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brazo
masculine noun
1. arm (de persona, sillón); foreleg (de animal)
- paseaba del brazo de su novio -> she was walking arm in arm with her boyfriend
- agárrate de mi brazo -> hold onto my arm
- cogidos del brazo -> arm in arm
- en brazos -> in one's arms
- con los brazos abiertos -> with open arms
- echarse en brazos de alguien (figurative) -> to throw oneself at somebody
- luchar a brazo partido -> to fight tooth and nail (con empeño)
- quedarse de brazos cruzados (figurative) -> to sit back and do nothing
- no dio su brazo a torcer -> he didn't budge an inch, he didn't allow himself to be persuaded
- ser el brazo derecho de alguien -> to be somebody's right-hand man ((f) woman)
- brazo de gitano -> swiss roll (British), jelly roll (United States)
2. branch (de árbol, río, candelabro); boom, jib (de grúa)
- el brazo político de ETA -> the political wing of ETA
3. hand (trabajador)
4. (geography)
- brazo de mar -> arm (of the sea)
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brazo [brah-tho]
noun
1. Arm, anatomically from the shoulder to the elbow. (m)
2. Bough of a tree. (Metaphorical) (m)
3. Valor, strength, power. (Metaphorical) (m)
4. Each end of a beam or balance. (m)
- Brazo de dirección -> steering arm
- Brazo de gitan -> (Culin.), Swiss roll
- Ir del braz -> (LAm.), to walk arm-in-arm
- Mover algo a brazo -> to move something by hand
- Brazo d -> una trompeta, branch of a trumpet
- Brazo de silla -> arm of a chair
- Con los brazos abiertos -> with open arms, cheerfully
- Cruzados los brazos -> with the arms folded, idle
- Ser el brazo derecho de alguno -> to be one's right hand, or confidant
5. Brazos (fig.) Hands, workers (trabajadores). (m)
By extension, arm of a lever, of a balance beam; each half of a yard. etc. 2. The correlative limb in some of the inferior creatures.
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