snarl 30136

snarl 1 (snärl)
v. snarled, snarl·ing, snarls
v.intr.
1. To growl viciously while baring the teeth.
2. To speak angrily or threateningly.
v.tr.
To utter with anger or hostility: snarled a retort.
n.
1. A vicious growl.
2. A vicious, hostile utterance.


gruñido

cack·le 30135

cack·le (kkl)
v. cack·led, cack·ling, cack·les
v.intr.
1. To make the shrill cry characteristic of a hen after laying an egg.
2. To laugh or talk in a shrill manner.
v.tr.
To utter in cackles: cackled a sarcastic reply.
n.
1. The act or sound of cackling.
2. Shrill laughter.
3. Foolish chatter.

latch 30134

latch (lch)
n.
1. A fastening, as for a door or gate, typically consisting of a bar that fits into a notch or slot and is lifted from either side by a lever or string.
latch (lch)
n.

If the billions that go up in smoke for this on an annual basis were used for renewable energies, maybe we would not have any energy problems at all a

If the billions that go up in smoke for this on an annual basis were used for renewable energies, maybe we would not have any energy problems at all any more and we would certainly be a major step further forward in terms of CO2 reduction

i told you so 30132

te lo avise

Get a toehold 30131

Get a toehold

Definition: To begin a relationship with a person or company

I got a toehold at Smiths and Sons.
He's trying to get a toehold with Jason.

ki·net·ic 30130

ki·net·ic (k-ntk, k-)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
2. Relating to or exhibiting kinesis.

Charge it to the dust and let the rain settle it. 30129

Charge it to the dust and let the rain settle it.

Rur. Do not expect to be paid for this. (A humorous answer to a question like, "Who is going to pay for this?") Tom: Who's going to pay me all that money you owe? Mary: Charge it to the dust and let the rain settle it!
.

poise 30128

poise 1 (poiz)
v. poised, pois·ing, pois·es
v.tr.
To carry or hold in equilibrium; balance.
v.intr.
To be balanced or held in suspension; hover.
n.
1. A state of balance or equilibrium; stability.
2. Freedom from affectation or embarrassment; composure.
3. The bearing or deportment of the head or body; mien.
4. A state or condition of hovering or being suspended.

on the cusp (of something)30127

on the cusp (of something)
Fig. at the point in time that marks the beginning of something. The transistor was on the cusp of a new age in electronics.

We are on the cusp of a moment of development or betrayal.

have a blast 30126

have a blast
Inf. to have a great time; to have a lot of fun. The food was good and we had a blast. Thanks for inviting us to the party.

We had a blast, learned some stuff, and shopped 'til we dropped

I want to enjoy myself, to have a blast, he says also admitting that he feels like a child before the Dakar.

astounding confidence 30125

astounding confidence

confianza asombrosa


However, there are many people now who have such astounding confidence issues that could very well ruin their lives.

foot-in-mouth disease 30124

foot-in-mouth disease
the tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. I suffer a lot from foot-in-mouth disease. Well, Ralph has foot-in-mouth disease again.

pound of flesh 30123

pound of flesh
Fig. a payment or punishment that involves suffering and sacrifice on the part of the person being punished. (*Typically: give someone ~; owe someone ~; pay someone ~; take ~.) He wants revenge. He won't be satisfied until he takes his pound of flesh.

One hand washes the other 30122

'One hand washes the other'

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This idiom means that we need other people to get on as cooperation benefits us all.

weak at the knees 30121

weak at the knees
if someone goes weak at the knees, they feel as if they might fall down because they have a sudden strong emotion about something or someone The very thought of jumping out of an aircraft with a parachute made him go weak at the knees. He was so gorgeous, I felt weak at the knees every time he spoke to me.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.30120

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

'Skunkworks 30119

'Skunkworks'

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An unauthorised, or hidden program or activity, often research-oriented, and out of the bureaucratic chain of command is known as a

tilt at windmills 30118

tilt at windmills
Fig. to fight battles with imaginary enemies; to fight against unimportant enemies or issues. (As with the fictional character, Don Quixote, who attacked windmills.) Aren't you too smart to go around tilting at windmills? I'm not going to fight this issue. I've wasted too much of my life tilting at windmills.

Sharp cookie 30117

Sharp cookie'

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Someone who isn't easily deceived or fooled is a sharp cookie.

sprat to catch a mackerel 30116

Nouna sprat to catch a mackerel

One may sacrifice something of little value in the hope of gaining something better

There's the rub 30115

There's the rub. (old-fashioned) also Therein lies the rub. (old-fashioned)
something that you say when you are explaining what the difficulty is in a particular situation You can't get a job unless you have experience. And there's the rub - how do you get experience if you can't get a job?

wear sackloth and ashes 30114

If someone displays their grief or contrition publicly, they wear sackcloth and ashes.

a wake-up call 30113

a wake-up call (American & Australian)
an event that warns someone that they need to deal with an urgent or dangerous problem (often + to do sth) The 1971 earthquake was a wake-up call to strengthen the city's bridges. (often + to ) The World Trade Center bombing has served as a wake-up call to the FBI on terrorism.

solas review 30112

Fernandez, Antonio Dechent


The title speaks volumes about each character's deeply entrenched emotional state in "Solas," a soul-clenching Spanish import dominated last year's Goya awards (the Spanish Oscar).

"Solas" translates as "alone," and it's a story about a bitterly estranged mother and daughter, forced back into each other's lives by the hospitalization of their hateful husband/father.

Maria (Ana Fernandez), whose life is filled with anger and alcohol, escaped her loveless, farm country home and moved to the city as soon as she was of age, after coming to despise her parents through a history the movie only hints at. She is alone because her entire personality is a defense mechanism. Through an adult life of hardship, she's learned to distrust everyone, and she won't let the people who really do care about her anywhere near her heart.

Her weary, withered and aged mother (Maria Galiana) is alone in her own heart as well after a lifetime of holding her tongue around her choleric, belittling husband -- whose heart attack has landed him in a hospital near their daughter's slum-bordering apartment building.

While Maria refuses to visit her ailing father, she begrudgingly feels obligated to take her mother in until her parents can return to the country. The climate between the two women is instantly acrimonious. But slowly, tentatively, they begin to set aside their practiced antagonism and repair the lines of communication in their relationship.

The driving force of this film is the soul-level sadness in the profoundly affecting performances of Fernandez and Galiana. Fernandez roots around in the daughter's damaged psyche, finding both her darkest and most vulnerable places, humanizing this fatigued woman's bitter, hardened surface. Galiana depicts the depth of the mother's loyalty, her complacency to an unhappy marriage and her oblivious ability to push her daughter's buttons -- interfering in the younger woman's life when she only means to help wash away the overwhelming misery she sees in Maria's face.

Together they subtly portray a lifetime of barriers built between them and hint at regrets they both hold but refuse to acknowledge.

Beautifully written and directed with sublime finesse by Benito Zambrano -- who makes his feature debut -- "Solas" is not a movie that turns warm and fuzzy in the last act with epiphanies or apologies. It has a much more slight and delicate character arc that sees mother and daughter beginning a long process of warming toward each other and possibly discovering better lives in the process.

They are also both moved by separate, tentative relationships with Maria's downstairs neighbor (Carlos Alvarez-Novoa), a desperately lonely old man who becomes attached to the mother. The time the elderly new friends spend together sees the mother blossom anew, but this becomes another point of strife when she goes to the hospital and her husband becomes enraged, saying he can smell another man on her.

Zambrano's resourceful direction gives "Solas" an economic elegance with powerful moments like the scene in which Maria visits a free clinic to schedule an abortion after being thrown over by her low-life lover. She scans the eyes of the other women in the waiting room -- a pregnant teenager with an indignant mom, a woman beaten black-and-blue -- then runs outside, where she slowly breaks down as a train passes.

Zambrano positions the camera on the opposite side of the tracks, focusing on Maria's face -- which is exposed in flashes between the train cars -- as she disintegrates from a small tear into emotionally draining wails.

It's an incredible shot, indicative of the kind of raw-nerve sentiment that pulses through this potent, poignant, honest and outstanding film.

'Wedge politics' 30111

'Wedge politics'

In wedge politics, one party uses an issue that they hope will divide members of a different party to create conflict and weaken it.

Labor's Aboriginal wedge politics have split the Liberals, embarrassed their leader and divided him from his numbers men and the former ...

'Sputnik moment' 30110

'Sputnik moment'

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A Sputnik moment is a point where people realise that they are threatened of challenged and have to redouble their efforts to catch up. It comes from the time when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, the Sputnik 1, and beat the USA into space.

row·dy 30109

row·dy (roud)
n. pl. row·dies
A rough, disorderly person.
adj. row·di·er, row·di·est
Disorderly; rough: rowdy teenagers; a rowdy beer party.

tapped out 30108

A 'tap' is what you use to make liquid flow from its source. 'Tapped out' means that there is nothing left to flow.


2.Tired, exhausted.

When 'tapped out' is used to describe a person, it means that the person has no more energy to spend of flow.
1) I'm tapped out, so I can't go to the movies tonight.

at long last 30107

at long last
After a lengthy or troublesome wait or delay: At long last the winter was over

tar somebody with the same brush 30106

tar somebody with the same brush
to believe wrongly that someone or something has the same bad qualities as someone or something that is similar (usually passive) I admit that some football supporters do cause trouble but it's not fair that we're all being tarred with the same brush


medidos por el mismo rasero

one-night stand 30105

one-night stand
1. Lit. a performance lasting only one night. The band did a series of one-night stands down the East Coast. You can't make a living doing one-night stands.
2. Fig. a romance or sexual relationship that lasts only one night. It was not a romance, just a one-night stand. It looked like something that would last longer than a one-night stand.

Hole In My Soul 30104

Hole In My Soul
AEROSMITH
"Hole In My Soul"
I'm down a one way street
With a one night stand
With a one track mind
Out in no man's land
(The punishment sometimes don't seem to fit the crime)


Yeah there's a hole in my soul
But one thing I've learned
For every love letter written
There's another one burned
(So you tell me how it's gonna be this time)


Is it over
Is it over
'Cause I'm blowin' out the flame


Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who turns the knife inside of me
Take a look and you will find there's nothing there girl
Yeah I swear, I'm telling you girl yeah 'cause
There's a hole in my soul that's been killing me forever
It's a place where a garden never grows
There's a hole in my soul, yeah I should have known better
'Cause your love's like a thorn without a rose


I'm as dry as a seven year drought
I got dust for tears
And I'm all tapped out
(Sometimes I feel broke and can't get fixed)


I know there's been all kinds of shoes underneath your bed
Now I sleep with my boots on but you're still in my head
(And something tells me this time I'm down to my last licks)
'Cause if it's over
Then it's over
And it's driving me insane


Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who turns the knife inside of me
Take a look and you will find
There's nothing there girl yeah I swear
I'm telling you girl, yeah,
'Cause there's a hole in my soul
That's been killing me forever
It's a place where a garden never grows
There's a hole in my soul
Yeah, I should have known better
'Cause your love's like a thorn
Without a rose


Is it over
Yeah it's over
And I'm blowin' out the flame


Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who turns the knife inside of me
Take a look and you will find
There's nothing there girl yeah I swear
I'm telling you girl, yeah,
'Cause there's a hole in my soul
That's been killing me forever
It's a place where a garden never grows
There's a hole in my soul
Yeah, I should have known better
'Cause your love's like a thorn
Without a rose

There's gotta be a hundred reasons why I don't blow you away. Right now I can't think of one.30103

There's gotta be a hundred reasons why I don't blow you away. Right now I can't think of one.

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'Till the pips squeak' 30102

'Till the pips squeak'

If someone will do something till the pips squeak, they will do it to the limit, even though it will make other people suffer.

on the never-never 30101

on the never-never (British humorous)
if you buy something on the never-never, you pay for it in regular, small amounts over a period of time Buy something on the never-never and you end up paying twice as much.

fear of commitment 30100

Fear of commitment in much popular literature refers to avoidance of long-term partnership and/or marriage but the problem is often much more pervasive, affecting school, work, and home life as well.

so do i 3099

a mi tambien

I like the rainy days.
- So do I.

Panera Cares and So Do I.

so as to 3098

so as to
In order to: Mail your package early so as to ensure its timely arrival

fin de, a fines de, para; Sinónimos: in order to, to; In order to.
He observed the snakes so as to describe their behavior.

In order to, as in We took off our shoes so as to avoid scratching the newly finished floors. This idiom is always followed by an infinitive. For a synonym, see in order to, def. 5.

SOUND SILENCE 3097

Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools" said I "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grow
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence





ALBUM: Sounds of Silence

on the cutting room floor 3096

on the cutting room floor
not included Some real ballplayers were used in the movie's baseball scenes, but they ended up on the cutting room floor. In the rush to finish this session, legislators left some very important bills on the cutting room floor.

Lady Bountiful 3095

Lady Bountiful
a woman who enjoys showing people how rich and kind she is by giving things to poor people
Usage notes: Bountiful means generous.
I've got a lot of clothes that they might make use of but I'm worried they they might see me as some sort of Lady Bountiful.

lost sheep 3094

oveja descarriada

trafucked 3093

trafucked 4 up, 2 down
buy trafucked mugs, tshirts and magnetsTo get caught in traffic when you are already late.
Me: "Sorry I'm late, I got totally trafucked on the way here."
Boss: "You should leave earlier to avoid being trafucked next time

'Trade barbs' 3092

'Trade barbs'

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If people trade barbs, they insult or attack each other.

Jackson’s parents trade barbs over son’s death

'Well-oiled machine' 3091

'Well-oiled machine'

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Something that functions very well is a well-oiled machine.

Thank God I'm an atheist 3090

Thank God I'm an atheist.
Luis Bunuel

somebody gets religion 3089

somebody gets religion
someone's behavior suddenly changes because of a better understanding of something After the attacks, the administration suddenly got religion about tracking down terrorists' bank accounts

'Under a flag of convenience 3088

'Under a flag of convenience'

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If a ship sails under a flag of convenience, it is registered in a country where taxes, etc, are lower than in the country it comes from, so if someone does something under a flag of convenience, they attempt to avoid regulations and taxes by a similar means.

be with child 3087

be with child (old-fashioned)
to be pregnant Emily was unable to make the journey, being heavy with child

shake the foundations of something 3086

shake the foundations of something
to cause a person or organization to question the truth of something it strongly believed For a time his grief over his son's death shook the foundations of his religious faith.

'On the up and up' 3085

'On the up and up'

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Meaning 1:
If you are on the up and up, you are making very good progress in life and doing well.

rump session 3084

rump session
a meeting held after a larger meeting. A rump session continued after the meeting was adjourned. A lot of business was conducted in the rump session.

shot in the arm 3083

shot in the arm
1. Lit. an injection of medicine. The doctor administered the antidote to the poison by a shot in the arm.
2. Fig. a boost or act of encouragement. The pep talk was a real shot in the arm for all the guys. The good test grade was a shot in the arm for Gary.

pay top dollar 3082

pay top dollar (American)
to pay a lot of money for something Investors can expect to pay top dollar for the stock

trim (oneself) down 3081

trim (oneself) down
to take action to become slimmer or lose weight. I need to trim myself down before I go on vacation. I decided to trim down, but I never got around to it. You really need to trim down and stay at a lower weight.
See also: trim

fum·ble 3080

fum·ble (fmbl)
v. fum·bled, fum·bling, fum·bles
v.intr.
1. To touch or handle nervously or idly: fumble with a necktie.

Turning the other cheek 3079

Turning the other cheek is a phrase in Christian doctrine that refers to responding to an aggressor without violence. The phrase originates from the Sermon on the Mount in the New Testament.

In the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew

hung up 3078

Anxious; nervous: He got hung up on the details. She was all hung-up before the interview.

darn 3077

darn 1 (därn)
v. darned, darn·ing, darns
v.tr.
To mend (a garment, for example) by weaving thread or yarn across a gap or hole.
v.intr.
To repair a hole, as in a garment, by weaving thread or yarn across it.
n.
A hole repaired by weaving thread or yarn across it: a sock full of darns.

go up in smoke 3076

go up in smoke
if a plan or some work goes up in smoke, it is spoiled or wasted Then his business went bankrupt and 20 years of hard work went up in smoke.

a cool head 3075

a cool head
the ability to stay calm and think clearly in a difficult situation These are high pressure situations and you have to keep a cool head.

man of the cloth 3074

man of the cloth
n. pl. men of the cloth
A clergyman

On the hoof 3073

On the hoof
If you decide something on the hoof, you do it without planning, responding to events as they happen

'On the hoof'

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If you decide something on the hoof, you do it without planning, responding to events as they happen.

Polishing peanuts' 3072

Polishing peanuts'

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To work very hard at something for little or no return. In other words, wasting time on work which will not yield reasonable value.

mud·sling·ing 3071

mud·sling·ing (-sliŋ′iŋ)

noun

the practice of making unscrupulous, malicious attacks against an opponent, as in a political campaign

'More than you can shake a stick at' 3070

If you have more of something than you can shake a stick at, then you have a lot.