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f.1 flea (insect).2 bug.3 silicon chip.* * *1 flea\buscarle las pulgas a alguien familiar to wind somebody uptener malas pulgas familiar to have a rotten temper* * *SF1) (=insecto) fleahacer de una pulga un elefante o un camello — (=dar importancia) to make a mountain out of a molehill; (=buscar defectos) to nit-pick
2) [de juego] tiddlywink3) (Inform) bug* * *femenino (Zool) fleabuscarle las pulgas a alguien — (fam) to put somebody on (AmE colloq), to wind somebody up (BrE colloq)
tener malas pulgas — (fam) to be bad-tempered, have a bad temper
* * *= flea.Ex. The diseases and infestations caused by mites, lice, bed bugs, fleas, and ticks are discussed.----* de malas pulgas = in a grouch.* malas pulgas = ornery, grouchiness, grouch.* * *femenino (Zool) fleabuscarle las pulgas a alguien — (fam) to put somebody on (AmE colloq), to wind somebody up (BrE colloq)
tener malas pulgas — (fam) to be bad-tempered, have a bad temper
* * *= flea.Ex: The diseases and infestations caused by mites, lice, bed bugs, fleas, and ticks are discussed.
* de malas pulgas = in a grouch.* malas pulgas = ornery, grouchiness, grouch.* * *A ( Zool) fleano aguanta/no aguanto pulgas ( fam); he doesn't/I don't suffer fools gladlyhay muchas maneras de matar pulgas there is more than one way to skin a catB ( Inf)1 (error) bug (sl)2 (chip) silicon chip* * *
pulga sustantivo femenino (Zool) flea;◊ tener malas pulgas (fam) to be bad-tempered
pulga sustantivo femenino flea
♦ Locuciones: familiar tener malas pulgas, to be bad-tempered
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English:
flea
* * *pulga nf[insecto] flea; Famtener malas pulgas to be bad-tempered, Br to be stroppy;Am Fam RP Fam* * *f ZO flea;tener malas pulgas fig fam be bad-tempered* * *pulga nf1) : flea2)tener malas pulgas : to be bad-tempered* * *pulga n flea -
2 juego de la pulga
• tiddledywinks• tiddlywinks
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