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mosca

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fly

∗ noun

mosca
feminine noun
1. fly
  • aflojar o soltar la mosca (figurative) -> to cough up, to fork out
  • cazar moscas (figurative) -> to twiddle one's thumbs
  • estar con o tener la mosca detrás de la oreja (informal) -> to be suspicious o distrustful
  • no se oía ni una mosca (informal) -> you could have heard a pin drop
  • por si las moscas (informal) -> just in case
  • ¿qué mosca te ha picado? (informal figurative) -> what's up with you?
  • mosca muerta (informal figurative) -> slyboots, hypocrite
  • mosca tse-tsé -> tsetse fly
adjective invariable
also:
  • estar mosca -> to smell a rat; (con sospechas) (peninsular Spanish) to be in a mood (enfadado)

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mosca [mos’-cah]
noun
1. Fly, a two-winged insect; the housefly. (f)
2. (coll.) Cash, specie; money in hand (dinero). (f)
3. An impertinent intruder. (f)
4. Vexation, trouble. (f)
5. (f)
noun, plural
6. Sparks from a light (centellas).
7.
noun, plural
8. Exclamation of complaint or surprise.
  • Mosca de burro -> horse-fly
  • Mosca muerta -> hypocrite
  • Picarle la mosca -> to spend a bad quarter of an hour, to be disquieted
  • Sacudir las moscas -> to shake off an incumbrance
  • Tener la mosca detrás de la oreja -> to be wary
  • Por si las moscas -> just in case

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mosca
1 (insecto) fly
pescar a la mosca to fish with a fly; fly-fish
sería incapaz de matar una mosca
asarse las moscas
se asaban las moscas it was baking hot
caer como moscas to drop like flies
los soldados enemigos caían como moscas
cazar moscas to daydream
mandar a algn a capar moscas to tell sb to go to blazes (familiar)
papar moscas to daydream
por si las moscas just in case
me llevaré el impermeable por si las moscas I'll take my raincoat just in case
¿qué mosca te/le ha picado? what's got into you/him?
tener la mosca en o detrás de la oreja to smell a rat (familiar)
mosca artificial (en pesca) fly
mosca azul mosca blanca whitefly
mosca de burro horsefly
mosca de España Spanish fly; cantharides
mosca de la carne meat fly
mosca de la fruta fruit fly
mosca doméstica house fly
mosca drosofila drosophila; fruit fly
mosca muerta
mosquita
mosca tsetsé tsetse fly
2 (pesado) pest
3 (dinero) dough (familiar)
aflojar o soltar la mosca to fork out (familiar); stump up
4 (barba) small goatee beard
5 moscas (centellas) sparks
moscas volantes spots before the eyes; floaters
6 (México) (parásito) sponger (familiar)
adjetivo:invariable
(España)
estar mosca (suspicaz) to be suspicious; smell a rat (familiar); (preocupado) to be worried
no copies en el examen porque el profesor está mosca abandonamos el robo porque el guarda estaba mosca está mosca porque es tarde y no ha llamado
estar mosca con algn (enfadado) to be cross o annoyed with sb

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