = folk tale, folktale [folk tale].* hora del cuento = story hour [storyhour], storytelling [story-telling], storytime [story time].* lectura de cuentos = story reading.* narración de cuentos = storytelling [story-telling].* narrador de cuentos = storyteller [story-teller], story teller.* que no viene a cuento = off-topic.* rincón del cuento, el = storycorner, the.* ¡se te acabó el cuento! = the jig's up!.* sin venir a cuento = out of the blue, like a bolt out of the blue, like a bolt from the blue, for no reason, for no specific reason, for no particular reason, for no good reason.* urdir un cuento = weave + a tale.* vivir del cuento = live off + the fat of the land.* * *I1)a) ( narración corta) short story; ( para niños) story, taleel cuento de Cenicienta — the tale o story of Cinderella
aplícate el cuento — (fam) take note
cuento de nunca acabar: esto es el cuento de nunca acabar it just never ends, it just goes on and on; traer algo a cuento to bring something up; venir a cuento: eso no viene a cuento that doesn't come into it; sin venir a cuento — for no reason at all
b) ( chiste) joke, story2)a) (fam) ( chisme)comer cuentos — (Ven fam) to fall for anything
b) (fam) (mentira, excusa) story (colloq)hacerle al cuento — (Méx fam) to pretend
c) (fam) ( exageración)3) ( número)IIsin cuento — countless, innumerable
* * *= story, story book [storybook], tale, yarn, nursery story, storie.Nota: Forma arcaica de "story".Ex: There were lessons in this story which appear to have been ignored but remain valid for the future.
Ex: These he bound up in three volumes, and on the fly leaf of the first volume wrote 'I have always retained a kind of affection for little story books, as they recall muy early days'.Ex: 'I only wanted to write an interesting tale,' he will say, ignoring that the interest of a story almost always comes from seeing the human will in action -- against chaos or against order.Ex: Every teacher, I suppose, has his own collection of favorite yarns based on personal experiences.Ex: The child who has the advantage of being brought up enriched by hearing stories and reading books will have the opportunity to air his knowledge about the characters in nursery stories.Ex: One of these collectors was a Captain Cox, stone mason of Coventry, a person with 'great oversight... in matters of storie'.* aplicársele el cuento a Alguien = cap + fit.* contar un cuento = tell + story.* cuenta-cuentos = storyteller [story-teller], storytelling [story-telling].* cuento chino = tall tale, tall story.* cuento de hadas = fairy story, fairy tale [fairytale].* cuento de viejas = old wives' tale.* cuento escrito = written story.* cuento infantil = picture book.* cuento popular = folk tale, folktale [folk tale].* hora del cuento = story hour [storyhour], storytelling [story-telling], storytime [story time].* lectura de cuentos = story reading.* narración de cuentos = storytelling [story-telling].* narrador de cuentos = storyteller [story-teller], story teller.* que no viene a cuento = off-topic.* rincón del cuento, el = storycorner, the.* ¡se te acabó el cuento! = the jig's up!.* sin venir a cuento = out of the blue, like a bolt out of the blue, like a bolt from the blue, for no reason, for no specific reason, for no particular reason, for no good reason.* urdir un cuento = weave + a tale.* vivir del cuento = live off + the fat of the land.* * *A1 (narración corta) short story; (para niños) story, taleescritor de cuentos a short-story writerlibro de cuentos book of short storiesel cuento de Caperucita Roja the tale o story of Little Red Riding Hoodcuéntame un cuento tell me a storyaplícate el cuento ( fam); take notecontar el cuento: un minuto más y no habría contado el cuento one minute more and I wouldn't have been here o have lived to tell the tale ( colloq)el cuento de nunca acabar: ¿otra vez nos vamos a mudar? esto es el cuento de nunca acabar we're going to move again? this is like a neverending story o there seems to be no end to thistraer algo a cuento to bring sth upvenir a cuento: no saques a relucir cosas que no vienen a cuento don't dredge up things that have nothing to do with this o which have no bearing on this o which are irrelevantsin venir a cuento for no reason at all2 (chiste) joke, story¿sabes el cuento del elefante que …? do you know the joke o ( colloq) the one about the elephant that …?Compuestos:short storyfairy story, fairy taleB1 ( fam)(chisme): se enteró y le fue con el cuento al profesor she found out and ran off to tell the teacher ( colloq)siempre anda con cuentos sobre todo el mundo she's always gossiping about everybodycomer cuentos ( Ven fam): ¡tú sí que comes cuentos! you're so gullible! o you'd believe anything! o ( colloq) you'd fall for anything!no me vengas con cuentos I'm not interested in excuses o stories3 ( fam)(exageración): todos esos lloros son puro cuento para que te perdone all that crying is just put on to get me to forgive you¡qué vas a estar enfermo!, ¡tú lo que tienes es mucho cuento! you're not sick, you're just putting it on! ( colloq), you're not sick, stop fibbing! ( colloq)Compuestos:( fam):eso de que se va a casar es un cuento chino all that stuff about getting married is a load of baloney o ( AmE) bull o ( BrE) rubbish ( colloq)yo no soy tan ingenuo, así que no me vengas con cuentos chinos I'm not as gullible as you think, so don't give me your cock-and-bull story ( colloq)me quiso hacer el cuento del tío y no me dejé he tried to con me o pull a fast one on me but I didn't fall for it ( colloq)( fam); old wives' taleC(número): sin cuento countless, innumerable* * *
Del verbo contar: ( conjugate contar)
cuento es:
1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo
Multiple Entries:
contar
cuento
contar ( conjugate contar) verbo transitivo
1 ‹dinero/votos/días› to count;
y eso sin cuento las horas extras and that's without including overtime;
lo cuento entre mis amigos I consider him (to be) one of my friends
2 ‹cuento/chiste/secreto› to tell;
es muy largo de cuento it's a long story;
¿qué cuentas (de nuevo)? (fam) how're things? (colloq)
verbo intransitivo
1 ( en general) to count;
¿este trabajo cuenta para la nota final? does this piece of work count toward(s) the final grade?;
ella no cuenta para nada what she says (o thinks etc) doesn't count for anything
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◊ cuento contigo para la fiesta I'm counting o relying on you being at the party;
sin cuento con que … without taking into account that …
contarse verbo pronominala) (frml) ( estar incluido):
su novela se cuenta entre las mejores his novel is among the bestb)◊ ¿qué te cuentas? how's it going? (colloq)
cuento sustantivo masculino
( para niños) story, tale;
cuento de hadas fairy story, fairy tale;
venir a cuento: eso no viene a cuento that doesn't come into it;
sin venir a cuento for no reason at all
◊ no me vengas con cuentos I'm not interested in your excuses o storiesd) (fam) ( exageración):
eso es un cuento chino what a load of baloney;
el cuento del tío a con trick
contar
I verbo transitivo
1 (un suceso, una historia) to tell
2 (numerar) to count
II verbo intransitivo to count
♦ Locuciones: contar con, (confiar en) to count on
(constar de) to have
cuento sustantivo masculino
1 story
2 Lit short story
contar un cuento, to tell a story
cuento de hadas, fairy tale
3 (embuste) lie: ¡déjate de cuentos!, get on with it!
4 (cotilleo, acusación) ya le fue con el cuento a la suegra, she ran off to tell the tale to her mother-in-law
5 cuento chino, tall story
♦ Locuciones: figurado eso no viene a cuento, that's beside the point
vivir del cuento, to live off other people
' cuento' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
colorín
- gratuitamente
- historia
- historieta
- modular
- moraleja
- novela
- si
- tal
- alargar
- aquél
- chabacano
- chiste
- colar
- contar
- inventar
- relato
- tragar
- venir
English:
bank on
- cock and bull story
- expect
- fairy story
- fairy tale
- horror story
- lurid
- moral
- number
- racy
- relate
- run
- spin out
- story
- tale
- tall story
- tell
- unfold
- yarn
- act
- eye
- fairy
- old
- short
- tall
- way
- yet
* * *♦ nm1. [narración] short story;[fábula] tale;un libro de cuentos a storybook;contar un cuento to tell a story;venir a cuento to be relevant;sin venir a cuento for no reason at all;y eso, ¿a cuento de qué? what's all this in aid of?;aplicarse el cuento: ¿ves lo que le ha pasado? pues aplícate el cuento see what happened to him? well, you just have a good think about that;Famir con el cuento a alguien to go and tell sb;Famser el cuento de nunca acabar to be a never-ending story o an endless businesscuento de hadas fairy tale; Fam el cuento de la lechera:es el cuento de la lechera that's pie in the sky¡déjate de cuentos! stop making things up!, don't give me that!;ése tiene mucho cuento he's always putting it on;venir con cuentos to tell fibs o stories;CSurhacerle a alguien el cuento del tío to pull a scam on sb, to con sb;Esptener más cuento que Calleja to be a big fibber;vivir del cuento to live by one's witscuento chino:lo del final del mundo es cuento chino that stuff about the end of the world is a load of Br rubbish o US bull;* * *m1 (short) story;cuento de nunca acabar fig never-ending story;ir con el cuento a alguien tell s.o. tales2 ( pretexto) excuse;tener mucho cuento put it on fam ;vivir del cuento fam live off other people3:venir a cuento be relevant;eso no viene a cuento that’s irrelevant;traer a cuento bring up* * *cuento nm1) : story, tale2)cuento de hadas : fairy tale3)sin cuento : countless* * *cuento n2. (en literatura) short story -
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1. tale, storyвълшебни приказки fairy-talesнародни приказки popular/folk talesстрана на приказките fairy-land, dream-land/-worldразказвам приказки tell stories/tales (и прен.)ловджийски приказки tall stories/tales, ам. fish stories2. приказки (говорене) talkговоря големи приказки talk bigпразни приказки mere/idle talk; tittle-tattle, fiddle-faddle, bla-blaтова са само приказки this is mere talk; this is an old wives' tale; all talk and no doприказки! fiddlesticks! от много приказки файда няма вж. файдасамо с хубави приказки работа не се върши fine/kind/soft words butter no parsnipsда си дойдем на приказка та to resume our subject, to come back where we left off, let's return to our muttonsдойдох само на приказки I came for a chatдето има една приказка as the saying goesприказките край нямат we could go on talking forever/till midnightне ми е до приказки I'm in no talking moodскъп съм на приказките be sparing of wordsсамо да се намирам на приказки for the sake of talking/of saying s.th.хорски приказки gossip* * *прѝказка,ж., -и tale, story; вълшебни \приказкаи fairy-tales; говоря големи \приказкаи talk big; да си дойдем на \приказкаата to resume our subject, to come back where we left off, let’s return to our muttons; да си кажем по една \приказкаа let’s have a chat/gossip; дето има една \приказкаа as the saying goes; дойдох само на \приказкаи I came for a chat; ловджийски \приказкаи tall stories/tales, амер. fish stories; народни \приказкаи popular/folk tales; не ми е до \приказкаи I’m in no talking mood; от много \приказкаи файда няма what’s the use of talking; празни \приказкаи mere/idle talk; rigmarole; tittle-tattle, fiddle-faddle, bla-bla; smooth words and fair promises; \приказкаи ( говорене) talk; \приказкаи! fiddlesticks! \приказкаите край нямат we could go on talking forever/till midnight; разказвам \приказкаи tell stories/tales (и прен.); само да се намирам на \приказкаи for the sake of talking/of saying s.th.; само с хубави \приказкаи работа не се върши fine/kind/soft words butter no parsnips; седя на (сладки) \приказкаи sit chatting, enjoy a chat; скъп съм на \приказкаите be sparing of words; това са само \приказкаи this is mere talk; this is an old wives’ tale; all talk and no do; хорски \приказкаи gossip.* * *fairy-tale; tale{teil}: folk приказкаs - народни приказки; yarn; prattle (мн.ч); talk (говорене)* * *1.: приказки (говорене) talk 2. tale, story 3. вълшебни приказки fairy-tales 4. говоря големи приказки talk big 5. да си дойдем на ПРИКАЗКА та to resume our subject, to come back where we left off, let's return to our muttons 6. дето има една ПРИКАЗКА as the saying goes 7. дойдох само на приказки I came for a chat 8. ловджийски приказки tall stories/tales, ам. fish stories 9. народни приказки popular/folk tales 10. не ми е до приказки I'm in no talking mood 11. празни приказки mere/idle talk;tittle-tattle, fiddle-faddle, bla-bla 12. приказки! fiddlesticks! от много приказки файда няма вж. файда 13. приказките край нямат we could go on talking forever/till midnight 14. разказвам приказки tell stories/tales (и прен.) 15. само да се намирам на приказки for the sake of talking/of saying s.th. 16. само с хубави приказки работа не се върши fine/kind/soft words butter no parsnips 17. седя на (сладки) приказки sit chatting, enjoy a chat 18. скъп съм на приказките: be sparing of words 19. страна на приказките fairy-land, dream-land/-world 20. това са само приказки this is mere talk;this is an old wives' tale;all talk and no do 21. хорски приказки gossip -
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мн. разг.old wives' tale sg., cock-an-bull story sg., yarn sg. -
7 россказни
только мн.; разг.
old wives' tale ед., cock-and-bull story ед., yarn ед.* * ** * *только old wives' tale ед.* * *fictionsflamsfudgestale -
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мн. разг.old wives' tale sg, cock-an-bull story sg, yarn sgэ́то всё ро́ссказни — it is an old wives' tale
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9 Ammenmärchen
n pej. fairytale allg., fable* * *Ạm|men|mär|chenntfairy tale or story* * *(an absurd, unbelievable story.) cock-and-bull story* * *Am·men·mär·chennt (fam) old wives' tale* * *das fairy tale or story* * ** * *das fairy tale or story -
10 неправдоподобная история
1) General subject: an old wives' tale, cock-and-bull story, fishy story, fishy tale, unlikely tale2) Jargon: scuttle-butt, tall story3) Makarov: improbable storyУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > неправдоподобная история
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11 eski hikâye
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12 μῦθος
μῦθος, ου, ὁ (Hom. et al.; ins; Sir 20:19; TestJud 23:1 v.l.) prim. ‘speech, conversation,’ also of ‘narrative’ or ‘story’ without distinction of fact or fiction, then of fictional narrative (as opposed to λόγος, the truth of history) such as tale, story, legend, myth (so Pind., Hdt. et al.; Pla., Tim. 26e μὴ πλασθέντα μῦθον, ἀλλʼ ἀληθινὸν λόγον ‘not some contrived tale, but a true account’, Phd. 61b; Epict. 3, 24, 18; SIG 382, 7; Philo, Congr. Erud. Grat. 61 al.; Joseph.; apolog. exc. Mel.) w. πλάνη 2 Cl 13:3. Pl. (cp. Diod S 1, 93, 3; 2, 46, 6; 23, 13 [all three μῦθοι πεπλασμένοι]; Philo, Exsecr. 162 τοὺς ἄπλαστον ἀλήθειαν ἀντὶ πεπλασμένων μύθων μεταδιώκοντας; Jos., C. Ap. 2, 256) σεσοφισμένοις μ. ἐξακολουθεῖν follow cleverly devised tales 2 Pt 1:16 (Jos., Ant. 1, 22 τ. μύθοις ἐξακολουθεῖν; cp the contrast between the πράξεις ἐναργεῖς [‘manifest performance’] of Isis in Egypt and the inferior Hellenic μυθολογία Diod. Sic. 1, 25, 4; New Docs 4, 80; on Gr-Rom. historians’ concern for the truth of history as opposed to mythography s. Spicq 2, 532–33). Of erroneous instruction Ἰουδαϊκοὶ μ. Tit 1:14. βέβηλοι καὶ γραώδεις μ. frivolous old wives’ tales 1 Ti 4:7 (cp. Lucian, Philops. 9 γραῶν μῦθοι; Ael. Aristid. 45 p. 133 D. As early as Pla., Gorg. 527a μ. ὥσπερ γραός; Ps-Xenophon, Ep. 7). W. γενεαλογίαι (q.v.) 1:4. ἐπὶ τοὺς μ. ἐκτρέπεσθαι turn to legends 2 Ti 4:4.—EHoffmann, Qua ratione ἔπος, μῦθος, αἶνος λόγος … adhibita sint, diss. Gött. 1922; LMueller, Wort u. Begriff Mythos im kl. Griech., diss. Hamburg, ’54; KGoldammer, ZNW 48, ’57, 93–100; CBarrett, ET 68, ’57, 345–48; 359–62.—DELG. M-M. EDNT. TRE XXIII 597–661. TW. Spicq. Sv. -
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ж.1) ( жанр повествования) taleволше́бная ска́зка — fairy tale
наро́дные ска́зки — popular tales, folktales
расска́зывать ска́зки — tell stories / tales
2) в знач. сказ. (что-л необыкновенное, поразительное) a dreamэ́то был не дом, а ска́зка — the house was a dream; it was a dream house
3) (обман, выдумка) lie, tall taleэ́то всё ска́зки! — don't tell me tales!; tell it to the marines! идиом.
••ска́зка про бе́лого бычка́ — ≈ the same old story
ска́зки для дурако́в — ≈ muck for mugs
ба́бьи ска́зки презр. — old wives' tales
ни в ска́зке сказа́ть, ни перо́м описа́ть — more than words can tell
сде́лать ска́зку бы́лью — make a dream come true
жить как в ска́зке — live in a dream come true; live in a paradise
ско́ро ска́зка ска́зывается, да не ско́ро де́ло де́лается погов. — things are sooner said than done
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14 Altweibermärchen
n pej. fairytale* * *(a superstitious and misleading story.) old wives' tale* * *Altweibermärchen n pej fairytale -
15 conseja
f.1 a fable, tale, story, legend.2 conspiracy, plot, scheme.* * *1 literal fable, legend* * ** * *tale, fable -
16 kurtmasalı
n. old wives' tale, cock-and-bull story, false excuses -
17 bobe
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18 Bubbe maisse
1. Grandmother's tale; 2. a "tall" story; old wives' talesYiddish-English dictionary (in roman letters) > Bubbe maisse
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19 россказни
мн разгtales; cock and bull story coll sg; old wives’ tale sg -
20 Ammenmärchen
n1. cock-and-bull story2. old wives' tale
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