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Phrasebook sentences (adjectives), you include your accepted phrase!Más agarrado que puerta de submarino.

Phrasebook sentences (adjectives), you include your accepted phrase!Más agarrado que puerta de submarino.

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Let's start on adjectives, I will think of a few in Spanish and you should supply the most idiomatic translation in English.

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Expression of the day:

Más agarrado que puerta de submarino.

agarrado = mean, stingy; here it is a word game, as agarrado also means "hold tightly, tightly closed"wink

Supply an idiomatic phrase in English with the same beginning and/or add your own if you wishwink

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updated May 16, 2010
posted by 00494d19

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Tighter than a safety vault. Tighter than Paris Hiltons jeans.

Mas aggarado que una caja de seguridad . Mas Aggarado que los pantaloons de Paris Hilton.

updated May 16, 2010
posted by SELWICH425
lol, a safety vault! great - 00494d19, May 15, 2010
I liked this one, selwich, submit to phrasebook: más agarrado que...(example sentence) - tighter than....(example sentence) - 00494d19, May 16, 2010
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Más aggarada que la bolsa de Scrooge.

Esa mujer no quiere pagar por nada; es más aggarada que la bolsa de Scrooge.

(Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol - I'm not quoting Dickens, just identifying to whom my particular Scrooge refers.)

updated May 15, 2010
edited by Delores--Lindsey
posted by Delores--Lindsey
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Wound up tighter than... (I think this is how the expression begins in English)

...a ball of string

...a clock

...Fort Knox (This would be my pick of the three)

updated May 15, 2010
edited by danrivera
posted by danrivera
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tightwad = a stingy or miserly person

He's so tight he squeaks when he walks. (A favorite phrase of my grandmother's)

updated May 15, 2010
posted by LaBurra
Tightwad... yes, good one. - danrivera, May 15, 2010
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What does "you fly is opem"

updated May 16, 2010
posted by Rey_Mysterio
Your fly is open. - Rey_Mysterio, May 16, 2010