cuento meaning in English
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| cuento noun {m} | short story [short stories](work of fiction) story [stories](account of events) tale [tales](type of story) yarn [yarns](story) |
| cuento chino noun {m} | bullshit(vulgar slang for deceptive or exaggerated nonsense, see also: nonsense) tall tale(a greatly exaggerated, fantastic story) |
| cuento de fantasmas noun {m} | ghost story(story about ghosts) |
| cuento de hadas noun {m} | fairy tale [fairy tales](folktale) |
| cuento moralizante noun {m} | cautionary tale(story) |
| descuento noun | offset [offsets](compensating equivalent) |
| descuento noun {m} | discount [discounts](reduction in price) injury time(additional time played straight after each of the two halves) |
| el cuento de la lechera noun {m} | wishful thinking(illusion that what one would like is true) |
| este cuento se ha acabado adverb | happily ever after(happily until death) |
| Holocuento proper noun {m} | Holohoax(the Holocaust viewed as a fabricated event) |
| libro de cuentos noun {m} | storybook [storybooks](a book containing stories, especially children's stories) |
| no venir a cuento adjective | beside the point(irrelevant) neither here nor there(having no influence or significance on the issue at hand) |
| para no hacerte el cuento largo adverb | long story short(Introducing a short version of, or simply the conclusion of, an involved story) |
| que no viene a cuento adjective | extraneous(not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing) |
| sin venir a cuento phrase | apropos of nothing(without reference to anything) |
| tiempo de descuento noun {m} | injury time(additional time played straight after each of the two halves) |
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