pescuezo
- Examples
Tienes a toda la ciudad por el pescuezo. | You got the city by the seat of the pants. |
Lo agarra por el pescuezo y lo acerca a un león. | It took him by the neck and put it closer a lion. |
Una palabra más, y te arrancaré el pescuezo por intimidar a un testigo. | One more word, I'll collar you For intimidating a witness. |
Como el pescuezo de un pavo. | It's like a turkey giblet in there. |
Quizá nos salve el pescuezo a todos, a menos que tengas un plan mejor. | It might save the rest of our necks, unless you have a better plan. |
Si lo vuelves a hacer, iré y te rebanaré el pescuezo mientras duermes. | If you do that again, I'll come and cut your throat when you're asleep. |
Los yacarés, para adornarse bien, se habÃan puesto en el pescuezo un collar de plátanos, y fumaban cigarros paraguayos. | The alligators, to adorn themselves well, had put a necklace of bananas round their necks, and they smoked Paraguayan cigars. |
Está claro que no dejar escapar el poder era ya necesario, aunque solo fuese para salvar el pescuezo de los propios bolcheviques, pues su derrumbamiento habrÃa significado su muerte. | Of course, to hang on to power was already necessary if only to save the Bolsheviks' own necks, for their overthrow would have meant their deaths. |
El hombre seguÃa dándole vueltas agarrándole por el pescuezo, primero hacia un lado y luego hacia el otro, para que todos tuvieran oportunidad de cascarle. | The man continued spinning him round, holding him by the scruff of his neck, first one way and then the other, so that everyone would have a chance to clobber him. |
¡Cuán-lejos estaban estos caballeros de pensar que, a los pocos meses de ocurrir esto, estallarÃa la revolución que habÃa de llevarlos cogidos por el pescuezo, a ponerse al frente del Poder! | These gentlemen were far from thinking that in a few months the revolution would seize them by the scruff of their necks, and put them in power. |
Ahora tienes que destripar el pollo y quitarle las patas y el pescuezo. | Now you have to gut the chicken and remove its legs and neck. |
SÃ, lo que me gustarÃa hacer es retorcerle el pescuezo. | Yeah, what I'd like to do is wring his neck. |
SÃ, lo que me gustarÃa hacer es retorcerle el pescuezo. | Yeah, what I'd like to do is wring his neck. |
Frente: Buen ancho entre los ojos ligeramente rematados hacia el pescuezo. | Forehead: Good breadth between the eyes tapering slightly towards the poll. |
Los tipos como tú no se juegan el pescuezo por nada. | Guys like you don't stick their necks out for nothing. |
Si pudiera, le retorcerÃa el pescuezo con mis propias manos. | If I could, I would twist his neck with my bare hands. |
Le retorcerÃa el pescuezo con mis propias manos. | I would twist his neck with my bare hands. |
Mac, agárralo por la cabeza y tuercele el pescuezo. | Mac, grab it by the head and wring its neck off. |
¡Haz lo que digo o te rompo el pescuezo! | You do what I say, or I'll break your neck! |
Y yo preferirÃa que no me retorcieras el pescuezo. | And I'd rather not be put in a sleeper hold. |
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