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1 pe ducă
1. going awayabout to go.2. running short / outcoming to an end.3. fig. on one's deathbedon one's last legson one's uppers / beam-endsoff one's high horsee pe ducă aprox. his / her number is up. -
2 a ieşi prost
1. ( d. cineva) to failto succeedto turn out / to be a failureto fall short.2. ( d. ceva) to turn out ill / badly / crabsto end badly / in a bad wayto result badly. -
3 a da greş
1. ( a nu reuşi) to failto come to little( a se înşela)to make a mistake in one's calculation / account / accountsto be out in one's reckoningto miss one's guess.2. ( a nu nimeri) to shoot wide of the markto miss (one's aim)to make a bad hitto fall short of the markto split on a rock(d. un plan etc.) to go to smash. 3. ( a fi dezamăgit) to meet with (a) disappointment. -
4 a rămâne lefter
to run out / short of moneyto be penniless / pinched / reducedto be up a treenot to have a penny to bless oneself with. -
5 a-i lipsi o doagă
to have a screw / a tile / a slate loose / offto be wrong in the upper storyto be a / one button shortto be off one's base / chump / rockerto have a crackto have bats in one's / in belfry / rats in the atticto want two pence in the shillingto be not (quite) all thereto be a bit madto have taken leave of / to be out of one's sensesto have lost a buttonnot to have one's button onsl. to have got apartments to letsl. amer. to have a cylinder missing. -
6 cu răsuflarea tăiată
with bated breathshort of breathout of puff. -
7 pe drojdie
1. running out / shortcoming to an end. -
8 pe sfârşite
1. running shorton the wanedrying outat an end.2. ( d. un spectacol etc.) on its last legs.
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