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ATTENTION NATIVE SPANISH SPEAKERS!!!?
Please help me figure out what these common idioms/phrases mean!
¿Qué significa...?
1. Las paredes oyen.
2. quemarse las cejas
3. no decir ni pío
4. tomar aliento / tomar a pecho
5. tener lugar / tener sentido
¡Gracias!
2 Answers
- LunaLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
1. Las paredes oyen. = walls [can] hear.
2. quemarse las cejas = burn one's eyebrows
3. no decir ni pío = to not say a thing
4. tomar aliento / tomar a pecho = take a breath / take to heart
5. tener lugar / tener sentido = take place / make sense
- Anonymous4 years ago
ok, enable's see: a million. This one is used an identical way because of the fact the English expression "raining cats and canines". 2. this means some thing like "be approximately to" or "very nearly", it does not translate actually although. occasion: Por %. me caigo (i became approximately to crumple / I very nearly fell down). 3. this means "to omit some thing or somebody". occasion: l. a. echo de menos (I omit her). 4. approximately this one right here is what Wikipedia says approximately it: A separate shape is haber de + infinitive. it isn't any longer impersonal. It has a tendency to precise a undeniable nuance of legal accountability and a undeniable nuance of destiny stressful, very like the expression "to be to". it is likewise oftentimes used besides deber ("could", "could"). be conscious that the third very own singular of the present stressful is ha. * Mañana he de dar una charla ante l. a. Universidad = "the following day i'm to furnish a speech till now the college". * Ha de comer más verduras = "She could devour greater vegetables". 5. This one convey legal accountability. occasion: Hay que prepara l. a. cena (lit. Dinner desires training). 6. it is an expresion meaning to get your self to artwork on some thing. occasion: Debemos terminar de limpiar, entonces ¡manos a l. a. obra! (We could end cleansing, then enable's circulate!). 7. Left-handed / applicable-handed / Ambidextrous 8. To make your self or to tutor into / to placed on or to tutor into / to tutor around or to grow to be / To grow to be / "be waiting to be" (non-literal). 9. with the aid of oneself 10. To be in the twilight (of one's existence).