English C2 vocabulary 2T - others 1 Flashcards
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Se argumenta …
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It is argued …
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Es una creencia común …
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It is a common belief …
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Nunca esto ha sido más obvio
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Never has this been more obvious
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Cambiando de tema
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On another note
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Hacerte un lío
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To get yourself into a mess
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No quiero ponerme serio aquí
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I don’t want to get heavy here
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El jefe entre ellos
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Chief among these
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Presumiblemente es ya un cadáver
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Presumably would now be better called Mr Bones
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Subirse a la cabeza de alguien
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To go to SO’s head
Winning the beauty contest has gone to Sheila’s head
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Decir algo públicamente y que queda grabado
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To go on record (as saying ST)
Are you prepared to go on record as supporting the council?
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Ser desperdiciado o no usado
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To go to waste
Eat your potatoes! Don’t let them go to waste!
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Irse de repente por la tangente
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To go off at a tangent
It’s hard to get a firm decision out of him - he’s always going off at a tangent
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Intentar que algo tenga éxito trabajando mucho
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To try to make a go of ST
She’s really making a go of her new antique shop
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De manera muy clara
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In no uncertain terms
She told him what she thought of his behaviour in no uncertain terms
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No coneguir nada con lo que estás haciendo
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To get nowhere (fast)
He was trying to persuade her to let him drive, but he was getting nowhere fast
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Morir con las botas puestas
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To go out in a blaze of glory
The Japanese decided to go out in a blaze of glory and fight to the very last man
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Se revela en
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It reveals itself in
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Sentar las reglas
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To lay down the rules
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Tener a alguien en alta estima
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To hold SO in high esteem
SO is helded in high esteem by SO
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Estar completo y acabado
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To be done and dusted
By now the deal is done and dusted
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Dar algo a alguien en bandeja de plata
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To give/hand ST to SO on a plate
The team did very little to impress, yet the game was handed to them on a plate by their opponents
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Estar grabado a fuego
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To be set/written in concrete/stone
The financial plan is set in stone
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Dar luz verde a algo
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To give the green light to ST
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Dejar a alguien que haga lo que quiera
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To leave SO to their own devices
In the afternoon students are left to their own devices
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Proporcionar luz, clarificar
To shed light on ST
| Can you shed any light on when it was built?
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Rodar cabezas
To roll heads
| The manager is furious and I think heads will roll
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Mis labios están sellados
My lips are sealed
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Caer en algo
The penny drops
| I had been listening when finally the penny dropped and I realised it
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Dar los últimos toques a algo
To put/make the finishing touches to ST
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Presentar cargos
To press charges
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Por la fuerza
Forcibly
| The protestors were forcibly removed from the building
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Por razones mejor conocidas por ...
For reasons best known to ...
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Sustancialmente, considerablemente
Substantially, considerably
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A un tiro de piedra de ...
A stone's throw (away) from
| The cottage is just a stone's throw from the sea
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Hacer un esfuerzo para entender o gestionar una situación
To come/get to grips with
| The government have failed to come to grips with the two most important social issues of our time
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Con la esperanza de que ...
In the hope that ...
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Arrojar luz sobre algo
To shine a light on ST
| We shine a light on human rights business
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Avergonzados por nuestra carencia de conocimiento sobre ...
Ashamed of our lack of knowledge of ...
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Engañados por falsas promesas ...
Tricked by false promises ...
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La esclavitud de hoy tiene que ver con el comercio
Today's slavery is about commerce
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Nos vemos unos a otros como hermanos seres humanos
We see one another as fellow human beings
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Poner objeciones a algo
To raise objections to ST/SO's doing ST
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Hacer exactamente lo que se necesita para tener éxito
To oush the rights buttons
| With its modern design and functionality, it pushes all the right buttons
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Calentito de la prensa, ...
Hot off the press, ...
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Estar a años luz de algo
To be light years away from ST/doing ST
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Hacer algo que impide que un plan o actividad tenga éxito
To throw a spanner in the works
| The funding for the project was withdrawn so that really threw a spanner in the works
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Reinventar la rueda, perder el tiempo intentando crear algo que ya existe
To reinvent the wheel
| Trying to do it all ourselves may mean we're just reinventing the wheel
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Si no está roto, no lo arregles
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
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Dejar de funcionar de repente
To go haywire
| The television's gone haywire
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Poner en marcha la maquinaria
To set the wheels in motion
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Engrasar las ruedas
To oil the wheels
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Ver las cosas de color de rosa
To see ST through rose-tinted spectacles
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Más allá de tus sueños
Beyond your wildest dreams
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En mi opinión, en mi pueblo, ...
In my book, ...
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Encontrarse enfermo
To feel under the weather
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Desequilibrar la balanza
To tip the balance/scales
Two quick goals from Robson tipped the balances in favour of England
Her lack of computer skills tipped the scales against her
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Hagamos sitio para las cosas buenas
Let's make room for the good stuff
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Por motivos morales o religiosos
On moral/religious grounds
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Novedo ningún mal en ...
I see no harm in ...
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Causar estrechez o dificultad en algo
To put a crimp in ST
| Her mother might put a crimp in her social life
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Echarle un tiento a algo, intentar algo por primera vez
To try your hand at ST/doing ST
| I tried my hand at short stories, but poetry is my field
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Tener un golpe de suerte
To strike it lucky
| A few writers strike it lucky by creating a bestseller
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Por miedo a
For fear that/of ST/of doing ST
They don't let the cat outside for fear that it runs over
I didn't want to move for fear of waking her up
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En vez (de)
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In lieu (of)
His family requested donations to a charity in lieu of flowers
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Es la norma
Is the norm
| As for global warming, indifference is the norm
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La cubierta de un libro es un haiku de la historia
A book cover is a haiku of the story
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Mostrar el poder económico
To display one's wealth
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Broma hombre equivocado y mujer
If a man speaks his mind in the forest and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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Lleva un estigma grabado
It has a stigma attached to it
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Ojo por ojo y diente por diente
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
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Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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La verdad es que ...
The fact of the matter is that ...
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Pocos discutirían el hecho de que ...
Few would dispute the fact that ...
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Tener ojo para
To have an eye for
| You definitely have an eye for good restaurants
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Volver a las andadas
To return to the old habits
| My printer returned to the old habits and didn't print anything
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Mens sana in corpore sano
A healthy mind in a healthy body
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Mantener las tradiciones vivas
To keep traditions alive
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Pasar de generación en generación
To hand down from generation to generation
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Ser vendido en una subasta
To go under the hammer
| A private collection of early paintings is expected to go under the hammer next week
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Qué se puede hacer con este escenario desolador?
What can be done about this gloomy scenario?
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Sin gastarse mucho dinero
Without breaking the bank
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Ejercitar tus derechos legales
To exercise your legal rights
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El triunfo de la mente sobre los problemas
The triumph of mind over matter
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Ponerte al límite
To push yourself to the limit
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Rechazar la aceptación de la derrota
To refuse to accept defeat
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Superar tus limitaciones
To overcome your limitations
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Por lo que sabemos, ...
For all we know, ...
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Por lo común, la mayoría de las veces
More often than not
| When you read their books, more often than not they will come across as people...
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No hay nada que me gustaría más que ...
There's nothing I'd like more than to do ST
| There's nothing I'd like more than to visit the art gallery again
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Como último recurso
In the last resort/as a last resort
| British police are supposed to use guns only as a last resort
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Quieres poner las cosas en marcha?
Do you want to get things going?
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Valorar algo (abstracto)
To place value on ST
| That's why I place value on everything that happens to me
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Buscar algo más
To look for something more
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Por lo que, consecuentemente, esa es la razón por la que
Hence
His mother was Italian, hence his name - Luca
Students need a certificate for foreign study, hence the huge demand for courses
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Causar sorpresa o shock, hacer levantar la ceja
To raise some/a few eyebrows
| Jemma's miniskirt raised a few eyebrows at the board meeting
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Tocarle las narices a alguien
To get up SO's nose
| People who drive like that really get up my nose
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Cumplir con lo prometido
To come up with the goods
| This chairman is good at making promises but he hardly ever comes up with the goods
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Solidarizarse con alguien en un huelga y no trabajar
To come out in sympathy with
| The pilots came out in sympathy with the cabin crew during the one-day strike las week
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Uno puede verse fácilment influido hacia ...
One can easily be swayed to ...
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Esto puede verse en ...
This can be seen in ...
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Aunque pueda ser solamente una cuestión de ...
Yet it might only be a question of ...
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Tener las primeras experiencias en algo
To cut your teeth
| The minister cut her political teeth on student debates
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Igualmente
Similarly, equally, additionally
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Subir peldaños
To progress up the rungs
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Todavía no se sabe, no se ha decidido
The jury's still out (on, as to)
| The jury's still out on what implications this has for humans
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Agachar la cabeza y evitar problemas
To keep your head down
| He's in a bad mood today - I'm just keeping my head down
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La gente joven está más que dispuesta a trabajar sin cobrar o cobrando muy poco
Young people are usually more than willing to work unpaid or for minimal wages
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La muerte es un agujero en la realidad
Death is a hole in reality
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Casi
Almost
All but
Nigh on
Well nigh
I have all but finished; just give me a few minutes
Our family has lived there well nigh/nigh on two hundred years
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Relaciones personales a lo largo de los años
The infant seeks nurture-the child, responsiveness-the preadolescent, a close friend-the teenager, friendship with the other sex-and the adult, a spouse
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En una realidad alternativa
In an alternative lifetime
| In an alternative reality
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Desde el principio
From the beginning
All along
They have known about it all along
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Precisamente tú
You of all people
| I never expected you of all people to say such a thing!
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Abrirte el apetito por
To whet you appetite for
| What she told me whetted my appetite for the rest of the story
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Ser la niña bonita de
To be the apple of
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Nada más que
Nothing other than
| Nothing other than a full refund will satisfy her
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Esperar tu oportunidad
To bide your time
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Estar hecho para
To be cut out to
| James realized that he wasn't cut out to be an architect
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Pensar por ti mismo
To think for yourself
| Dare to think for yourself
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Algo te hace hervir la sangre
ST makes your blood boil
| His attitude really makes my blood boil
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Contar la verdad sobre algo y desahogarte
To make a clean breast of it
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Coger el toro por los cuernos
To take the bull by the horns
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Revelar algo
To lay bare
| It's been promoted as the biography that lays bare the truth behind the legend
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Estar equivocado con la manera de hacer algo
To be barking up the wrong tree
| She thinks it'll solve the problem, but I reckon she's barking up the wrong tree
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Estar obsesionado con algo y hablar de ello
To have a bee in your bonnet (about)
| He has a bee in his bonnet about the dishonesty of lawyers
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Las acciones hablan más que las palabras
Actions speak louder than words
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Es mejor actuar de inmediato que dejar pudrir el problema
A stitch in time saves nine
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Muchos patrones y pocos marineros
To many chiefs and not enough Indians
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A quien madruga Dios le ayuda
The early bird catches the worm
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Siempre hay algo positivo en lo malo
Every cloud has a silver lining
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Las desgracias nunca vienen solas
It never rains but it pours
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No vale la pena lamentarse por algo ya que ya no tiene remedio
There's no use crying over spilt milk
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Más vale tarde que nunca
Better late than never
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El tiempo no espera
Time and tide wait for no man
| Carpe Diem
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Bien está lo que bien acaba
All's well that ends well
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No vendas la piel del oso antes de cazarlo
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched
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Nunca nos conformamos con lo que tenemos
The grass is always greener on the other side
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La curiosidad mató al gato
Curiosity killed the cat
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Mi única razón para hacer algo es ...
My sole reason for doing ST is to do ST
| My sole reason for coming was to see you
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Esta afirmación es demasiado extrema
This statement is too extreme
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Hacer trabajo en equipo
To do group work
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Una generación criada con una dieta de pop
A generation reared on a diet of pop
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Aprender practicando
Learning by doing
| The most appreciated way of learning is learning by doing
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Presidir una reunión
To chair a meeting
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Jugar bien tus cartas
To play your cards right
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Dejar las cosas estar para no causar problemas
To let sleeping dogs lie
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Encontrar fallos, criticar
To find fault with SO
| Our boss constantly finds fault with our work
