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1 spare the rod and spoil the child
spare the rod and spoil the childcriança mimada, criança estragada.English-Portuguese dictionary > spare the rod and spoil the child
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2 spoil
[spoil]past tense, past participles - spoiled, spoilt; verb1) (to damage or ruin; to make bad or useless: If you touch that drawing you'll spoil it.) estragar2) (to give (a child etc) too much of what he wants and possibly make his character, behaviour etc worse by doing so: They spoil that child dreadfully and she's becoming unbearable!) estragar•- spoils- spoilt
- spoilsport* * *[spɔil] n 1 (também spoils pl) espólio, presa (de guerra). 2 pilhagem, saque. 3 cargos, posições preenchidas por protegidos políticos. • vt+vi (ps+pp spoilt, spoiled) 1 arruinar, danificar, estragar, destruir. your news spoilt my appetite / perdi o apetite por causa das suas notícias. 2 deteriorar, estragar-se, apodrecer. 3 estragar (o caráter), corromper. 4 saquear, pilhar, roubar. 5 estragar (crianças) com mimos, mimar. 6 frustrar, baldar. he’s spoiling for it coll ele está louco atrás disto. spare the rod and spoil the child criança mimada, criança estragada. -
3 spoil
[spoil]past tense, past participles - spoiled, spoilt; verb1) (to damage or ruin; to make bad or useless: If you touch that drawing you'll spoil it.) estragar2) (to give (a child etc) too much of what he wants and possibly make his character, behaviour etc worse by doing so: They spoil that child dreadfully and she's becoming unbearable!) mimar, estragar•- spoils- spoilt - spoilsport -
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['ru:in] 1. noun1) (a broken, collapsed or decayed state: the ruin of a city.) ruína2) (a cause of collapse, decay etc: Drink was his ruin.) ruína3) (financial disaster; complete loss of money: The company is facing ruin.) ruína2. verb1) (to cause ruin to: The scandal ruined his career.) arruinar2) (to spoil; to treat too indulgently: You are ruining that child!) estragar•- ruined
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- in ruins* * *ru.in[r'u:in] n 1 ruína, destruição, estrago, dano. they brought him to ruin / levaram-no à ruína. 2 decadência, queda, arruinamento. 3 aniquilamento, assolação. 4 bancarrota, falência, perda. 5 ruins ruínas, destroços, escombros. • vt 1 arruinar, estragar, decair, destruir. he ruined himself / ele arruinou-se. 2 falir, ir à falência ou bancarrota. 3 seduzir, desonrar, fazer perder. 4 desgraçar, empobrecer. to go to ruin arruinar-se, decair. -
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['ru:in] 1. noun1) (a broken, collapsed or decayed state: the ruin of a city.) ruína2) (a cause of collapse, decay etc: Drink was his ruin.) ruína3) (financial disaster; complete loss of money: The company is facing ruin.) ruína2. verb1) (to cause ruin to: The scandal ruined his career.) arruinar2) (to spoil; to treat too indulgently: You are ruining that child!) estragar•- ruined - ruins - in ruins
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spare the rod and spoil the child — And introduces a consequence. With allusion to PROVERBS xiii. 24 (AV) He that spareth his rod, hateth his son. c 1000 AELFRIC Homilies (1843) II. 324 Se the sparath his gyrde [stick], he hatath his cild. 1377 LANGLAND Piers Plowman B. v. 41… … Proverbs new dictionary
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