byword

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byword
[ˈbaɪwɜːd]
sustantivo
también:
  • to be a byword for… -> ser sinónimo de…

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byword [bai-ued]
sustantivo
1Locución, persona, etc., que ha llegado a ser objeto de irrisión o escarnio.
2Apodo, mote.
3Dicho trillado.
  • To be a byword for something -> ser sinónimo de algo
  • By-your-leave -> -s
Without so much as a by-your-leave, sin (ni) siquiera pedir permiso.

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byword [ˈbaɪwɜːd]
noun
1 sinónimo; (m)
his name is a byword for success su nombre es sinónimo de éxito
2 (slogan) palabra de moda; (f)
Loyalty, support and secrecy became the bywords of the day As one banker confided to an interviewer, the slogan `Christmas money" gets 'em by the hundreds and the thousands. Gets 'em in a way that thrift or poverty or security and the rest of those bank-advertising bywords can't begin to touch

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