Spaniolă | Engleză |
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poner sobre la mesa verb | table [tabled, tabling, tables](to put on a table) |
poner su ilusión en verb | pin one's hopes on(to place all one's trust in) |
poner talón/tacón a verb | heel [heeled, heeling, heels](To follow at somebody's heels) |
poner tierra de por medio verb | take to the hills(idioms meaning "to run away") |
poner toda la carne en el asador verb | pull out all the stops(reserve nothing) |
poner un huevo verb | lay an egg(to produce an egg) |
poner verde verb | tell off(to rebuke) |
ponerle el cascabel al gato verb | bell the cat(to undertake a dangerous action in the service of a group) |
ponerse verb | don [donned, donning, dons](put on clothes) get [got, gotten, getting, gets](to adopt, assume (a position)) put on(to don clothing) |
ponerse a la defensiva verb | bristle [bristled, bristling, bristles](to be on one's guard) |
ponerse al socaire verb | shirk [shirked, shirking, shirks](avoid a duty) |
ponerse bonito verb | dress upverb |
ponerse de acuerdo verb | comport [comported, comporting, comports](to be in agreement) |
ponerse de morros verb | pout [pouted, pouting, pouts](sulk, (pretend to) be ill-tempered) |
ponerse de pie verb | stand up(rise from a sitting position) |
ponerse el mundo por montera verb | throw caution to the windverb |
ponerse elegante verb | dress up(to put on special or fancy clothes) |
ponerse las botas verb | make a killing(to win or earn a large amount of money) pig out(eat voraciously or ravenously) |
ponerse las pilas verb | get one's act together(become serious and organized) get one's finger out(stop delaying) pull one's socks up(start making an effort; to renew or redouble one's efforts) roll up one's sleeves(prepare to work) |
ponerse malo de verb | come down with(to show symptoms of an illness) |
ponerse polvos verb | powder [powdered, powdering, powders](to use powder on the hair or skin) |
anteponer verb | prefer [preferred, preferring, prefers](to favor) prepend [prepended, prepending, prepends](to attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix) |
arponero noun {m} | harpooner(someone who hunts with a harpoon) |
caponera noun {f} | caponier(fortification structure) |
componer verb | compose [composed, composing, composes](to make something by merging parts) fix [fixed, fixing, fixes](to mend or repair) |
componerse verb | compose [composed, composing, composes](to comprise) |
componérselas verb | get along(survive; to do well enough) make do(to get by (with)) |
descomponer verb | break [broke, broken, breaking, breaks](transitive: to cause to stop functioning) decompose [decomposed, decomposing, decomposes](to separate) impair [impaired, impairing, impairs](have a diminishing effect on) parse [parsed, parsing, parses]((linguistics) to resolve into elements) |