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pascua
feminine noun
1. Easter (de los cristianos)
  • hacer la pascua a alguien (informal) -> to pester somebody; (ser pesado) to land somebody in it (poner en apuros)
  • Pascuas -> Christmas (Navidad)
  • ¡felices Pascuas! (singular) -> Merry Christmas!
  • de Pascuas a Ramos -> once in a blue moon
2. Passover (de los judíos)

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pascua [pahs'-coo-ah]
noun
1. Passover, a feast among the Jews. (f)
2. Easter, the day on which the Savior’s resurrection is commemorated. (f)
3. Christmas. (Metaphorical) (f)
4. (coll.) Any festival of the church which lasts three days. (f)
  • Hacer pascua -> to begin to eat meat after Lent
  • Santas pascuas -> be it so
  • Pascua de Navidad -> Christmas
  • Estar como unas pascuas -> to be as happy as a sandboy

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Pascua
1 (Navidad) Christmas time; Christmas period; (Epifanía) Epiphany
¡felices Pascuas! merry Christmas!
Pascua(s) de Navidad Christmas
2 (en Semana Santa) Easter
cumplir con Pascua
Pascua de Pentecostés Pentecost; Whitsun; Whitsuntide
Pascua de Resurrección Pascua florida Easter
3
Pascua de los hebreos Pascua de los judíos Passover
4
de Pascuas a Ramos once in a blue moon
estar como unas Pascuas to be as happy as a lark
hacer la Pascua a algn (molestar) to annoy sb; bug sb (familiar); (perjudicar) to do the dirty on sb
¡que se hagan la Pascua! (España) they can lump it!
y santas Pascuas and that's that; and that's the lot

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