Spaniolă | Engleză |
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jalado de los pelos adjective | far-fetched(not likely) |
juego de pelota noun {m} | ball game [ball games](game played with a ball) |
la pelota está en el tejado de alguien phrase | |
no tener pelos en la lengua verb | mince words(to use euphemisms) |
papelógrafo noun {m} | flip chart(large pad) |
papelón noun | jaggery [jaggeries](traditional unrefined dark-brown sugar made from palm tree sap; other types of unrefined sugar) |
papelón noun {m} | spectacle [spectacles](an embarrassing situation) |
papelote noun {m} | kite [kites](lightweight toy) rag [rags]((slang, pejorative) A newspaper) |
peinarse el pelo verb | comb one's hair(to straighten one's hair with a comb) |
pomada de pelo noun {f} | pomade(greasy substance) |
por un pelo preposition | by a hair's breadth(by a narrow margin) by the skin of one's teeth(barely, closely) |
prendedor de pelo noun {m} | barrette [barrettes](A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair) |
raya del pelo noun {f} | parting [partings](line dividing hair) |
recogepelotas noun {f} | ball girl(female who clears balls) |
recogepelotas noun {m} {f} | ball boy(A male person responsible for retrieving balls) |
repelo noun {m} | loathing(sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike) |
secador de pelo noun {m} | hairdryer(electrical appliance for drying hair) |
terciopelo noun {m} | velvet [velvets](fabric) |
tirado de los pelos adjective | far-fetched(not likely) |
tomadura de pelo noun {f} | joke [jokes](worthless thing or person) |
tomar el pelo verb | fool(to trick; to make a fool of someone) gleek(to jest, ridicule, or mock) kid [kidded, kidding, kids](make a fool of) pull someone's leg(to tease someone) rip off((idiom) to steal, cheat or swindle) take the piss(to mock or ridicule (transitive)) tease [teased, teasing, teases](to poke fun at) wind up(to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock) |
tomar el pelo a verb | banter [bantered, bantering, banters](to tease mildly) |
traído por los pelos adjective | far-fetched(not likely) |
un pelo de concha tira más que una yunta de bueyes phrase | one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen(women have great influence on their male partners) |
vendedor de crecepelo noun {m} | charlatan [charlatans](malicious trickster) |
venir al pelo noun | what the doctor ordered(exactly what is necessary or useful in a given situation) |
zorro pelón noun {m} | opossum [opossums](marsupial of the Didelphidae) |