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81 send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
(to send (a person) away firmly and without politeness: He tried to borrow money from me again, but I soon sent him packing.) na kratko odpravitiEnglish-Slovenian dictionary > send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
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82 send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
(to send (a person) away firmly and without politeness: He tried to borrow money from me again, but I soon sent him packing.) na kratko odpravitiEnglish-Slovenian dictionary > send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
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83 send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
(to send (a person) away firmly and without politeness: He tried to borrow money from me again, but I soon sent him packing.) na kratko odpravitiEnglish-Slovenian dictionary > send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
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84 send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
(to send (a person) away firmly and without politeness: He tried to borrow money from me again, but I soon sent him packing.) na kratko odpravitiEnglish-Slovenian dictionary > send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
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85 sidestep
past tense, past participle - sidestepped; verb1) (to step to one side: He sidestepped as his attacker tried to grab him.) stopiti vstran2) (to avoid: to sidestep a problem.) izogniti se -
86 sleeping-pill / sleeping-tablet
nouns (a kind of pill that can be taken to make one sleep: She tried to commit suicide by swallowing an overdose of sleeping-pills.) uspavalna tabletaEnglish-Slovenian dictionary > sleeping-pill / sleeping-tablet
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87 son of a bitch
noun, interjection ((slang) an annoying and nasty person; an unpleasant task: The son of a bitch tried to cheat me!) baraba -
88 stand up to
(to show resistance to: He stood up to the bigger boys who tried to bully him; These chairs have stood up to very hard use.) kljubovati -
89 to no avail
(of no use or effect: He tried to revive her but to no avail; His efforts were of no avail.) brez učinka
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