Španielčina | Angličtina |
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como mínimo preposition | at least(at a lower limit) |
como mucho adverb | tops(maximum) |
como muy tarde preposition | at the latest(not later than) |
como no conjunction | unless(except on a specified condition) |
cómo no interjection | get out of here(expression of disbelief) |
como nuevo adjective | right as rain(very good; healthy) |
como panes calientes preposition | like hot cakes(quickly) |
como peña adjective | rock hard(hard like rock) |
como pez en el agua preposition | in one's element(in a suitable environment) like a duck takes to water(Very naturally) |
como pez fuera del agua noun | fish out of water(a person in unfamiliar, and often uncomfortable, surroundings) |
como pidgin chino adjective | Chinglish(resembling English influenced by Chinese) |
como piedra adjective | rock hard(hard like rock) |
como pollo sin cabeza preposition | like a chicken with its head cut off(in a frantic, disorganized manner) |
como promedio preposition | on average(as a measure of central tendency) |
como puta por rastrojo adjective {m} | down and out(in a condition of poverty or debility) |
como que participle | like(colloquial: mild intensifier) |
como que vivo y respiro phrase | as I live and breathe(used to express surprise at an experience one is witnessing) |
como queríamos demostrar phrase | quod erat demonstrandumphrase |
como quien dice adverb | so to speak(in a manner of speaking) |
como quien no quiere la cosa preposition | on the Q.T.(secretly) |
como quiera interjection | as you wishinterjection |
como quieras interjection | as you like(unenthusiastic consent) |
como rayo caído del cielo noun | bolt from the blue(something totally unexpected) |
como relámpago adjective | breakneck(dangerously fast; hell-for-leather) |
como rosquillas preposition | like hot cakes(quickly) |
como sea interjection | whatever(indicating the speaker does not care what someone says) |
como si conjunction | as if(as though) as though(as to suggest that) |
como si nada ocurriera noun | business as usual(The normal course of an activity, in circumstances that are out of the ordinary) |
como si no hubiera un mañana adverb | as if there were no tomorrow(to an excessive degree) |
como si su vida dependiera de ello preposition | like one's life depended on it(desperately) |
como sigue adverb | as follows(in the manner described hereafter) |
como tal preposition | as suchpreposition |
como toca adverb | properly(in a proper manner) |
como turco en la neblina adjective | blind as a bat(nearly totally blind) |
como un chivo en cristalería adjective | like a bull in a china shop(clumsy, aggressive) |
como un chivo en cristalería adverb | like a bull in a china shop(clumsily, aggressively) |
como un elefante en una cacharrería adjective | like a bull in a china shop(clumsy, aggressive) |
como un elefante en una cacharrería adverb | like a bull in a china shop(clumsily, aggressively) |