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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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