Idioms (SP En)

SPANISH IDIOMS
WITH THEIR
ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS
EMBRACING NEARLY
TEN THOUSAND PHRASES
COLLECTED BY
SARAH GARY BECKER
FEDERICO MORA
BOSTON
PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY
1887
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1886, by
SARAH GARY BECKER AND FEDERICO MORA,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at
J. S.
Gushing
Si
Co
Printers,
Washington.
Boston.
PREFACE.
ENGLISH
is
the native tongue of one of the compilers of this collection
of idioms, Spanish that of the other, and each of them

languages.
An
value have been attained.
idiom
is
effort
familiar with both
a phrase stamped by the usage of
a language with a signification other than
Our
is
Only by such co-operation could results of any considerable
has been to bring together as
its
grammatical or logical one.
many
of the idioms to be
met
with in literary and conversational Spanish as possible, but not to include

the technical phraseology of the professions and trades, or
These
are not always easy to draw.
lines
often appear in very light literature, most of which
be
set
down
in a technical dictionary.
following pages.
The more
hand, seldom makes

excluded.
The
its
way
distinction
or less
certainly also
may be found
such
is
We
in literature,
also far
in the
on the other
into belles-lettres or into conversation,
between admissible
upon circumstances.
though they appear
Many
would
abstruse terminology of the law,
and downright vulgarisms
ology,
mere vulgarisms.
Nautical terms, for example,
and
is
slang, or homely phrase-
from sharp, and depends more
have omitted
some
phrases which,
have no business there.
Many
of the
idiomatic phrases are proverbs, but proverbs not containing idioms are
excluded.
The method employed
in compilation
was as follows
" El Novisimo
"
Diccionario de la Lengua Castellana, por una Sociedad de Literates
is founded upon the
Academy's Dictionary, with additions), and
Nuevo Diccionario IngleVEspanol, y Espanol-Ingle's, por J. M.
(which
" El
Lopez, E. R. Bensley, y otros," were carefully read through from beginning

to end,
and the numerous idioms cited
were extracted.
Much
in illustration
of the use of words
material has also been obtained from grammars,
Knapp, H. M.
including those of Professors Alberto de Tornos,
W.
Monsanto, and Louis A.
from Bohn's Spanish
Languellier,
as well
as
I.
PREFACE.
Don
Proverbs.
late
Quixote, in several editions and translations (including the
translation with critical
list
of proverbs by John Ormsby, London,
1885), and Gil Bias have been carefully studied;
were made
in
reading
many
other works
finally,
and notes of idioms
memoranda were kept
such as occurred in conversation during a period of two years.
means cannot be
the
English,
exhaustive, but
we
believe that few
phrases have escaped
or valuable
object was
first
to
important,
In rendering the idioms into
us.
make
common,
their
meaning
intelligible
many
Renderings found
a simple translation.
adopted only when
it
pithiness of the original
seemed impossible
in
to
is
previous
Commander Henry
Our
is
the
Every
placed under that verb, while the verbs them-
selves are arranged alphabetically.

ticular
for
as far as
can be effected with material of so heterogeneous a character.
idiom containing a verb
has
it
United States Navy,
examining and improving the translations of the nautical phrases.

The arrangement of the work is intended to facilitate reference
this
by
publications were
improve upon them, and
Glass, of the
in
best retained
been found necessary to correct many downright errors of translation.

thanks are due to
the
second, to give equivalent English idioms where such could be found

cases, however, the
of
These
Where
the idioms containing a par-
verb are numerous, they have been classified into natural groups,
members of which
The idioms
are mutually illustrative, or deal with similar ideas.
containing verbs
form the
first
and
larger portion of the
Those which lack a verb are comprised in a second division,

which the most emphatic or most important word in each phrase is
collection.
in
taken as the basis of their alphabetical arrangement.

series are
added
we
Finally,
idioms
will
difficulties
Indices to each
as a further aid in the search for a given phrase.
hope that this collection of

mastering one of the greatest
believe ourselves justified in the
prove a very important
aid in
which the Spanish language presents.

S. C. B.
F.
M.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
IDIOMS CONTAINING VERBS.
Quien mucho abarca poco
Ni te abatas por pobreza,
aprieta.
Grasp
ni te en-
Do
all,
lose
all.
not be humbled by poverty, or
exalted by wealth.
melt a heart of stone
salces por riqueza.

Ablandar las piedras.
To
to inspire
great pity.
To bring the guns to bear (mil.).

To enter the mouth of a channel.
The sun scorches.
To be burning hot./
To be inflamed with passion.
Abocar la artilleria.
Abocar un estrecho.
El sol pica, 6 abrasa.
Abrasarse los pajaros.
Abrasarse vivo.
Muchas
hijas
Abrazar
el
en casa, todo
se abrasa.
est6mago alguna cosa.

Abriguese V. con ello.
Al buen dia abrele la puerta, y para
el
malo
te apareja.
Many daughters are expensive.

To keep a thing on the stomach.
Defend yourself with
Make hay
prepare for a rainy day.

spring a leak.
Abrir, 6 abrirse una entrada de agua.
To
La madera
The wood cracks.

To make a breach
se abre.
Abrir brecha en un muro.
Abrir
el ojo.
En un
abrir
y cerrar de
ojos.
el dla.
Abrir la corona.
Abrir
in a fortress.
To lay a foundation to begin.

To open trenches to begin a siege.
To be on the alert.
Abrir las zanjas.

Abrir trincheras.
Abrir
it.
while the sun shines, but
las velaciones.
In the twinkling of an eye.
To dawn.
To shave the tonsure.
To permit the issue
of
marriage
licenses (granted only at certain
seasons)
Abrir paso.
Abrirse las cataratas del cielo.
Abre
el
tiempo.
Abrir los ojos & uno.

Abrirse con alûno.
Abrir puerta a
la puerta.
To clear the way.

To rain heavily to pour.
The weather clears up.
To undeceive to open one's eyes.
To disclose one's secrets to any one.
To afford an opportunity.
;
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Abre
el
Abrir
el
ojo que asan carne.

coraz6n d alguno.
Abrir la mano.
Abrir
la
mano
Abrir
la
cabeza.
Abrir
las carnes.
al caballo.
Abrir la procesi6n.
Abrir d chasco.
Abrir tanto ojo.

Abrir registro.
Absolver
las
Absolver de
preguntas.
la instancia.
Abundar en su
Improve the opportunity.
To encourage a person.
To accept bribes.
To give rein to a horse.
To break one's head.
To cut the flesh with a whip.
To lead a procession.
To jest to mock.
To stare with joy.
To begin to take in cargo (nau.).
To answer questions.
To pardon a criminal.
To adhere to one's opinion.
sentido.
Aburrird mil pesos en esta
flota.
this
Acabar con
el
convoy.
To make an end
negocio.
Acaba ya
Es cosa de nunca acabarse.
Determine
At
ese paso no acabards nunca.
Acaba de
El tapete
le
salir
acab6 con cuanto posefa.
this rate
of an
resolve
an endless
It is
He
llegar.
Estd acabado de
a thousand dollars in
I will hazard
affair.
affair.
never
will
you
finish.
has just arrived.
from
It is fresh
He
lost all
he possessed at the gam-
ing-table.
El pleito
le
acab6 de tronar com-
The
lawsuit ruined
him completely.
pletamente.
La
vela se estd acabando.
Al acabar
Se acab6
la vida.
el siglo
para
1.
mal que hoy acaba, no es

remedio el de mafiana.
Para
el
Los
valientes y el buen vino duran

poco, 6 se acaban pronto.
The candle is flickering.

At the moment of death.
He
has departed this
avails little for
to-day's misfortune ; apply your

remedy before it is too late.
Rash courage and good wine are

soon ended those who love peril
;
will try
Acabados son cuentos.
life.
To-morrow's remedy
There
is
it
once too often.
an end to
it
i.e.,
the con-
versation or dispute.
Acabar 6 adobar los guantes.

Lo que no acaece (6 sucede, 6 se
hace) en un ano, acaece en un rato.
Aceptar una letra.
Aceptar personas.
To
regale and remunerate a person.

That which a year does not bring
us,
To
To
moment may.
accept a
bill
of exchange.
favor particular persons.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Achicar
bomba.
la
compadre, y llevar&s
Achicad,
la
To pump the water from

Very much exaggerated.
a ship.
galga.
Aclaradselo
teneis la
Aclarar
vos,
compadre,
boca a mano.
que
To
ask foolish questions on pretence
of not understanding.
To
la voz.
clear the throat.
Not
Acodillarse con la carga.
be able
to
to
fulfil
one's engage-
ments.
Acogerse a
To
las aras.
take refuge.
rat6n en mi agujero, y volAcogi

vi6seme heredero.
Do
lest
he may
Acometer con
To try to bribe a person.

When two cowards fight,
he who
al
De
dinero.
ruin a ruin quien acomete, vence.
not trust any one
turn traitor.
attacks conquers.
Tiempos hay de acometer, y tiempos

de
Acomodarse
There
a time to attack, and a time
is
to retreat.
retirar.
al
To be
tiempo.
content with the present state
of things.
Acordarse del tiempo del rey que

rabid, ser una cosa del tiempo de
That
a very old
is
story, or thing.
rey que rabi6, 6 del rey que rabi6
por gachas.
Acordarse 6 estar de acuerdo con
To
close, or agree with one.
uno.
Acordarse remotamente.
To have
No
Those who
se acuerda el
Cura de cuando
fu6 Sacristan.
Acordar
los
instrumentos musicos a
a confused recollection.
attain prosperity often

the
forget
day of small things.
To tune instruments.
las voces.'
El buey que
lugar
En
me
me
acorn6 en buen
ech6.
tierra ajena, la
vaca
al
buey acor-
nea.
la bal-
anza.
Quien con ninos
ten leads to good.

Helpless people are often insulted
To
To
think better of
fall
on
ance)
se acuesta, sucio se
levanta.
Acostarse con las gallinas.
me into
evil of-
by their inferiors.
Pinched with hunger.
Acosado de hambre.
Aconsejarse mejor.
Acostarse la balanza, 6 caer
that gored me threw

a better place ; apparent
The ox
it.
either side (said of a bal-
Those who
trust
incompetent per-
sons will suffer for
To go
to
it.
bed with the chickens,
early.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Acustate
amancerds
sin cena, y
sin
Go
deuda.
Acotome d Dios
to bed supperless, and you

wake without debt.
commend myself to God.
Acotar estorbos.
To
avoid obstacles.
Los acreedores me acribillan.

Acudi6 al cuero con el albayalde,
que los afios no se van en balde.
My
creditors torment me.
She
paints,
Acudir
al
Hermano ayuda y cunado
acuna.
reach one's goal.

hoard up money.
Brothers- and sisters-in-law are
ways
To
Acusar 4 muerte.
conceal her
tries to
age.
To
To
reclamo.
Acunar dinero.
and
will
al-
at variance.
charge a person with a capital
crime.
Acusar d pena.
Acusar 6 argiiir
j
Adelante con
conciencia a uno.
la
la cruz
To
To
file
feel
a complaint.
remorse.
Fonvard with the cross
to persevere
No
no ganar un palmo
en algun negocio.
adelantar, 6
de
tierra
Adelantar
como
el
Not
To
cangrejo.
to
an
we
resolve
advance a
hair's
breadth in
affair.
retrograde.
(To advance
like
crab.)
La verdad
adelgaza, pero
no quie-
The
may be hidden for a time,

sure to be divulged.
leave toothing stones or bricks
truth
but
bra.
is
Adentellar una pared.
To
Adivinar, 6 ver por tela de cedazo.
To
Adivino de Valderas, cuando corren
Wonderful discovery, that when
by which
las canales
que
se
mojan
to continue a wall.
take a prejudiced view; to be

biased.
it
pours the paths are wetted.
las car-
reras.
Adivino de Marchena que el sol

puesto, el asno d la sombra queda.
Wonderful discovery, that when the

sun has
set,
the
donkey
is
left in
the shade.
Administrador que administra, y enfermo que se enjuaga, algo traga.
Money
Quien no adoba 6 quita gotera, hace
casa entera.
Bienes mal adquiridos d nadie han
is apt to stick to the fingers

of trustees.
remedy,
in order to
be
enriquecido.
Afanar, afanar, y nunca medrar.
Afanarse por nada.
effectual,
should be applied promptly.

Ill-gotten gains never prosper.
Much toil and

To fidget.
little profit.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
La mujer
del ciego para ^qui^n se
For
whom
man
afeita?
la camuesa (6 cereza)
mal
se afeitan.
su
por
Aficionarse con exceso a ...
La mujer y
does the wife of the blind
dress?
Powder and paint
are
worn
to con-
ceal defects.
To
give one's
mind
to ...
Afilar el ingenio.
Very fond of the bottle.

To make a great effort for a special
Afilar las unas.
To make an
Muy
aficionado a Baco.
purpose.
Aflojar la cuerda; 6 aflojar al arco
to
intelligent effort;
sharpen one's
wits.
To
stop working for needful rest.
To
rest or refresh one's self
la cuerda.
Aflojar el animo.
by enter-
tainment.
To
To
To
To
Aflojar las riendas.

Aforrar una casa.
Aforrar un cabo.
Agarrarse
d'e
un
pelo.
relax watchfulness or authority.

ceil
a house.
serve a cable (nau.).
support an opinion
an excuse
Agarrarse
a,
To
6 de, buenas aldabas.
to furnish
to 'split hairs.
avail one's self of
an
influential
protector.
To
Agarrarse de un clavo ardiendo.
no
me
however
To weary
la paciencia.
Si la vista
a red-hot nail
agrada, no
me
any
to
tu ano.
one's patience.
If the appearance does not satisfy
aconsejes nada.
Grano a grano agrega para
to take
dangerous,
accomplish one's object.

To discuss a question warmly.
Agitarse una cuesti6n 6 negocio.
Agotar
seize
means,
me, you cannot persuade me.

little every day amounts to much
in a year.
To be
mecha, 6 el pujo.
La ocasi6n no aguarda.
Aguantar
la
patient
Time and
to resign one's
tide wait for
Aguzar
el ingenio,
Aguzar
las orejas.
To
To
Aguzar
los dientes.
To whet
the appetite.
Nothing
is
vista.
sharpen the
prick up
self.
no man.
wit, or sight.
the
ears
to
listen
intently.
Piedra sin agua, no aguza
la
el
vino.
To
be gained without the
los odios.
To
and grow ropy (applied
turn,
wine)
Ahogar
to
use of proper means.
fragua.
Ahilarse
en
forget enmities.
to
SPANISH IDIOMS,
10
Ahogarse
el
The
grano.
is
grain
smothered
by the
weeds.
To be
Ahogarse de gente.
Ahorcar
j
oppressed, overheated, by the

crowd.
To abandon the clerical

Hang me if I do it
los hdbitos.
Que me ahorquen
si
lo
Ah6rrese V. palabras.
No ahorrarse con nadie
hago
Spare yourself the trouble of talking.

;
ni
con su
To be
thoroughly inconsiderate of
others.
padre.
Ahorrar para la vejez, ganar un

maravedi, y beber tres.
Ahorra palabras
!
Ahuyentar
profession.
los pajaros,
las
moscas.
La miseria ahuyenta amigos.

Ajar la vanidad a alguno.
Ajustar a uno la golilla.
To spend beyond
one's means is a
bad preparation for old age.
Obey, without farther excuse
To scare away the birds, or flies.
!
Poverty parts friends.
Alabar sus agujas.
To humble a person.
To oblige one to do his duty.
To act conscientiously.
To praise one's own merchandise.
To praise one's self.
Cada
Each crow
Agitarse con su conciencia.

Alabar sus agujetas.
ollero alaba su puchero.
thinks
its
own young
the
whitest.
,jPor ventura habra quien se alabe

que tiene echado un clavo a la
Who
can boast of having arrested

wheel?
fortune's
rodaja de la fortuna?
i
Alabo
el
gusto
Quien no se alaba, de ruin

Es para alabar a Dios.
se muere.
Alabaos, coles, que hay nabos en
la
admire your
taste
(ironical).
Diffidence does not prosper.

It is a glory to God.
reproach to those
who
are unrea-
sonably desirous of being preferred
olla.
to others.
Alambicar
los sesos.
Alamparse por riquezas.

Allanar la casa.
To
To
To
cudgel one's wits.

thirst for riches.
enter the house forcibly, with a
search warrant.
Allanar el camino.
To
pave the way to obtaining some-
thing.
Alargar la mecha.
To
a
Alargar
la cura.
Alargar la bolsa.
protract a negotiation; to raise

salary.
To
prolong a negotiation
sake of profit.
To
for
the
prepare for some great expenditure.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Alargar los dientes,
dientes largos.
los
poner
la piel.
Alarg6
un navio.
Alastrar
Alborotar
Ni
To show
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the teeth.
He
gave up the ghost.
To
To
ballast a ship (nau.).
disturb the neighborhood.

Neither believe nor disbelieve blindly.
la calle.
te alborotes, ni te enfotes.
Alcanzar de alguno.
Alcanzarsele poco a alguno.
Asno con oro alcanzalo todo.
To
To
Alcanza quien no cansa.

Alcanzar a uno de razones.
He who
upon any one.

be of weak understanding.
Even a fool, if rich, can get what he
prevail
wants.
To
does not
tire
achieves.
get the better of another in argu-
ment.
Mis posibles no alcanzan d
eso.
Alcanzar a ver.
Alcanzar en dias.
El remedio no alcanz6 a curar
la
My
means are not equal
To
To
descry.
live long.
This medicine does not reach the
enfermedad.
root of the
Caballo que alcanza, pasar querria.
to that.
evil.
A person whose aspirations are
never
satisfied.
No
alcanzaran galgos.
le
Scoicjijcousinship
a very distant
relationship.
Cada uno
alega en derecho de su
dedo.
his
own
To snuff the candles.

To show gladness in one's eyes.
To dress very lightly.
To make a horse move lightly and
Alegrarsele a uno los ojos.

Aligerarse la ropa.
un
Aligerar
for
interest.
las luces.
Alegrar
Every one looks out
caballo.
freely.
Alindar
el
ganado.
Alinearse los soldados.
Alotar
las anclas.
un
Alquilar
cuarto
assistancia, 6 sin
Alquil
alhajado
con
ir al
drive cattle to pasture.

into line (mil).
stow the anchors (nau.).
let, a furnished room, with or
fall
without board.
ella.
un sim6n para
To
To
To
To
paseo.
I hired
a hackney-coach to go to the
fashionable drive.
Alterar la
moneda.
Alzar un entredicho.
Alzar figura.
Alzar los ojos, 6 las manos.
Alzar
el
dedo.
To debase the coinage.

To raise an injunction.
To assume an air of importance.
To raise the eyes or hands.
To raise the forefinger in asseveration or affirmation.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
12
Alzar 6 levantar
To show one's self proud or arrogant.

To be elated with pride.
To set the sails (nau.).
To defraud.
To run the first furrows with the
el gallo.
Alzar la cresta.
Alzar velas.
Alzarse con algo.
Alzar el rastrojo.
plough.
Alza y baja de los fondos publioos.

Alzar las eras.
Alzar
el
con
can act
gano.
el
santo, y
of public securities.
Alzarse a mayores.
Alzar alguna cosa.
con
fall
To be petulant.
To lay away anything.
To abscond with money
Alzar 6 levantar pendones.
Alzarse
and
pierdo ni
precio.
ni
rise
To finish the harvesting of grain.

To raise the price.
To proclaim a king.
To pardon an exile.
To proclaim loudly to make public.
He who is not hampered by affairs
Alzar 6 levantar rey, 6 por rey.

Alzar el destierro.
Alzome a mi mano,
The
la
li-
mosna.
freely.
agua.
Alzar cabeza.
To
To
To
Alzar los naipes.

Alzarse 6 levantarse con el dinero.
To cut the cards.

To win all the stakes
Quien bien ama, tarde olvida.
He who
Amagar y no
To
Alzar la obra.
Alzarse
entrusted
to one's care.
el
stop work.
stop raining.
recover from a calamity or dis-
ease.
tal
hora
amanezca
is
in gambling.
slow to forget.
threaten, but not strike.

Is this the dawn of day for you
dar.
te
loves truly
(said to
one who comes
an appointment)
shines on the
late
to
Cuando Dios amanece, para todos
The sun
Dios amanezca a V. con bien
Yo amaneci en Madrid, y anocheci
God
I
was
en Toledo.
Por mucho madrugar, no amanece
It
mas temprano.
Arreboles
just
and on
the unjust.
aparece.
al
oriente
ciente.
in
Madrid
happy morrow
at dawn, and in To!
ledo at twilight.
dawns none the sooner because
we
agua amane-
give you a
rise early.
red sky in the morning indicates

rain.
Amaestrar un caballo.
To
Quien feo ama, hermoso le parece.

Quien ama el peligro, perece en el.
Love
break in a horse.
is
blind.
He who loves danger will
perish by
it.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Entre tanto que
en pasando
cria,
el
amamos
al
provecho,
ama,
We
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cling to those
whom we
need.
luego
olvidada.
Cada dia gallina, amarga

La verdad amarga.
la cocina.
Constant repetition wearies.

truth may be bitter to the
The
evil
doer.
To polish needles.
To lose one's presence of mind.
To keep one in possession of prop-
Amoldar las agujas.

Amontonarse el juicio.
Amparar en
la
posesi6n.
erty.
Amusgar
To
las orejas.
listen
to prick
up one's
ears.
El tiempo anda.
El reloj 6 el molino anda.
Time flies.
The watch
Los planetas 6 las maquinas andan.

Andar 6 estar por las nubes el mar.
El carro no anda.
Planers or machines move.

The sea runs mountains high.
or the mill goes.
The wheels
are clogged
the busi-
ness does not prosper.
Andar con las cruces a

Andar estaciones.
To
To
cuestas.
pray to God.
pray at certain shrines in order
to obtain indulgences.
Ir
6 andar
las estaciones.
Tornar a andar
las estaciones.
Andar al uso.
Andar en coplas.
Andar en palmas.
Andarse
por
las
margenes, 6
las
To mind one's own business.

To return to one's evil habits.
To conform to the times.
To be very well known.
To be universally applauded.
To beat about the bush not
;
come
ramas.
Anden y tnganse.
Andar de rama en rama.
Andar en retrucanos.
Andar en coplas, 6 de boca en boca.
Andar triste, 6 alegre.
Andese la gaita por el lugar.
to
to the point.
To play fast and loose.

To dwell upon unimportant details.
To play upon words.
To be the town talk.
To be sad, or merry.
of no consequence
It is
do not
care.
Andar de una camada.
Like seeks
No
No
Do
ande V. en cumplimientos.
andar en dengues.
se
Camino de Santiago, tanto anda

cojo como el sano.
Andar como el cangrejo.
Not
el
like.
not stand upon compliments.

to
Good
mind
trifles.
pilgrims
accommodate
pace, and arrive together.

To go backward, like a crab.
their
SPANISH IDIOMS.
14
Quien anda entre
la miel, algo se le
Andar de zoco en colodro

Her6des a Pilatos.
Andando el tiempo.
Andar con dilatorias.
6 de
pitch
without
el
mundo
de
barrio.
To
al rave's.
divertido.
las
manos en
escape
and
Scylla
into
fall
waste another's time with
false
promises.
be on the same story (of rooms).
reverse the order of nature.
por hacer, 6 decir una cosa.
con
To
Charybdis.
In the course of time.
Estar a un andar.
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
You cannot touch

being defiled.
pega.
la cinta.
To
To
To
To
To
thing.
be engaged in love affairs.

Not to have anything to do.
To
de Zeca en Meca.
wear a simple dress.

be about to say or do a
rove about
from Dan to Beer-
sheba.
Andar de aca para
alia,
para
To be
a vagrant.
aculla.
To stroll and wander about.

To go here and there to be
Andar a la flor del berro.

Andar de bardanza.
unset-
tled.
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
a la gandaya, 6 trastejando.
la ciudad.
con
el
hato a cuestas.
a la balda.
arrastrando.
a la briba, 6 a la sopa
6 an-
To
To
To
To
To
To
wander, gad, or roam.

scour the city.
lead a
nomadic
life.
lead a vagabond
life.
live in misery.
beg.
dar buscando.
Andar a
tres
menos
cuartillo.
Andar, quedar, 6 estar a
la cuarta
To be
To be
very short of anything.

utterly destitute of funds.
pregunta.
Andar de
pie"
quebrado.
To be in
increasingly narrow circum-
stances.
Andar tentando.
To grope where we
make
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
a tientas, 6 a ciegas.
a sombra de tejado.
a monte.
aperreado.
de nones.
Andarse a picos pardos.
Andar a
grilles.
efforts
or
cannot see
to
trials.
To grope in the dark to fumble.

To hide to skulk to abscond.
To skulk to lurk in hiding-places.
To be harassed, or fatigued.
To be idle.
To follow idle pursuits to loiter.
To waste time in useless pursuits.
;
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To
To
Andar a la tuna.
Andar manga por hombro.
15
play truant.
be very careless
domestic
in
af-
fairs.
Andar por
i
Ande yo
To
su cabal.
caliente,
riase la
gente
If I
live selfishly.
am
comfortable, what care I for
ridicule
To be
overheated.
Anda
He
a bad walker.
Andar a tatas, 6 a gatas.

Andar sin sombra.
Andar balando por alguna
To walk timidly to creep.

To crave to desire anxiously.
To long anxiously for something.
Andar 6 venir con un palmo de
len-
gua.
mal.
A
A
cosa.
At best ; at most.
At worst.
andar.
mayor
is
peor andar.
Quien mal anda, mal acaba.

Quien con lobos anda, a aullar
se
He who
He who
to
ensefia.
howl
rupt
To
To
To
To
To
To
Andar 6 estar en la danza.

Andar en malos pasos.
Andarse tocando
tabletas.
Andar como ardilla.

Andar 6 ir de capa caida.
Andar en balanza.
lives
ill,
dies
lives with
evil
ill.
wolves
will learn
communications cor-
good manners.
be implicated in an affair.
be in a bad way, as to conduct.
be disappointed.
be as active as a
squirrel.
be" crestfallen.
be in danger of losing property

or place.
To go out without an outside gar-
Andar en cuerpo.
ment.
Andar con mosca.

Andar de puntas.
No
andar en contemplaciones.
Andar 6 estar torcido con alguno.
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
en
quintillas.
a capazos.
en puntas.
al
pescuezo.
en dimes y diretes.
en dares y tomares.
Andar a mia sobre tuya;

zarpa;
6 andar
al
6 a
la
morro, 6
al
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
fly
into a passion.
be on bad terms
be
at
enmity with some one.
seek dispute or quarrel.

quarrel
and
fight.
seek a quarrel, mutually.

take another by the throat.
dispute and quarrel.
contend
come
to dispute.
to blows.
pelo.
Andar a tr6mpis.
to quarrel.
have recourse to harsh measures.
To come
to fisticuffs.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
16
Andar en cuentos.
Andar a punaladas, 6 a cuchilladas.
Quien anda al reves, anda el camino
el
knives.
road must
make his journey twice over.

The devil is abroad i.e., disputes
dos veces.
Andar
To come to loggerheads.
To fight with poniards or
He who takes the wrong
diablo suelto.
and
Andar el diablo en cantillana.

Andar d la que salta.
Andar en opini6nes.
ill
feeling prevail.
Disturbances or dangers are
To go to the dogs.
To throw a doubt upon
rife.
a person's
credit.
Andar a malas.
Andar en gerigonzas.
Andar a coz y bocado.
Anda con mil Santos
To go away in enmity.
To quibble to cavil
To play roughly.
;
noramala
i
Anda 6
Anda
anda
Be
off
with you
Be
off
to evade.
vete a
freir
esparragos
go away
Expression of approval, or great dis-
pleasure.
i
Anda a pasear
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
with you
out of my sight
To act cautiously and justly.
To pursue a thing successfully.
To do things quickly.
To proceed with the greatest cir-
Away
con un ten con
ten.
de ganancia.
en un pi.
con pies de plomo.
cumspection.
Andar 6
estar
de
To be
priesa.
in haste
to
be much occu-
pied.
Andar con reserva.

Anda el hombre a
To
trote
por ganar
proceed cautiously.
will work hard to secure a
A man
comfortable living.
su capote.
Aquel va mas sano, que anda por
el
Of two ways choose
the safest.
llano.
Entre bobos anda
el
juego.
La rueda de
la Fortuna anda mas

una
rueda de molino.
que
Andando gana la hazena, que no
lista
estandose queda.
Andar
;
Anda
listo
into the
hands
faster
The
affair
mill
Andar en pretensiones.
Mai me andaran las manos.
by going, not by
still.
active or diligent.
Be quick
To
has
gains
standing
To be
listo.
come
of experts.
The wheel of Fortune goes
than a mill-wheel.
This
make
haste
seek office importunately.
If nothing prevents, I will
do
it.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
To strive for a thing.

To go in pursuit of anything.
To make essays or trials.
To follow a person to go in pursuit.
To have charge of a lawsuit.
To undertake the charge of a case
por una cosa.

a caza de alguna cosa.
tentando.
tras alguno.
por
17
el pleito.
un negocio.
or business.
Andar a caza con hur6n muerto.
To
undertake
business
without
adequate means.
To act prudently.
To go to work frugally.
To have no fear.
To conform one's self to
Andar prudente.
Andar, 6
ir
a la ahorrativa.
Andar sin recelo.

Andar con el tiempo.
the times
to be a time server.
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
con cuidado.
6 estar hecho un negocio.
6 estar holgado.
alguna cosa
muy
tirada.
To be
To be
To be
To be
careful.
very busy.
well provided for.
difficult to find
to
be sold
dear.
To
Andar a caza de gangas.
Ande
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
Andar
de ganancia.
con zapatos de
fieltro.
a las bonicas.
con
cara descubierta.
la
a derechas.
a caza.
cazando.
a
try for a sinecure.
Noisy mirth and
la loza.
la gineta.
Andar, 6 verse en
los
cuernos del
bull
toro.
Andarsele a uno
Andar, 6 estar
el
jollity.
To pursue things successfully.

To proceed with caution and silence.
To take things easily.
To act openly.
To act honestly.
To go hunting.
To hunt to seek.
To go at a short trot.
To find one's self on the horns of the
la
To
cabeza.
mundo
al reves.
to
be
imminent danger.
in
have vertigo
to
become
dizzy.
Sometimes the world seems topsyturvy.
Quien no pueda andar, que
corra.
To command
difficult things to
one
who cannot do
Andarse en
(lores.
Andarse a
la flor
car la
flor
No anddmos
charras.
del berro
6 bus-
To
To
easy ones.
decline entering into a debate.
give one's self
up
to pleasure.
del berro.
en chancharras man-
Let us not use subterfuges or evasions.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
18
Andar como
el
corcho sobre
como
el
corcho por
ir
el
el
agua
To
be always ready to follow the

opinion of another; to be like
agua.
a cork on the water.
Quien anda a tomar pegas, toma

unas blancas y otras negras.
La verdad siempre anda sobre
como
mentira
It
la
Truth always
get exactly what
we
above falsehood
rises
as oil rises above water.
aceite sobre el
el
difficult to
is
want.
agua.
Andar, comer, 6 meterse de gorra.
To go
to meals
other people's
at
houses without invitation.
Andar en mangas de camisa.

Bueno anda el ajo
!
To be
in one's shirt-sleeves.
fine state
of things, to be sure
(ironical).
Cuando
la
anda a caza de
zorra
mal para
grillos,
ella,
The
and her young must be
fox
badly off when she goes hunting
y peor para
sus hijos.
for crickets.
El mentir y el compadrar, ambos

an dan a la par.
False
A mas andar.
Andar en buena vela.
Andar todo.
Andar a sombra de tejado.
Andar con pie's de mar.
At
El poco andar del barco.
The
Anhelar honores.
To
friends
to
try
outwit
each
other.
full
speed (nan.).
To be under full sail (nau.)-.

To put up the helm (nau.).
To be under the hatches (nau.).
To have one's sea legs (nau.).
slow way of the ship (nau.).
aspire to honors.
Al anochecer.
At
Anochecerle a uno en alguna parte.
To be
nightfall.
in
a place at nightfall
to
be
benighted somewhere.
Anochecer, y no amanecer.
Antojarsele a uno alguna cosa.
Anudar
los labios.
Anudarse
la voz.
To disappear furtively.
To desire or judge thoughtlessly.
To keep silence., -A. b~H*- <^^=>
Inability to speak,
consequent upon
excitement.
Anadir fuego a fuego, 6 levantar
Apagar
Apagar
To add
fire
to
flame
to
foment
difficulties or quarrels.
fuego.
la cal
6 azogar
la cal.
la voz.
To slack lime.
To deaden the sound
of an instru-
ment.
Apag6se
el tiz6n,
y pareci6 quien lo
encendi6.
Apagar
el
hambre.
When
the quarrel
tor appears.
To
satisfy
hunger.
is
over, the instiga-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Apagar 6 matar la sed.
Una y otra gota apagan
la sed.
19
To quench
the
Continual
dropping
thirst.
wears
away
stone.
Apalabrarse de sed.
el dinero, los
Apalear
doblones, 6
el
To suffer great thirst.

To amass money to be
los
excessively
oro.
rich.
bobos se
les
aparece
la
madre
dunce may have good
luck.
de Dios.
Aparentarse, 6 apartarse del derecho.
Eso lo apartara, 6 acabara la pala y
el azad6n.
grano de
el
Apartar
Apasionarse de
Apear
la paja.
Apearse por la cola 6 por

Apear una caballeria.
las orejas.
Aparear un tiro de caballos de coche.

Apelar el enfermo.
Apellidar libertad.
no
es
combatido.
me
apesta con su afectaci6n.

La traici6n place, mas no el que la
Fulano
hace.
Aplicar
To
that.
between what
distinguish
el rio.
Castillo apercibido,
cancel a claim or debt.
Death only can cure
portant and what

To dote upon
To
is
not
is
im-
so.
To ford the river.

To give an absurd answer.
To hopple a horse, or mule.
To match a set of horses.
To escape death from sickness.
To proclaim liberty.
Forewarned
is
forearmed.
He disgusts me with his affectation.

Men love the treason, but not the
traitor.
el
oido.
Aporrearse en
la jaula.
Apostar carreras.
Apostarlas, 6 apostarselas.
Aprender de cabeza, 6 de memoria.

En barba de necio aprenden todos a
To listen.
To engage in fruitless toils.
To run races.
To contend to defy.
To learn by heart.
On a fool's beard all learn to
;
shave.
rapar.
Lo que
se
aprende en
la
cuna, siem-
pre dura.
la
mano.
Apretar
la
cuerda.
is
learned in childhood
is
never
forgotten.
To attack a person.
To blame or punish severely.
To draw the reins tighter (of
Apretar con uno.

Apretar
What
law or
discipline).
Apretar hasta que
salte la cuerda.
To
urge a person
till
tience.
Apretar a uno la nuez.

Apretar 6 levantar los talones.
To
To
strangle a person.
take to one's heels.
he loses pa-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
20
Apretar un caballo.
Apretar a correr.
el
Apretar
paso.
Apretar 6 picar de
soleta.
el
argumento.
Apretar a alguien con fuertes raApretar
To
To
To
To
To
To
spur a horse.
start off running.
hasten.
run away.
press vigorously by argument.
press with urgent reasons.
zones.
Mucho
This witness
aprieta este testigo.

los
Apretar
punos.
Aprovechar
la ocasi6n.
Aprovecharse de la ocasi6n.
El hijo que aprovece, a su padre
To
To
To
is
significant.
exert one's utmost efforts.
by the occasion.
profit
catch the ball on the rebound.
Like produces
like.
parece.
<i
Que aprovecha
candil sin
mecha ?
What
the use of a candle without
is
a wick ?
The day
el dia.
Apunta
Su barba, 6 bozo, apunta.
breaks.
His beard, or moustache, begins
to
grow.
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
Apuntar una herramienta.

Apuntar.
la
Apuntar
ropa.
Apuntar en
el teatro.
los vegetales.
Apuntar
Apuntar y no dar.
Apuntar una cosa.
Apuntar a un bianco.
Apuntar de memoria.
point a tool.
write shorthand.
sew pieces together
be washed.
to
at the theatre.
prompt
grow up.
promise readily, but not perform.

touch slightly on anything.
aim
sit
at
a mark.
down
without money, to gam-
ble.
He
El discipulo se esta apurando.

Apurar una noticia.
The pupil studies diligently.

To know something thoroughly.
apurado todos los recursos, y no

he podido conseguirlo.
Apurar
la
copa del dolor hasta
las
have exhausted every resource, and

could not succeed.
To
heces.
drain the cup of misery to the
dregs.
Verse apurado.
To be
Me
apurado, 6 en apuros.
Apurar a uno.
vi
in difficulties.
was embarrassed.
To
tease,
perplex,
or
angry.
Apurar
Apurarse.
Apure V. que es tarde
i
To
To
la paciencia.
exhaust the patience.
be grieved
Hurry
it is
late
to worry.
!
make one
SPANISH IDIOMS.
mucho
cosas
las
Quien
apura,
no
tiene vida segura.
Aranar
21
Those who meddle with other people's affairs do not have an easy life.
To make great exertions.

To gather riches.
To rejoice in the misfortunes
la cubierta.
Aranar riquezas.
Aranarse con los codos.
of
others.
Arana ,;quien
como
te
aran6? otra arana
yo.
El gato de Mari-Ramos halaga con

la cola, y arana con las manos.
Arar con
man's enemies are generally of
own trade.
One who flatters another
to injure
To
el ancla.
Ara con ninos, segaras
with intent
a hypocrite.
drag the anchor (nau.).
Experienced labor
codillos.
his
is
cheapest in the
end.
Ares 6 no ares, renta me pagues.

Are mi buey por lo holgado, y
Rent must be
el
tuyo por lo alabado.

enjuto, 6 por mojado, no
besaras a tu vecino el rabo.
Ara por
Land
An
is
no crops.
paid, crops or
much improved by
fallowing.
industrious person does not
need
to beg.
To
To
Arbolar con caida.
Tal buque arb61a tantos palos.
give the masts a rake (nau.).

rear (said of horses).
Such a vessel carries so many masts.
La mar
The
Arbolarse.
arde.
Puede arder en un
candil.
It
sea sparkles.
would burn
in
a lamp (applied to
generous wine or
La provincia
Arderse en
se arde
en disturbios.
pleitos.
Arder en deseo de hacer una cosa.
Arder de impaciencia.
Ardiendo en c61era.
Argiiirle
Fuming with
pleito,
un
6 ruido.
lazo.
una
casa.
una cama.
los
remos.
traici6n.
caballero.
Armarse de paciencia.
la
mar.
is
brilliant
people).
greatly disturbed.
To be entangled in lawsuits.
To burn with desire to do a thing.
To burn with impatience.
To
a uno su conciencia.
Quien no se arriesga, no pasa

un caramillo.
Armar
Armar
Armar
Armar
Armar
Armar
Armar
Armar
The province
anger.
be pricked by one's conscience.
Nothing venture, nothing have.
To raise disturbances.
To stir up disturbances.
To lay a snare, or set a trap.
To raise the frame of a house.
To set up a bedstead.
To man the oars.
To conspire to plot treason.
To knight to prepare for war.
To arm one's self with patience
;
prepare to
suffer.
to
SPANISH IDIOMS.
22
Arco siempre armado, 6
flojo,
quebrado.
Armar en guerra.
Armar de punta en
bianco.
Armarla con queso.
Armar
cuenta.
la
Armarla.
Armar d otro.
Armar navio, 6 bajel.
Armar un baile, una fiesta, etc.
Con frac negro bien arma chaleco
The bow
To arm a merchant vessel.

To be armed to the teeth.
To decoy.
To make up accounts.
To cheat at cards.
To lend money to a friend.
To fit out a ship.
To prepare a ball, a feast, etc.
white waistcoat goes well with a
black coat.
bianco.
Arrancar de cuajo.
El buey viejo arranca
To
del
la gatufia
barbecho.
el
eradicate.
not well to despise old things,
It is
which may be better than new.
Arrancar a uno alguna cosa.

Arrancarsele el coraz6n a alguno.
Arrancar
forever bent must break.
el
alma,
coraz6n,
las
To obtain something by importunity.

To feel great sympathy for a person.
To be overwhelmed with grief or
entranas.
pity-
Arrancar 6 levantar
To
la casa.
quit a house
to break
up house-
keeping.
la espada.
Arrancarsele a uno el alma.
To
To
Arrancarse
The
Arrancar
el cielo.
unsheath the sword.

die broken-hearted.
clouds are dispersing.
Arrasarse los ojos de lagrimas.

Arrastrar los trabajos.
To weep bitterly.
To encounter fatigues, and bear them
Arrastrar 6 rodar coche.
To possess
To be old.
a carriage.
The storm
increases.
patiently.
Arrastrar los pies.

Arrecia la borasca.
Arreb6cese con
Arreglar
el
Let him keep
ello.
To
velamen.
Vieja escarmentada, arregazada pasa

el
Only
agua.
le
Quien
arriendo
la
presto
se
toda
determina,
My
I
ganancia.
presto se arrepiente.
Arriar un cabo.
Arriar las velas.
it.
sails (nan.).
fools fall twice into the
same
error.
Una vez que me arremangu,

me ensuci.
No
trim the
mas
bad luck
follows
me.
should not like to be in his shoes.
He who
resolves in haste repents at
leisure.
To pay out the

To take in sail
cable (nau.).
(nau.).
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Arriar la gavia.
Arriar la bandera.
Arriar banderas a
media
asta.
Arribar, 6 llegar a puerto de Salvamento.
Arribaos, torgado, que tras la cuesta
To
To
To
To
23
clew up the main-top-sail (nau.).

strike the colors.
put the flag at half-mast.

succeed in a difficult enterprise.
Work
courageously
rest will
come.
estd lo llano.
Arrimarse de gorra y mogolla.

Arrimarse a la candela.
Arrimarse a un partido.
Arrimar a uno.
Arrimar
los libros.
al punto de la dificultad.
Arrimate a los buenos, y seras uno
Arrimar
de
ellos.
To
To
To
To
To
To
depose one from
his office.
abandon a study.
come
to the point.
Consort with good people, and you

will become one of them.
To
Arrimarse a una persona.
act as a parasite.
approach the fire, or light.
side with a party.
place one's self under the pro-
tection of another.
Quien a buen arbol

sombra le cobija.
Arrimar una cosa.
se arrima,
buena
Arrimar 6 poner una cosa contra
He who
finds a
leans against a
good
good
tree
shelter.
To take something out of the way.

To push one thing against another.
otra.
Arrizar el ancla.
To approach the truth.

To espouse another's opinion.
To impute a crime.
To spur a horse.
To work with a will to lend a hand.
To abandon an official position.
To impose upon to deceive.
To house the guns (nau.).
To stow the anchor (nau.).
Arroj6melas y
We
Arrimarse a
Arrimarse
la
al
verdad.
parecer de otro.
Arrimarle a uno un delito.
Arrimar
las espuelas al caballo.
Arrimar
el
hombro.
Arrimar
el
bast6n.
Arrimar
el
clavo a uno.
Arrizar la artillera.
No
arroje'selas.
arroje'mos la soga tras el caldero.
had a violent
quarrel,
and abused
each other roundly.

Do not let us throw the rope after
the bucket.
Arrojar 6 echar por la ventana.

Arrojar de si.
Arrostrar los peligros, 6 la muerte.
Arrugar
la frente.
Asegurar
la
bandera.
To
To
To
To
To
squander, to waste.
send a person away angrily.
brave dangers, or death.
frown with anger, or

salute the colors
them.
fear.
when
hoisting
SPANISH IDIOMS.
24
Asentar casa.
To
Asentarse los licores.
The
Asentar
To step firmly.
To enlist in the army.
To agree to serve a person.
To bind one's self as apprentice.
To strike or punish any one.
To stop at a station for rest or food.
To set a thing aslant.
To establish one's character, or credit.
To finish the bout, and lay down the
el pie\
Asentar plaza.
Asentar con amo.
Asentar con maestro.

Asentar
la
mano, 6
Asentar
el
rancho.
Asentar en
el
guante.
falso.
Asentar bien su baza.

Asentar
la
Asentar
el juicio.
espada.
set
up housekeeping.
liquids settle.
sword (fencing).
To
begin being sensible and judi-
cious.
To
Aserrar a la berengena.
me
Ese hombre
cut across the grain.
That man vexes or worries
asesina.
me
to
death.
Asir la ocasi6n por la melena, 6 por
los cabellos.
To
Asirse de alguna cosa.

Asirse a las ramas.
To avail one's self of an opportunity.

To make frivolous excuses.
take time by the forelock.
Asirle por el rabo.
It is difficult to
Asir de la reja, del balustre.
To
quarrel
overtake a fugitive.
to pass
from words to
blows.
Asistir a
En
uno
casa del
To be
la raz6n.
oficial
mas no osa
asoma
el
hambre,
entrar.
Asosegarse uno en su caballo.
Asparse a gritos.
Aspirar d la mano de una mujer.
Atacar bien la plaza.
Atajar ganados.
Atajar
la tierra.
Loco de
Atarse
Ni
has a trade never need lack

means of livelihood.
To sit very firmly on horseback.
To hoot to cry out with vehemence.

To wish to marry a woman.
To eat a great deal.
To collect herds.
To reconnoitre the ground.
;
atar.
las
manos.
ata, ni desata.
right.
He who
fool or
To
To
tie
madman, needing restraint.

down by a promise.
one's self
talk at
random, without judg-
ment.
Quien bien
ata,
bien desata.
He who
hides knows where to find
fast bind, safe find.
Atar bien su dedo.

Atar
las
manos.
To
To
look out for one's
own
interest.
prevent a thing from being done.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
El cuerdo no ata
el
Atar por la cola.

Al potro y al mozo
No
wise man follows another's opinion blindly.

To put the cart before the horse.
saber a estaca.
el
ataharre
flojo,
bozo.
el
y apretado
Atar la lengua.
well governed.
la letra.
Atizar la lampara.
<
Pedro, porque atiza ? por gozar de

la ceniza.
olla
Colts and boys must be well fed and
To prevent a thing from being said.

To abide to remain in a place.
To keep to the letter of the text.
To raise the lampwick or, to refill
Atenerse a alguna parte.

Atenerse a
25
que hierve, nunca mosca se
atreve.
the glasses.
Why does Peter
sow? because he
hopes to reap.
Flies do not seek the boiling pot ;
evident destruction is not attractive.
Atrasado de noticias.
Ignorant of
No atravesar, 6 no pisar los umbrales.
Not
Atravesar
el
coraz6n.
Atravesarsele a
uno un nudo en
la
el caballo.
Avanzado de edad.
Stricken in years.
Aventarse
las carnes.
The meat
Aventarse
el
To
ganado.
no pasara
of vio-
la
law.
spoils.
run away frightened
pede
se aventura
not to
To move one to compassion.

To be speechless on account
To speak with a person.
To act in defiance of the
To overwork a horse.
Atropellar las leyes.
Quien no
things.
go into a house
darken one's door.
lent emotion.
garganta.
Atravesar con alguno una palabra.
Atropellar
common
to
to stam-
(applied to cattle).
Faint heart never
won
fair lady.
mar.
Rocin y manzanas
6 aunque se
aventuren, rocin y manzanas.
Averiguarse cpn alguno.

Avisar con tiempo, avisar anticipa-
To be
determined to do something,
happen what may.

To bring one to reason.
To
warn, or give warning.
damente.
Avivar
el ojo,
Avivar
el
A
A
6 los
ojos.
paso.
ayuda la fortuna.
quien madruga, Dios le ayuda.
los osados,
To be on one's guard.
To accelerate the pace.
Fortune favors the brave.
God
helps
selves
those
activity
cure success.
who
help
them-
and industry
se-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
26
Ayudate, y ayiidarte
ayude Dios
te
Mejor
Hermano
Trust to your own exertions, and

not to the help of others.
he",
I wish
you something better (answer to one who has said a mali-
ayuda, y cunado acufia.
cious or mendacious thing).

or brothers-in-law some-
Brothers
times disagree.
Ayudandose
tres,
para peso de
seis.
Ayudado por pobre.

al traspaso.
Ayunar
Three who help each other are as

good as six.
In forma pauperis (legal)
To fast from Holy Thursday to the
.
following Saturday.
fast after a good meal.
Ayunar despues de harto.

Harto ayuna quien mal come.
To
Azotar
el aire.
To
Azotar
las calles.
To lounge about the streets to idle.

To be exceedingly eager.
To be easily moved by affection or
bad meal
is
no better than
no purpose
act to
fasting.
to labor in
vain.
;
Bailar sin s6n.
Bailar a cualquier son.
passion.
Bailar al s6n que se toca.
Bailar el agua adelante.
Por el dinero baila, 6 salta el perro.

Por dinero baila el perro, y por pan,
si
who do not need

To have no money.
se lo dan.
Bailar el pelado.
Quien bien
baila,
To adapt one's self to circumstances.

To dance attendance.
Money makes the mare go.
Money is attractive even to those
de boda en boda
se anda.
Bailo bien y echaisme del corro.

Bailar el agua ; 6 bailar el agua de-
it.
Those who have some
special ac-
complishment like to exhibit it.

True merit is not always appreciated.
To
exert one's self to please a person.
To
cheapen.
Ian te.
Bajar
el precio,
6 la mano.
El precic baja.
The
Bajar los brios a alguno.
To mortify to humble.
To bow the head to humble
Bajar la cabeza, 6 la cerviz.
price lessens.
;
one's
self; to obey.
Bajar las orejas.

Bajar los ojos.
To
To
yield
cast
to
humble one's
down
the
eyes
ashamed.
Bajar
el
punto.
Bajar
el
punto a alguna cosa.
To temper.
To moderate
to lessen.
self.
;
to
be
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To decay
Bajar de punto.
Baja
el frio.
Baja
la calentura.
Bajar la
27
The
The
golilla.
Bajarse la sangre a los talones/6 a
to decline.
cold diminishes.
fever lessens.
To be
To be
pacified.
much
very
terrified.
los zancajos.
Bajar de ley
To alloy gold.
To drop down a river.
To go down to the garden.
To take up the cudgels.
To lay out the land.
el oro.
Bajar por un
rio.
al jardin.
Bajar
Bajar a la arena.
la tierra.
Bajar
El hijo de
la cabra,
de una hora a
A mean
otra bala.
self
To be
Banarse en agua rosada.
Banar
Banar
la luz
algun espacio.
el sol
algun espacio.
nature
sooner or
very
is
sure to betray
it-
later.
much
pleased
to look
through rose-colored glasses.

To be illuminated.
To
To
To
Barajar un negocio.
Barajar una proposici6n.
flood with sunlight.
entangle or confuse an
reject a proposal.
affair.
Barbeando.
Lying alongside (nau.).
Barrenar un navio.
To scuttle or sink a ship (nau.).

To blast a rock, or mine.
To rake a ship fore and aft (nau.).
To sweep the terre-plein (mil.).
Barrenar una roca, 6 mina.

Barrer un navio de popa a proa.
Barrer
el terraplen.
New brooms
P^scoba nueva barre bien.
Yo duena y vos
doncella
<:
quien bar-
sweep clean.
Each one must
re ra la casa ?
fulfil
the duties of
his position.
Al buen entendedor pocas palabras
word
to the wise
is
bastan.
Al hombre mezquino, bastatale un
Misers lament their expenses.
rocino.
To
Batirse en duelo.
;
Al hierro caliente batir de repente
Batir las olas.

Batir
moneda.
Batir el
campo, 6
Batir en brecha.
Batir banderas.
la
campana.
fight
a duel.
Strike while the iron
To
To
To
To
To
is
hot
ply the seas.

coin money.
reconnoitre the enemy's camp.
storm a fortress (mil.).

dip the flag in presence of au-
thorities (mil.).
Batir en ruina.
Batir la catarata.
To make a
To remove
breach (mil.).
a cataract from the eye.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
28
To
Batir el monte, el bosque.
beat
Batir el agua por la ventana.

El cierzo bate a Madrid.
Batir el cobre.
To
To
To
To
Batir los ijares, 6 las ijadas.
To
Beber
To
Batir la lana.
un
libro.
el pilon.
doctrina
Madrid.
press a
book
after printing.
pursue an enterprise with activity

interest.
wound a
horse
believe current rumors.
Said of a horse with a white mouth.
el
espiritu
To
absorb the doctrine or
spirit
of
another.
alguno.
Beber
at
hard for useful purposes.

shear animals.
spur a horse, or
with spurs.
Beber en bianco.
la
woods
the
toil
and
Beber
bushes,
The north wind blows
Batirse el cobre.
Batir
the
(hunting).
To throw water from the window.
las palabras,
6 acentos, 6 ac-
To
listen
with rapt attention.
ciones.
Beber palabra y semblante.
To
Beber
los vientos.
Beber
los sesos.
other carefully.
To solicit with much eagerness.
To bewitch.
Beber
el freno.
To
listen intently
or to serve an-
take the bit between the teeth

(horses).
Beber a bocados.
To
To
To
To
To
To
Sobre brevas, no bebas.

No bebas en laguna, ni comas mas
without a cup.
Do not drink after eating early figs.
Do not drink at a lagoon, nor eat
Beber a tragantadas.
Beber de codos.
Beber como una cuba.
Beber sobre tarja.
Beber de antun.
que una aceituna.
drink huge draughts.

drink at leisure and luxuriously.
drink like a
fish.
obtain drink on credit.
drink as often as invited.
drink from a fountain or stream
more than one
olive
(both are
unhealthy)
To obtain information at headquar.
Beber en
las fuentes.
Beber
pensamientos a alguno.
ters.
los
Es tan delgado que se puede beber.

Ya que no bebo en la taberna, hud-
gome en
Beber
ella.
fresco.
To
To
anticipate one's thoughts.

exaggerate the fineness of a thing.
He who cannot drink at the tavern
may at least sniff

To be tranquil.
the fumes.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Querer beber la sangre a otro.
Al pi del coco se bebe el agua.
Beber
por una persona.
los vientos
29
To
hate a person mortally.

Opportunities should not be lost.
To make love to a person assiduously.
Bendito sea Dios
Bendecir Dios a
j
Dios
te
las criaturas.
bendiga
Beneficiar
God
God blesses his creatures.
God bless and preserve you
To buy the commission of a
Praise be to
una compania de cabal-
captain
of cavalry.
To kiss the rod.
leria.
Besar
el azote.
Besar
la
Besar
la tierra
Besar
la correa.
Besar
el jarro.
mano, 6
To
kiss the hands or feet (expressions of regard or respect)
los pies.
que otro
To
pisa.
kiss the
ground another treads on
(excessive respect).
besar.
Manos besa
el
hombre que
quisiera
ver quemadas,
Birar de bordo.
Birar de bordo
tomando por
avante.
Birar para popa, para proa.

Birar por las aguas de otro bajel.
To be forced to submit to another.

To drink.
Home, or block and block (nau.).
To serve a person against one's will.
To tack, .or go about (nau.).
To work or beat to windward (nau.).
To heave astern or ahead (nau.).
To tack in the wake of another ship
(nau.).
Bira
Bira
Birar de bordo en redondo.
Birar el cabrestante.
Blasonar del arnes.
Heave
To
To
To
cheerily (nau.)
stand to leeward (nau.).
!
heave at the capstan (nau.).

boast of achievements never per-
formed.
Bornear
la
Bornear
las palabras.
verdad.
To
To
distort the truth.
distort
words to
different
mean-
ings.
El navio bornea.
The
Borrar
Borrar, 6 borrase de la memoria.
To
To
La ausencia
Out of
ship swings round her anchor
(nau.).
Botar
la plaza.
borra los recuerdos.
agua alguna embarcaci6n.

Botarse, 6 bajar, 6 caer el color.
Tal hora el coraz6n brama, aunque
la
al
lengua
calla.
To
To
abolish an office or position.

forget.
sight, out of
mind.
launch a ship.
fade.
not always prudent to express

our feelings.
It is
Sl'AXISII IDIOMS.
30
Arco que mucho brega, 6
el,
la
cuerda quiebra.
Bullirle d uno alguna cosa.
Excessive work destroys vigor.
To be
To be
To be
Bullirle los pies.
Bullir la sangre.
Tiempos hay de burlar, y tiempos

donde caen y parecen mal las
There
earnestly desirous of a thing.
crazy to dance.
vigorous and healthy.
is a time to jest, and a time
when
jests are unseasonable.
burlas.
Burlaos con
rabo en
el asno,
ddros ha con
el
Do
not jest with
fools.
la casa.
Burla burlando vase

Burlaos con
con vos en
el
lobo
al
asno.
loco en casa, burlara
el
It is
very easy to do what
you allow a
If
he
liberties in private,
la plaza.
we
like.
foolish person to take

will
take
the same in public.
Con
la
el
mujer y
dinero no te buries
Be
sensible
in
your treatment of
women and money.
companero.
Burla burlando hemos caminado ya
We
dos leguas.
Burla burlando consigui6 su empleo.
very pleasantly.
He obtained his office by his geni-
have accomplished two leagues
ality.
Buscar
el
Buscar a
vivo a una pieza de can6n.

tientas.
Buscar rodeos.
Buscar por todos lados.
Cada uno busca a los suyos.
el
pelo
al
take the caliber of a gun.
grope.
seek devious means.
hunt hither and yon.
Like seeks
He who
Quien busca, halla.

Buscar cinco pies al gato.
Buscar la paja en el oido.
Buscar
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
huevo.
like.
seeks, finds.
seek a quarrel.
seek occasion for quarrel.
seek frivolous excuses for quar-
relling.
To
Buscar a uno.
Al
hombre bueno no
le
busques
abolengo.
Buscar
la
pedigree.
muerte. ya que no
el
triumfo.
He
To
Goza de
mas el
The
poco, mientras busca
loco.
seeks for death, since he cannot
triumph.
earn one's own
Buscar la madre gallega, 6 irse con su

madre gallega ; 6 buscar la vida.
tu
one.
not inquire into a good man's
To foment disputes and disturbances.
la lengua.
El busca
irritate
Do
living.
avaricious waste
for riches
life in
striving
when they might enjoy
comfort in competence.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
son de parientes, busca que meri-
Do
endes.
pectation of help from others.

To look for better bread than ever
Buscar pan de
trastrigo.
El pez que busca
el
anzuelo, busca
does so to
To
Cabalgar a la gineta.
Todo cabe
It
Es cuanto cabe
Todo cabe en
No
No
No
not idle your time away in ex-
came of wheat.
The fish that dallies
su duelo.
31
ride with very short stirrups.
is
quite possible
too much
!
It is quite
He
fulano.
is
caber de pies.
caber mas.
To
caber de contento, 6 de gozo.
To be
No
No
caber
el
have no room to stand.
The
caber en
coraz6n en
el
el
pecho.
mundo.
caber duda.
Honra y provecho no caben en un
place
To be
is full.
very
much
pleased
very
overjoyed.
very
much
agitated, with sor-
row or anger.
To be inflated with pride.
No doubt can exist.
Honor and riches are seldom found
united.
saco.
No
capable of anything.
happy
No
with the hook
his sorrow.
caber en
He
si.
mi me cupo en
suerte venir a la
It
cannot contain himself.
was
my
lot to
come
to
America.
America.
Hueso que
con
No
En
te
cupo en parte r6ele
cabe mas.
casa del bueno,
el
ruin cabe al
caber en toda
Cabe de
No
la casa.
pala.
caber en
el pellejo.
Caer bien alguna cosa.

Caer en gusto.
Caer de su asno, de su burra.
Caer en la cuenta.
ills
patiently,
and
conquer them.
nothing more to be desired.

benevolent man
There
is
By the
fireside of the
the humblest
fuego.
No
Bear undeserved
strive to
sutil arte.
may
find
warmth.
To
quarrel with those who live in

the same house with us.
An
To
To
To
To
To
unexpected opportunity.
be very fat.
fit
to
be becoming.
become a favorite.
own one's error.
see the point
to correct one's
habits.
1 "
Trastrigo is an obscure word, but the application is unquestionably to seeking things
Don Quixote, translated by John Ormsby. London,
out of season, or out of reason."
1885, vol. 4, P. 386.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Ya
caigo en
6 en la cuenta.
ello,
I see
understand.
To dismount from one's hobby.

To fall on one's feet to succeed.
To fall backward.
To fall senseless or to lose one's
Caer de su borrico.
Caer de pie's.
Caer de espaldas.
Caer de su estado.
position.
To fall suddenly.
To fall down flat.
To sit a horse well.
To be situated on this
Caer de golpe.
Caer a plomo.
Caer bien a caballo.
Caer a esta parte.
No caer en la cosa.
Not
To
Caerse de sueno.
Las ventanas caen

Cae>sele a uno
la
al
Con
cara de vergiienza.
mes que
viene.
las orejas caidas.
Caer en falta.
Caer en culpa.
Caerle a uno en
El
el
Caer
el sol,
Your note
suerte.
The
The
el dia.
To
The
sol se deja caer.
Old
Caer en
gracia.
Caer de
la
To
To
gracia de alguno
en desgracia.
Caer en flor.
6 descornar la
flor.
Caerse de inanici6n.
Caerse a pedazos.
Le ha caido la loteria.
el moco a alguno
sabe quitarse los mocos.
Caer en el mes del obispo.
6 no
Caerse de animo.
Cadrsele
&.
uno
las alas del
coraz6n.
autumn.
heat lessens.
dark.
birds are not caught with chaff.
Easter
6 caer
sun, or the day, declines.
be intolerably hot.
Pajaro viejo no cae en el lazo.

La pascua cae en Abril.
Caersele
due next month.
fortress surrendered.
To be growing
las tejas.
la flor,
falls
At the close of the year
El
Caer en
the river.
To blush with shame.

The bill falls due.
Caerse, 6 asarse los pajaros.
Caerse
very sleepy.
To fail in one's engagement.

To commit a fault.
To fall to one's lot.
la hoja.
thing.
Disappointed.
castillo cay6.
Al caer de
feel
side.
comprehend a
The windows overlook
no.
El plazo cae.
Su pagare" cae en
to
falls in
please
fall
to
April.
become
a favorite.
in the estimation of
any one.
To die prematurely.
To detect a fraud in gambling.
To break down through weakness.
To walk with a shambling gait.
He has won a prize in the lottery.
To be a booby a fool.
;
To arrive in time for

To be dejected.
To be disappointed
a succession.
discouraged.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Caer en
To
color.
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fade.
El que hoy cae, puede levantarse

manana.
He who
Caer en mal caso.

Caerse de suyo.
To fall into bad repute.

To fall of itself.
To guess to imagine something.
To guess rightly.
To become ill.
To become one of a number.
To repeat a thing continually.
Caer en las mientes.

Caer en el chiste.
Caer en cama.
Caer debajo del numero.
No caersele a uno alguna cosa de
falls
to-day
rise
may
to-
morrow.
la
boca.
To
Caer 6 morir como chinches.

En el mejor pano cae una mancha.
die off in great numbers.
There
is
nothing free from imper-
fections.
Caerse
la
sopa en
This has succeeded beyond
la miel.
all
ex-
pectation.
To
Ca^rsele a uno la casa a cuestas.
Potros cayendo y mozos perdiendo,

van asesando.
Todo
En
da, 6 cae en el
dedo malo.
suffer a great calamity.

Misfortunes and hardships strengthen
the character.
Everything
arbol caido todas se suben a las
ramas.
falls
spot.
inspires conr
tempt.
Del arbol caido todos hacen lena

del arbol caido todos sacan
astillas.
When
the tree has fallen,
for firewood,
Caer de nota.
To
His fortune
soplos de la malignidad, cay6 su

fortuna.
Caer en
on the tender
Overthrown pride only
and even
it is
used
for chips.
give cause for scandal.

fell before the breath of
malignity.
anzuelo, 6 tragar el an-
el
To be
deceived
to
into a snare.
fall
zuelo.
Caer en
Caer en
el garlito,
Caer en
Caer en
el
6 en
la celada.
6 en
la ratonera,
la
trampa.
senuelo, en el lazo.
las garras
de alguno.
Caer en alguna cosa.
To fall into a trap.

To fall into a trap.
To fall into a snare.
To fall into the clutches of a person.
To -remember to find out about a
thing.
Caerse una cosa de
la
memoria.
Calar la cuerda.
Calar
el
can de un arma de fuego.
Calar la bayoneta.
Calar las picas.
Calar
el
puente.
To forget.
To apply a match to a firearm.
To cock a gun.
To fix the bayonet.
To set the lance in rest to poise.
To lower a drawbridge.
;
SPANISH IDIOMS.
34
To gauge a barrel or cask.

To try the ripeness of a melon by
Calar las cubas.
Calar
me!6n, 6 la sandia.
el
tapping.
Calar los pensamientos a alguno.
To
Calar la visera.
thoughts.
To close the visor of a helmet.
Calar
sombrero en
el
Calarse
el
Calar 6 tender
las aves.
las redes.
morro.
Calar
el
Calar
la sopa.
Calar
el
another
at
person's
To slouch the hat.

To pounce upon game.
To spread nets for fish.
To bow the head in anger or sadness.
To dip bread in broth.
To hang the rudder (nau.).
To draw so many feet of water
la cabeza.
halc6n sobre
guess
tim6n.
Calar tantos pies.
(nau.).
Calar
el
palo de un navio.
Calentar alguno
el asiento,
6 la
silla.
To step a mast (nau.).

To become tiresome by making
long a
To
Calentarsele a uno la boca.
too
visit.
speak incoherently from exces-
sive excitement.
To
Calentar a alguno las orejas.
chide or reprove a person se-
verely.
Calentarse
el
To grow warm
homo.
in conversation or
argument.
No
To
calentar el asiento.
retain
an
office
but for a short
time.
que
Let the giver be silent ; the receiver,

loud with gratitude.
tiempo de guerra ceden y callan
In time of war, laws lose their power.
Calle el que
y hable
di6,
el
tom6.
En
leyes y audiencias.
To
Callar su pico.
1
don't say so
Silence be quiet
Cortapicos y callares
Callen barbas, y hablen cartas.
!
Quien
hold one's tongue.
You
Calle!
calla,
(said to children)
Documentary evidence
bare assertion.
He who
piedras apana.
Callar y obrar por la tierra, y por la
is
listens carefully
better than
may
use or
repeat what he has heard.

To be silent and active in business.
mar.
Callarse,
callate
y callemos,
sendas nos tenemos.
Quien
calla, otorga.
que
He who
lives in
a glass house should
not throw stones.

Silence gives consent.'
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To nod
Otorgar de cabeza.
La mujer y
la pera, la
que
calla es
Silence
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assent.
is
very desirable in a
woman.
buena.
Calzarselas al reves.
To govern or manage a
To do just the contrary
Calzar ancha.
Not
Calzarse a alguno.
person.
of what one
should do.
Calzar espuelas
al
to be very nice or scrupulous.
To pursue
enemigo.
the
enemy with
the utmost
vigor.
get an employment.
Calzarse los guantes, 6 las espuelas.

Calzar un coche.
To
To
To
To
Calzar los arboles.
To
cover the roots of the trees with
Calzarse un empleo.
Calzar las herramientas.
put a steel edge on iron

put on gloves, or spurs.
tools.
put a brake on the wheels of a

coach.
earth.
To secure tables in
To wear shoes of a
To thrust the feet
Calzar las mesas.

Calzar tantos puntos.
Calzarse los estribos.
a fixed position.
certain size.
too far into the
stirrups.
The cannon
El can6n calza bala de a cuatro.
a four-pound
carries
shot.
To have little
To make use
Calzar pocos, 6 muchos puntos.

Calzar el coturno.
in poetry
Calzar
or
much
capacity.
of pompous language
to write a tragedy.
To
el ancla.
Las circunstancias cambian
los casos.
shoe the anchor (nau.).

Circumstances alter cases.
To change from one
Cambiar de mano.
side
to
the
other.
Cambiar 6
feriar
una cosa,
taz
por
taz.
To
barter evenly
to give
quid pro
quo.
Cambiar el seso.
Cambiar la comida, la peseta.
Cambiar las velas.
Caminar derecho.
Caminar de buena fe.
Caminar sobre un supuesto falso.
Camin6 seis leguas de una tirada.
To lose one's senses.

To be sick seasick.
To shift the sails (nau.)
To act uprightly.
To proceed with rectitude.
To act upon erroneous data.
He travelled six leagues
;
at
one
stretch.
Caminar por
Caminar con
sus jornadas.
pies de plomo.
To
To
proceed carefully
act with
thought.
judiciously.
prudence and
fore-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
36
Caminar a
la
To advance by
zapa.
sapping and mining
(mil.).
To be fortunate, or successful.
To act independently, without
Campar con su estrella.

Campar por su respeto.
as-
sistance.
Campear de
sol
To work
a sombra.
from morning
in the field
to night
to excel.
El abad de lo que canta, yanta.
The
Como
thereby earn his bread.

The sexton echoes the abbot (like
master like man)
canta
el
abad,
responde
el
sacristan.
who
priest
serves the altar
must
Cantar de piano.
To make
Quien canta, sus males espanta.
full
cheerful
confession.
lessens
spirit
many
troubles.
How
Lo digo cantado 6 rezado ?

Cantar
would you have
To be
la chicharra.
me
hot
scorching
say
it
(the
locust
sings).
Pajaro que sabe cantar, y no quiere

cantar, es menester hacerle cantar.
Al
Do
fin se
canta
la gloria.
Lo que ha de
cantar
buey, 6
el
el
carro, canta la carreta.
not triumph
The
To
To
To
To
Cantar a libro abierto.

la almohadilla.
Cantar 6 pintar con primor.

Ella cant6 prodigiosamente,
un
must be made
to sing.
over.
till all is
transgressor
is
the
first
to
com-
plain.
Cantar misa.
Cantar a
bird that can sing and wont sing,
como
say mass.
sing at sight.
sing without accompaniment.
sing or paint exquisitely.
She sang charmingly,
like
an angel.
angel.
Cantar mal y porfiar.

Cada gallo canta en su muladar.
To
chatter nonsense.
Every cock crows on
his
own dung-
hill.
Otro gallo
me
Under
cantara.
different
would
Al gallo que canta,
le
aprietan la
garganta.
Cantarle, 6 leerle, a uno la cartilla.
Si bien canta el abad,
zaga
Un
el
anima
no
le
va en
monacillo.
sola,
rri
Los dineros del
sacristan,
Strangle the cock that crows (warning to keep a secret).
To reprimand
cantando
se vienen, y cantando se van.
severely.
If the abbot sings well, the acolyte

is
canta, ni llora.
circumstances one
fare better.
not
much behind
Combined
effort
him.
accomplishes much.
Easy come, easy go.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Ya no queda mas que
coser y cantar.
El carro canta.
Cantar
Como el
de moron, cacareando
gallo
is
lead a free and licentious
trifle.
life.
polish the manners.

Like the defeated cock, that has lost
feathers but not conceit.
y sin pluma.
To promise much and give nothing.

To reprimand severely.
To win a large sum at play.
To be very hungry.
Cacarear, y no poner huevo.

Cardarle a alguno la lana.
Cardarle a uno
What remains to be done

The wheel creaks.
To
To
la sorna.
Cepillar la corteza.
37
la lana.
Carearse de hambre.
La necesidad carece de
Necessity knows no law.
ley.
To proceed deliberately, carefully.

To reflect attentively.
To pursue a thing eagerly, or immod-
Cargarse de raz6n.
Cargar
el juicio.
Cargar
la
mano.
erately.
Burro cargado de
One who
letras.
has studied much, to
little
purpose.
Cargar a
To ship goods
To importune
To blame a
flete.
Cargar sobre uno.

Cargarle a uno las cabras.
make him
To
To
Cargarsele 4 uno la cabeza.

Cargar la conciencia.
la bestia
cargada, el sobornal
le
mata.
to tease.
person unjustly;
a scapegoat.
drowsy, sleepy.
burden one's conscience with
The
to
last
sin.
straw breaks the camel's
back.
los
dados.
Cargar arriba
For qu
To go to a certain place.
To beat a person with a stick.
To load dice.
To clew up a sail (nau.)
.Cargar a alguna parte.

Cargar de lena a alguno.
Cargar
feel
as freight.
una
vela.
carga de agua ?
Why?
Carga el viento.
Antes que te cases, mira
lo
que
what
is
the matter?
The wind increases.

Look before you leap.
haces.
For codicia de
con
Para
florin,
no
te
cases
mal
casar,
mas
vale
nunca
maridar.
villain for his
money.
lejos
Better never marry than marry unwisely.
Casaras y amansards.
Quien
Never marry a
ruin.
va a casar, 6 va enga-
nado, 6 va a enganar.
Marry, and take the cares and responsibilities of home.
Thorough acquaintance before marriage
is
important.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
38
El dia que
te cases,
te
sanas 6 te
The marriage day
matas.
Ruin con
asi
que
ruin,
casan en
Duenas.
Marriage must be between equals in

order to be happy.
Castigar en la bolsa.
To strike one on the

To give one a severe
To impose a fine.
Duena
Those who live
Cascar
fraught with
is
future happiness or misery.
las liendres.
Cascar d uno
las liendres.
culpada, mal castigada mal-
head.
drubbing.
in glass houses should
not throw stones.
lada.
Consider that they are orphans

dren need a parent's care)
Catalos aqui sin padre.
(chil-
buey viejo no
el se la
cata
cates majada, que

6 d buey viejo no le
le
Do
not try to teach those
who
are
wiser than yourself.
cates abrigo.
Catarse vergiienza.
Cuando no se cata ; 6 cuando me'nos
To respect another.
When one thinks least
of
it.
se cata.
La mujer y
la cibera
no
la cates
d la
candela.
Barba a barba, vergiienza
se cata.
In choosing your wife or your grain,

be careful.
Those who are present receive more
who
respect than those
La
gotera cava la piedra.

las veces, do cazar pensamos,
Sometimes the
cazados quedamos.
Cebar un anzuelo.
Ceder al torrente.
Cegar una via de agua.
Celebrar
el
cumpleanos.
Cenar d oscuras.
Cenir espada.
Cenir
la plaza.
Cercar a trabajo
6 cercar d uno.
Cerner, cerner y sacar poca harina.

Cerrar la boca a alguno.
En boca cerrada no entran moscas.
A
A
carga cerrada.
puerta cerrada,
el
diablo se vuelve.
are absent.
Constant dropping wears away stone.

biter
is
bit,
the de-
ceiver deceived.
To bait a fish-hook.
To be carried away by public opinion.
To stop a leak (nau.).
To keep the birthday.
To be miserly,
To wear a sword.
To besiege a city.
To heap misfortunes upon a person.
To make great efforts to attain trifles.
To silence a person.
wise head keeps a close mouth.

Without prudent reflection.
The devil turns away from a closed
door.
Cerrar los ojos.

Cerrar los ojos d alguno.
To
To
Without hesitation
ojos cerrados.
close one's eyes in death.
attend at a death.
;
at all events.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Cuando una puerta
se cierra, ciento
one door
shut, others
is
may
Do
se abren.
not despair.
open.
To refuse to grant a thing.
Cerrar la puerta.
Cerrarse todas las puertas.
Cerrar en falso la puerta.
Cerrarse
When
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To lose all hopes of success.

To leave the door insecurely fastened.
To forbid the issue of marriage li-
las velaciones.
censes during certain seasons (by

the church).
To adhere obstinately to an opinion.

An obstinate or stubborn person.
Rude ignorant.
To begin to acquire sense.
To be imperfectly healed (said of a
Cerrarse de campina.
Cerrado como pi6 de mulo.

Cerrado de mollera.
Cerrar
la mollera.
Cerrarse en
falso.
wound).
Cerrarse
Cerrar
The
el cielo.
With might and main.
puno cerrado.
la mano.
To be a miser close-fisted.
To bring up the rear of a procession.
To brave a person to his face.
Cerrar
Cerrar
clouds gather densely.

dark.
To grow
el dia.
la procesi6n.
Chantarle a uno alguna cosa.

Le chupan todo cuanto tiene.
Chupar, 6 sacar,
They
tutanos a
los
al-
To
drain
him of
all
he has.
money from a person ; to

extract the very marrow from his
guno.
extort
bones.
Chupar
la
To
sangre de alguno.
suck
Chuparse
los
To
dedos.
feel
blood
one's
treacherously)
The ground wants
clama por agua.

Clarearse de hambre.
To be
Me
tierra
la
claven en
la frente.
Clavar un clavo con
Clavar a uno en
el
cabeza.
la
coraz6n alguna
ruin
great delight in eating, or
in saying or hearing
La
(to
a thing.
water.
very hungry.
do not believe
it.
To be very stubborn.
To cause great sorrow
or pain.
cosa.
Piedra movediza nunca
moho
cobija.
Cobrar, 6 crecer, coraz6n.
Cobrar ammo.,
valor, espiritu.
Cobra buena fama, y
e'chate a dor-
mir.
rolling stone gathers
To gather courage.
To muster up one's
courage.
Gain a good name and go to sleep

or, a good name once
upon it
;
acquired
El enfermo cobra fuerzas.
no moss.
The
is
easily kept.
invalid improves.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
40
To become fat.
To take in the slack of a rope
Cobrar carnes.
Cobrar
el socaire.
(nau.)
En cada
In other houses they cook beans, but
Quien cuece y amasa, de todo pasa.

Lo que no has de comer, dejalo
All vocations have their drawbacks.
casa cuecen habas, y en la

nuestra a calderadas.
mine
in
Do
cocer.
it is
by the
potful.
not meddle in other people's
business.
No coce>sele a uno el pan.

No cocersele a uno el bollo,
To be
6
el
pan.
Not
anxious to
to rest
till
know something.
one's curiosity
is sat-
isfied.
No se cogen truchas d bragas enjutas.

Coger d uno en mal
latin.
No gains without pains.

To detect one in a mistake,
particu-
of language.
storm, or the night, overtook
larly
La tempestad, 6
la
noche,
me
cogi6.
The
me.
Cogi, y
me
acosti.
Coger en cierne.
Coger a deseo.
Coger la ronda.
Coger a uno con
manos.
hurto en las
went
To
To
To
To
to bed.
gather out of season.

obtain one's wishes.
catch the offender in the act.
Coger en mentira.
detect a person doing what he

wishes to keep secret.
To detect one in lying.
Mas
It is
el
presto se coge al mentiroso que
al cojo.
Coger a uno en la trampa.

Coger la ronda a alguno.
Coger por seca a alguno.
Coger a uno de mano d boca, 6 con
las manos en la masa.
Coger en la loseta 6 losilla.
Coger 6 tomar su
Coger
Coger
easier to catch a liar than a
cripple.
hatillo.
la delantera.
la puerta.
Coger las de Villadiego.

Cogi6 la alfombra toda la sala.
Tu que coges el berro, guardate del
anapelo.
To
To
To
To
detect a person in wrong- doing.

detect in a crime.
detect a person in a fault.
take one by surprise.
To deceive one cunningly.

To go away to leave a place.
To get the start of a person.
To go away.
To run away.
;
The
carpet covered the whole room.
When
gathering cresses, beware of

wolfsbane (always be on your
guard against danger).
Coger
Coger
la calle.
las calles.
Coger 6 hablar a alguno de vena.
To
To
To
fly; to escape.
obstruct the streets.
find
one in a favorable mood.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Procur^ cogerle de buen humor.
I tried
41
to
see
him when
in
good
humor.
Me
cogi6 descuidado.
Esta camera coge mucho
Coger en medio.
He
trigo.
me
took
unawares.
This granary holds
To
much
wheat.
place things on each
side
of
another.
Aqui
te cojo,
y aqui
Cogerle a uno
te
mato.
el carro.
Coger una liebre.

El cogi6 un lobo.
Coger
He
To
To
To
laureles.
los pasos.
Coger
Coger a uno
el
To act quickly.
To be unlucky.
To fall into the mud
paso.
or mire.
was tipsy.
win victories.
take precautions.
stop a person in order to speak
to him.
Coger a uno las sobaqueras.

Coger con palabras.
To gain ascendency over a person.

To win affection or favor by flattery
Coger las palabras.

Coger a uno la palabra.
To listen with careful attention.

To compel a promise and its fulfil-
Coger agua en cesto, 6 en harnero.
To
or false promises.
ment.
gather water in a basket or a
to labor in vain.
;
sieve
Del agua
vertida, alguna cogida.
Agua coge con harnero quien se

cree de ligero.
Half a loaf
Coger
To
To
el bulto.
al vuelo.
better than
with a sieve
dulity)
Coger 6 pescar
is
may seem easy
It
no bread.
to gather water
(reproach to cre-
a person.
catch on the wing ; to succeed
lay hold of
by accident.
To
To
To
To
Cogerlas al vuelo.
Coger 6 tomar vuelo.
Coger
Colgar
rizos.
los habitos.
be very clever and
skilful.
increase.
take in reefs (nau.).

doff the cassock (to leave the
priesthood).
To compliment
Colgar a uno.
birthday
about
Obra comenzada, no
te la
gra ni cunada.
Comerse
las palabras.
Comer y
tragar
con
la vista.
vea sue-
If
a person
by hanging
on
his
something
his neck.
you would accomplish your plans,

pursue them quietly.
enunciate badly, indistinctly.
To
To
have a
fierce
and
terrible aspect.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
42
Comerse unos a otros.

Comerse a uno con los
Me
lo
me
ojos.
comeria, 6
comermele a bocados.
perro de hortelano, ni come,
comere,
lo
To be at daggers drawn.
To look daggers at any one.
To be in a fit of rage against
Como
el
ni dejar
a per-
son.
quisiera
Like the dog in the manger.
comer.
Fulano se come
tres mil
pesos de
He
renta.
has, or spends, three
dollars
El comer y
el rascar,
todo es empe-
thousand
income.
To
encourage one to do that which

he dislikes.
zar.
Quien come y condensa, dos veces

pone la mesa.
Asno de muchos, lobos
The
penny saved
is
a penny gained
he who eats and
saves, sets
the
table twice.
le
comen.
ass of
many owners
the wolves
ness
Cojear del
mismo
Saber de que pi
Comerse de
To
food for
is
or everybody's busi-
nobody's business.
is
on the same foot (to have

the same defect or fault).
pi6.
halt
To know a person's weak side.

To be insensibly wasting property or
cojea.
polilla.
health.
Comer pan con corteza.

Con su pan se lo coma.
El que solo se come su
To be
That
gallo, solo
Comerse una dama 6 pe6n.

Comerse tras el juego.
Comerse tras la caza.
O perdiz, 6 no comeria.
a dos
his
He who
own
is
affair.
selfish in
his
pleasures
musf not expect help in his need.

To take a queen or pawn at chess.
ensilla su caballo.
Comer
independent.
is
To gamble very eagerly.

To hunt very eagerly.
Neck
To
carrillos.
or nothing.
enjoy two offices or benefices at
the
same time.
Sin comerlo ni beberlo.
To
El orin come
Rust corrodes iron.

Water disintegrates stones.
To be swarming with vermin.
El agua
Comerse de
j
el hierro.
come
Al pobre
las piedras.
piojos.
el sol se lo
Quien come
la
come
vaca del rey, a cien
anos paga los huesos.
suffer undeservedly.
Nobody
He who
will
cares for the poor.

steals
suffer
from a powerful
in the end,
hundred years pass
Ave de cuchar, mas come que val 6

ave de cuchar nunca en mi corral.
;
Fowls with
flat
man
though a
first.
beaks (ducks, etc.)
are unprofitable.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Comer arena, antes que hacer vileza.
Gente loca, comeis de mi rabo y no
de mi boca.
Dios no come, ni bebe, mas juzga lo
que ve.
Quien se pica,
mido.
43
To starve rather than commit a crime.

Backbiters.
God
sees
all,
and
will
judge us by
our acts.
ajos
come, 6 ha co-
Those who take offence at a general

remark show a suspicious sensi-
comer en
Trustees
tiveness.
Administradorcillos,
y morir en grilles.
Calentura de polio por comer
Aldeana es
la gallina,
plata,
gallina.
y c6mela
el
de
Sevilla.
En
casa del abad
comer y
who
eat off plate, die in
fetters.
llevar.
Illness
in
feigned
order to avoid
work or excite sympathy.

Those of humble or modest
origin
are not, therefore, to be despised.
In an abbot's house is enough and to
spare.
Al cabo del ano mas come
que
el
el
muerto
sano.
Alia vaya el
mal do comen
el
huevo
Much money
is
spent for masses
during the first year after a death.
We must not wish evil to any one.
sin sal.
Abad de
Zarzuela, comisteis la olla>
De
la olla
no
la
come toda
time for rest or comfort.
Comer los pinones.

Comer de mogo!16n.
Comerse
las
life,
mind how it is cooked.

To be very much inclined to laugh.
Too many occupations leave little
risa.
Olla reposada,
barba.
grateful for the comforts of
d-
que no has de comer,
jala bien cocer.
Comerse de
Be
without craving its luxuries.

If you are not to eat the stew, don't
pedis la cazuela.
manos
tras
alguna cosa.
To
To
To
celebrate Christmas Eve.

live at
other people's expense.
eat with so
much
appetite as to
clear the platter.
bodeg6n hemos comido
<iEn que
(a
rebuke for undue familiarity).
juntos?
Comerse
Where have we eaten together?
las
Aun ahora
To become
manos.
se
come
el
pan de
la
furious.
The honeymoon
is
not yet over.
boda.
Comer como un
saban6n, 6
como
To
eat greedily
to devour.
dogos.
No comer
el
Uno come
pan de balde.
la
fruta
tiene la dentera.
aceda, y otro
Not to eat the bread of idleness.

What is one man's meat is another
man's poison.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
44
De una
asentada se comi6 medio
At one
sitting
they eat half a sheep.
carnero.
Gran
no escotar y comer.
placer,
Quien come
la carne,
que roa
very pleasant to eat and have

nothing to pay.
It is
el
He who
eats the
meat must gnaw
the bone (equivalent to no rose

without a thorn).
hueso.
El hombre mezquino, despues que

ha comido, ha frio.
Comer con gana.
Comer con buenos
aceros.
Comerse los codos de hambre.

Comer una cosa en uno 6 en dos
Food
gives vigor to the energetic

man, but not to the lazy.
To eat with an appetite.

To eat with a keen appetite.
To be starved with hunger.
To eat very fast.
bocados.
Trucha 6 no comerla; 6 ayunar 6

comer trucha.
Cometer un error garrafal.
To commit an enormous
Mentira
garrafal.
Either eat trout or fast
tremendous
blunder.
lie.
To commit a crime.
To insult, or be wanting
Cometer un exceso.
Cometer un atropello con alguno.
the best or
nothing.
in respect
to a person.
Componer
Palo compuesto no parece palo.

el semblante.
To
Esa copa de vino me ha compuesto.
This glass of wine has strengthened
He, or
it, is thoroughly disguised.

put on a calm and sedate appearance.
me.
To
tanto de renta.
Componer
Manos y vida componen
have so
much a
year.
Patience and perseverance conquer
villa.
difficulties.
Componer
el
semblante 6
el rostro.
To show modesty
or seriousness in
the face.
Dios y vida componen
Have
villa.
faith in
God, but labor
ear-
nestly.
Es mas barato
lo
comprado que
lo
regalado.
is
bought
is
cheaper than a
gift.
Comprar. conquistar, ganar el cielo.

La mujer loca por la vista compra
la toca.
Comprar
What
To
gain heaven by good works.

Reflect well before beginning an enterprise.
las
cosas sueltas, 6 d bulto.
To buy goods
in bulk, or at
sale.
Comprar de primera mano.
To buy
at first hand.
whole-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Quien compra
caballo,
compra
He who
cui-
45
buys a horse, buys care.
dado.
To
Comulgar con ruedas de molino.

Concurrir en un
mismo
voto, 6
dio
make
try to
a person believe im-
probable things.
To concur in another person's opin-
tamen.
ion.
Condenar una puerta.

Condenar A una persona en
Confesar en
el
To
To
close
To
To
confess for fear of torture.
up a door permanently.
sentence a person to pay the
costs in a lawsuit.
costas.
tormento.
Confesar sin tormento.
what one knows, without
tell
urging.
Conocer de
To know by sight.
To make one's self
vista.
Darse a conocer.
recognized, or
known.
To
Dar a conocer.
introduce or present people to
each other.
No
se
conoce
el bien,
hasta que se
El arbol se conoce por su fruta.

Conocer de una causa, 6 un pleito.
Conocer el juego.
Conocer alguno su pecado.
Conocer las uvas de su vinedo.
Conocerle a uno alguna cosa en
bianco de los ojos.
Antes que conozcas, ni alabes
We
To
lo
Por
a cause
try
other
la
la cara al
ni
cara a la necesidad.
las visperas se
miedo.
conocen
(applied
to read his
to
the
los san-
knowledge.
know you well.

To know a person from his infancy.
To know a horse's age by his teeth.
Never to have known poverty.
To know no fear.
I
Wise people judge of events

nection with preceding
tos.
of an-
mind.
Neither praise nor censure without

sufficient
conocer
the value of our
To know one's own.

To penetrate the intention
cohondas.
conocer
know
judge).
To discover another's designs.
To confess his fault.
Quien no te conozca, que te compre.

Conocer a uno desde su cuna.
Conocer la edad por el diente.
No
No
scarcely
blessings until we have lost them.

The tree is known by its fruit.
pierde.
in con-
circum-
stances.
Consagrar
tiempo, 6 la vida, a una
6
ciencia.
profesi6n
Dios consiente, y no para siempre
el
To
devote one's self to a profession
or science.
God's forbearance
ever.
will
not
last for-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
46
Conservar
la
Consignar
las
memoria de una
cosa.
6rdenes.
Constituirse en obligaci6n de alguna

cosa.
Cada uno cuenta de

va en
la feria
como
le
To remember anything.
To give a sentry his orders.
To bind one's self to do something.
Each one speaks
well or
ill
of things
as they affect himself.
ella.
Contar 6 decir mil bienes de una
To
praise a person very highly.
To
To
To
To
To
count upon one's friendship.
persona.
Contar con
la
amistad de uno.
Contar grandes paparuchas.

Contarle algo a alguno.
Contar por hecha alguna cosa.

Contar con alguna persona para algo.
tell
incredible tales.
attribute
something to another.
take a thing for granted.
count upon a person's assistance
or sympathy.
To be a very skilful fencer.

To watch a person while eating.
Contarle los botones a uno.
Contar
De
i
lo
los
bocados a uno.
contado come
Contarselo a su
Todo
tia
el lobo.
Nothing is perfectly safe.

Tell that to the marines
en sustancia.
lo convierte
He
own
turns everything to his
ad-
vantage.
Coronar
la fiesta.
Correr por mano de uno alguna cosa.

Correr obligaci6n a alguno.
Correr
la
mano.
Correr con su mano, 6 por su mano.

El que me"nos corre vuela.
Correrle bien 6 mal la suerte a uno.
To complete anything.
To have a thing under one's charge.
To be obliged to do something.
To move the hand quickly.
To do anything by one's self.
He who
is
observant while pretend-
ing indifference.
To be lucky or unlucky.
Correr con desgracia.
To have good luck.

To be unlucky, unfortunate.
Corren noticias
It is said
Correr
Corre
el
dado.
corre la fama.
la voz.
To
Correr la voz.
todo correr; 6 corran
como
La
it is
las
cosas
reported or rumored.
the story goes.
reported ;
pass the word
to
be divulged.
Happen what may.
corrieren.
linea corre
Correr
It is
las lineas.
Correr monte.
Correr sangre.
Correr bien el
oficio.
The boundary
line passes
To review troops.
To hunt large game.
To shed blood.
To make the most
office.
of a place or
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Correr
To
To
el oficio.
Correr peligro.
Correr mal tiempo.
run the
The times
risk.
are evil.
If the worst
turbio correr.
Correr
be overworked.
The water
las canales.
comes
to the worst.
flows through the chan-
nels.
Correr en una direci6n opuesta.

Correr burro alguna cosa.
To tolerate or permit a thing.

To transact business expeditiously.
To let one learn by experience.
To be equal.
To run counter.
To disappear.
Correr
The
Dejar correr alguna cosa.

Correr los negocios.
Dejarlo correr que ello parara.
Correr parejas.
las pagas, el salario,

Correrse una vela.
Correr
Corre
Correr
el sueldo.
las lagrimas.
The money
moneda.
la
of a candle).
circulates.
To drop the curtain.

To put to the blush
To fight bulls.
el te!6n.
Correr a uno.
Correr toros.
Correr
salaries continue.
To gutter (said
To weep much.
The ink is fluid.

The wind blows from
la tinta.
Corre viento del norte.

Correr los montes 6
sierras.
Correr monte, montes, 6

El monte corre a
*
.
el
monte.
To be
To go
to disconcert.
the north.
distant.
hunting.
The mountain extends
To be ashamed
Correrse.
to ...
or confused
to
run away.
Correr
el
Correr
la posta,
Correr
el
tiempo.
6 en la posta.
ganso,
Time
To
or passes.
by post.
game where riders
el gallo.
flies,
travel
at full
speed
snatch at a goose or cock.
Quien mas
corre,
menos
vuela.
More
haste, worse speed.
Correr a rienda suelta.
To
To
As quickly
Correr
mas
la pella.
correr
Dejarse correr.
Correr fortuna.
Corre
el
Corre
la flecha.
verso.
a todo correr.
To
To
run
swiftly.
ride at
full
speed.
as possible.
down a
pole or rope.
pass through a storm.
The verse runs smoothly.
slide
The arrow
flies
Correr
el velo.
when Indian
make war upon a
(said
tribes agree to
common enemy).
To discover a secret.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To run the gauntlet.
To live in peace.
To inspect the lines of an army.
To draw the curtain.
To draw the ribbon or cord.
To capture stray cattle to impound
Correr baquetas.
Correr con armonia.
Correr
la linea.
Correr
la cortina.
Correr
la cinta
6 cordon.
Correr ganado.
cattle.
Correr a cuatro pies de paridad.

A turbio correr; 6 cuando todo
To be
turbio corra.
Correr
el
caf
exactly equal.
or unfortunate
However bad
it
may
be.
precio de diez cen-
Coffee
cord6n
To
loosen a knot.
To
To
take off the mask.
al
sells at
ten cents per pound.
tavos libra.
Correr
la cinta,
que haga
Correr
el velo.
Correr
las
Corre
ti
otra cosa
lazo.
amonestaciones.
Correr sin freno.

Correr
al
cuidado de alguno alguna
To
To
year is passing away.

give one's self up to vice.
retain the care and responsibility
of an
cosa.
Correr
publish the bans of marriage.
The
el afio.
To
To
la palabra.
Correr tormenta.
Correr en
el
affair.
give the word (mil.).

run before the wind in a storm
to scud (nau.).
To continue in the
mismo rumbo.
same course
(nau.).
Correr a palo seco.

Correr sobre un
bajel.
Correr un viento forzado.
Correr del otro bordo.

Correr por bordos, 6 bordear.
Correr a dos punos.
Correr
las
mares.
Correr a bolina, 6 a trinca.

Correr hacia la tierra.
Correr viento en popa.

Correr con la mar en popa.
Correr fortuna.
Tanto monta cortar como

Cortarse las
Cortar
desatar,
Magno.
unas con alguno.
dijo Alejandro
el revesino.
To scud under bare poles (nau.).

To bear down upon a vessel (nau.).
To sail in a storm (nau.).
To stand on the other tack (nau.).
To ply to windward (nau.)
To run before the wind (nau.).
To follow the seas (nau.).
To sail by the wind (nau.).
To stand in shore (nau.).
To sail before the wind (nau.).
To scud before the sea (nau.).
To sail before the wind (nau.).
To cut is the same as to untie, said
.
Alexander the Great.
To
To
pick a quarrel with any one.

interrupt
to impede.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Se corta
Cortar
49
The milk
la leche.
To
las alas.
strict
To
Cortar los vuelos.
turns sour.
down a peg
take one
clip
to
re-
to clip the wings.
the
wings
to
impose a
restraint.
Cortar
To
To
las piernas.
Cortar bien una lengua.
render a thing impossible.

speak a language with propriety
and elegance.
To murmur against or blame any one.

To dilute wine with water.
To criticise to find fault.
To cut the thread of life.
To kill.
To interrupt a discourse or conver-
Cortar un sayo, 6 un vestido.

Cortar el vino con agua.
Cortar de
tijera.
Cortar la hebra.
Cortar
el hilo
Cortar
el hilo.
de
la vida.
sation.
To
To
To
To
Cortar faldas.
Cortar
el
naipe.
Cortar de
Coserse
raiz.
la
boca.
backbite.
cut for deal (cards).

eradicate.
refuse to answer
not to speak a
word.
Cosido con
Coserse con
hilo gordo.
la tierra
6 con
la
pared.
Badly, carelessly done.

creep along the ground, or the
To
wall.
Cueste
lo
Nunca mucho
Me
Cost what
que cueste.
Much
cost6 poco.
cuesta tanto.
Cuesta
la torta
Pan ajeno caro
It stands
un pan.
The
cuesta.
Other
it
may.
never cost
me
little.
in so
much.
sprat cost a herring.
bread
people's
is
dearly
bought.
Lo que
cuesta poco, se estima en
m6nos.
That which costs but
little
is
valued
less.
Costar un ojo.
Caro cuesta el arrepentirse.
Crecer hacia abajo.
To be
La carga andando
Light burdens,
very dear.
Repentance
To
is
retrograde
very dearly purchased.

to lose instead of
;
gaining.
Mientras
la
crece.
yerba crece,
el
caballo
muere.
Carne que crece, no puede estar

no mece.
heavy.
While the grass
is
si
if
is
borne
far,
become
growing the horse
starving.
Growing children cannot keep
still.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
50
La marea
crece, 6
The
mengua.
tide flows, or ebbs.
Crecer a palmos.
La mala yerba crece mucho.
To grow
Creer a macha martillo.
To
very
fast.
weeds grow
Ill
fast.
believe in spite of everything
have implicit
Creer a ojos cerrados.
To
To
Creerse del
To be
Creer a puno cerrado.
to
faith.
believe firmly.
believe without sufficient founda-
tion.
No me
aire.
haran creer cuantos aran
lo
y cavan.
tu mujer y de tu amigo experto,
no creas sino lo que supieres de
De
credulous.
No one shall ever make me believe it.

Do
cierto.
not believe everything you hear,
even
from
friend
or
your
may be
mis-
your wife
they, too,
taken.
Salud y alegria, belleza cria.

Dios los cria, y ellos se juntan.
Cria cuervos, y te sacaran los ojos.
Health and mirth make beauty.

Birds of a feather flock together.
Cosset a crow, and he
will
pick your
eyes out.
Piedra movediza no cria moho.
La
tierra
do
me
criare, de"mela
Dios
rolling stone gathers
One's native land
is
no moss.
dearest.
por madre.
Came, carne
cria,
y peces agua
fria.
diet of
meat
than one of
To
Criar a los pechos.

La vina y el potro, criela otro.
criticar
pon
la
mano en
jDecho.
Criticar 6 corregir el magnificat.
Cruzarse los negocios.

Crazar los intereses de alguno.
more
nutricious
instruct or educate a person.
Beginnings are difficult.

Children brought up by their grand-
Criado por abuelo, nunca bueno.
Antes de
is
fish.
tu
parents are generally spoiled.

Before you find fault with others,
look to yourself.
To criticise without judgment.

To be overwhelmed with business.
To interfere with the interests of
others.
Cruzar
las
manos.
Cubrir la cuenta.
Cubrirse con la cola.
Cubrirsele a
Quien
uno
el
coraz6n.
te cubre, te descubre.
Cubrir con un velo.
Cuidar del numero uno.
To be quiet.
To balance an account.
To make use of frivolous evasions.
To be very melancholy or very sorry.
Excessive secrecy betrays.
To
To
conceal.
take care of one's
self.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Cuida tu
los cuartos,
los pesos
que
51
Take care of the pence, and the
se cuidan solos.
pounds
take care of them-
will
selves.
Cumplir anos 6
dias.
Cumpla V. por
mi, 6 por otro.
To reach one's birthday.

Do it in my name, or in
another's
name.
To
To
promise and not perform.
Cumplirsele a uno su deseo.

El plazo se ha cumplido.
To
have one's wishes
Cumplir a la letra.
Cumplir un pleito.
To obey orders exactly.

To end a lawsuit.
To guard against unreal
Cumplir de palabra.
Cumplir la palabra, 6
mantener su palabra.
voto
el
Eso
se cura
el
con una telarana.

al
expired.
enfermo, que no
Time
is
the best medicine.
unguento.
El viejo que se cura, cien
afios dura.
If the
must
De
fulfilled.
danger.
Live wisely, and live long.
That can easily be cured.
te curas, duras.
El tiempo cura
one's promise.
The time has
Curarse en salud.
Como
fulfil
non me euro
;
que mis
hacen seguro.
De nuevas no os curedes, que hacerse han viejas y saberlas hedes.
juicios
obras
Dale
al
me
tonto una cuerda, y ahor-
carse ha con
ella.
Mai de que no ha; 6 nada puede

dar quien no tiene.
Cuando te den la vaquilla acude con
la soguilla.
It
old would live long,
matters
I
they
live carefully.
little
have done
what others
my
say, for
best.
Be not over-eager for news it

come sooner or later.
Give a rope to a fool, and he
;
will
will
hang himself.
You. can get no more from a cat
than her skin.
When
they give you a calf, be ready

with a halter ; or, make hay while
the sun shines.
Dando
gracias por agravios, negocian los hombres sabios.
Al villano dale
mano.
Dios da el
el
pi, y
se
tomara
la
Give an inch, and he
will
take an
ell.
frio
conforme a
la ropa.
Quien da lo suyo antes de su muerte,

merece que le den con un mazo
en la frente.
Da
Bear and forbear.
y ten, y hards bien.
God
tempers the wind to the shorn

lamb.
Who
gives
dead,
his
take a
goods before he's

beetle and knock
him on the head.

Be liberal, but prudent.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
52
Dar y
To be
ha menester.
tener, seso
liberal, yet
prudent, requires
ability.
To
To
To
Dar gusto, 6 pena.

Dar trguas.
Dar senas.
give pleasure, or offence.
suspend pain temporarily.

describe a thing by giving
its
distinctive marks.
Dar intenci6n.
Dar la pez.
Dar 6 exhalar
el espiritu
6 dar
el
To
To
To
give hope.
be at the last extremity.
die.
alma.
Dar
el
alma
al
To be utterly reckless
Diablo.
to give one's
soul to the devil.
Dar a alguno en la cabeza.

Dar con la cabeza en las paredes.
Dar serial.
To
To
To
For dar gusto a ...
For the sake of ...
Dar
To
No
No
gusto.
give earnest-money.
gratify
Not
Not
dar asenso.
dar su asenso.
Dar bien 6 mal el juego.

Dar musica a un sordo.
Dar lado.
Dar un bocado a uno.
Darle a alguno por
frustrate one's designs.
run one's head against a wall.
las
inmediatas.
to please.
to credit or believe a thing.

to agree to a thing.
To be lucky or unlucky.
To labor or urge in vain.
To move aside to make
To give in charity.
To overwhelm a person
;
way.
with argu-
ments.
Dar gana.
La lectura de
To
ese libro le dara gana
de dormir a V.
Dar con algo.

Dar palabra 6 su
have a mind to a thing.
Reading
this
book
will
put you to
sleep.
palabra.
To
To
find anything.
self to the fulfilment
bind one's
of a promise.
Dar de mano.
Dar la mano.
Dar barro a mano.
Darse
la
mano una
cosa con otra.
Dar de si.
Dar el si.
To
To
To
To
To
To
lay aside
to
abandon.
shake hands.
furnish materials.
harmonize.
stretch.
grant anything;
to
consent to
marry.
Dar
mano.
manos a una
Dar palabra y mano.
No
su
darse
cosa.
To marry.
To do anything hastily.
To celebrate one's betrothal.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Dar la ultima mano d alguna cosa.
Dar de manos.
Dar en manos de alguno.
Al hombre osado la fortuna le da la
To
To
To
53
put the
last
touch to a thing.
fall
on one's hands.
fall
into the
power of another.
Fortune favors the brave.
mano.
To
Dar calabazas a alguno.
reject a person at
tion
an examina-
or to refuse a proposal of
marriage.
To make one
Dar canazo.
j
No
hay que darle vueltas
Dar vueltas.
Dar una vuelta.
Darse una vuelta.
sad.
No quibbling that is the very thing

To promenade on a public walk.
To make a short excursion.
To reflect on one's conduct or ac!
tions.
To
To
To
To
Dar a comprender.
Dar paso.
Darse por buenos.
Dar en una tema.
be reconciled.
acquire a habit.
Darse de calabazadas.
me with amazement.
To bow the head in sign of respect.
To nod with sleepiness.
To labor in vain to ascertain some-
Me
I give
Esto
me ha dado
give to understand.
clear the way.
This has struck
choz.
Dar cabezada.
Dar cabezadas.
thing.
doy por vencido.
up
it
acknowledge myself
conquered.
Lo doy por hecho.
I take for granted that
Dar
To jump
Me
saltos.
dan por
cierto que.
that
No
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
dar
una plumada.
I will
un abrazo apretado.
en la tecla.
en
pi
la chita.
con bola.
en
el chiste,
en
el busilis,
6 en
6 en
bianco.
el
la
yema.
To
To
To
To
To
To
done.
been credibly informed
have
it is
about.
not write a
line.
give a close embrace.

touch the right chord.
see the point of a difficulty.
guess rightly.
hit the bull's-eye.
hit the
mark
to hit the nail
on
the head.
Dar en
el hito,
6 en
la dificultad.
To
hit the nail
on the head
to
come
to the point.
Dar en
la vena,
6 hallar
la
vena.
To
hit upon the right means

what one wants.
to get
SPANISH IDIOMS.
54
To make a trial.
To give upon trial.
To burst out laughing.
To take no trouble to gain an
Dar un tiento,
Dar 4 cata.
Dar una carcajada.
No
dar pi, ni patada.
Le di6 una pega de

Dar palo.
He
patadas.
To
end.
gave him a good kick.

turn out contrary to one's expec-
tations.
Bofet6n amagado, nunca bien dado.
Darse.
Dar cuenta de algo.

Dar diente con diente.
To
To
To
To
Dar
To
Darse
al estudio.
barking dog does not
bite.
give one's self up ; to give

apply one's self to study.
it
up.
waste or destroy anything.

have one's teeth chatter with the
cold.
vez.
quien dan no escoge.
Dar
Dar
give one his turn.
Beggars must not be choosers.
To
To
crdito, 6 fiado.
credito.
ha de darsele credito.
Dar fiador 6 fianza.
Dar cuenta con pago.
sell
on
credit.
believe.
Si
If he
Darse por perdido.

Dar en que entender.
Dar en duro.
Dar censo.
To find bail to give security.

To close or balance an account.
To give one's self up for lost, for dead.
To give trouble.
To attain with difficulty.
To give a long lease (by the govern-
Dar de bandolera,
Dar la bandera.
To admit one to the royal life-guards.

To submit to the superior talents or
No
To be at
To have
is
to be believed.
;
ment)
merits of another.
saber por donde darse.
Dar un
brazo, 6 una mano, por con-
a loss
willing to give a
seguir algo.
to attain
Dar a tromp6n.
Darse
No
tres
6 cuatro
how
filos
con alguno.
dar 6 no dejar la ida por
la
To
To
To
to decide.
a vehement desire
to
be
hand or an arm
it.
give at random.
talk pleasantly with one.
solicit
very earnestly.
venida.
Darse dos Idas y venidas.
Dar el beso al jarro.

Dar 6 echar otro nudo d la bolsa.
Darsele
uno las coplas de la zarabanda.
To transact business quickly.

To drink freely.
To become extremely frugal.
To treat a person or thing with
difference.
in-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Me
6 conceder invalidos.
arqueadas.
trascant6n, 6 trascantonada.
un toque.
cima.
da
rabia.
Dar poste.
Dar a logro.
55
To pension veteran soldiers or sailors.

To show symptoms of nausea.
To hide one's self behind a corner.
To give one a trial in business.
To conclude happily.
That annoys me excessively.
To keep a person waiting.
To put money out at usurious interest.
To
To
Dar 6 tomar dinero a dano.

Dar a interes.
Lo dieron por libre.
Dar derecho de alguno.
lend or borrow
They
let
him go
To compel by
Quien da luego, da dos veces.

Dar en duro.
Dar forma.
Dar la sangre de sus venas.
Dar hasta sus entranas.
money on
interest.
place at interest.
free.
legal
means.
He who
gives promptly, gives twice.

offer resistance.
To
To regulate or put in order.
To make great sacrifices.
To give one's life for a cause
or for
another's sake.
To
To
To
To
Dar fin a alguna cosa.

Dar fin de una cosa.
Dar fin.
Dar cabo a alguna cosa.
finish
a thing completely.
put an end
to.
die.
give
the
finishing
touch to a
thing.
Dar cabo de alguna

Dar en error.
Dar en blando.
To destroy a thing.
To make a mistake.
To attain easily.
cosa.
El dar quebranta las penas.

Mas da el duro que el desnudo.
Judicious gifts smooth the way.

A rich miser gives more than an
Le di6 un dolor de costado.
He
No
Not
impecunious prodigal.
had a pain in his side.
dar palotada.
have said or done the right
to
thing.
No
dar puntada 6 palotada en un
negocio.
la ultima pincelada.
Darse un filo a la. lengua.
este terreno se
Dar de
da bien
el
el trjgo.
que prende.
Wheat
To
baja.
Quien da bien, vende
si
nothing in the matter.
To give the
To murmur
Dar
En
To do
no
es ruin
finishing stroke.
;
to detract.
flourishes well in this soil.
dismiss from the army.
Gifts to the grateful are not without
recompense.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
56
Dar
No
No
No
me da un
bledo.
higo
me
6 un pepino.
de ello.
den todas.
me da
se
las
despise a thing.
do not care a straw.

Not to value a thing at all.
Not to care a rush, or a fig.
I
dar por una cosa dos higas.

darsele a uno un pito ; 6 un
Nada
Ahi
To
higas.
se
care nothing about it.

do not care for that.
To
Darsele poco.
care nothing for a thing
spise
Darsele A uno poco de alguna cosa.

No darle d uno alguna cosa frio, ni
Not
Not
to de-
it.
to care about anything.

to care at all.
calentura.
Tanto se
por
lo
da por
le
lo
que va como
He
cares for nothing at
Dar por bien empleado.
Not
No
Nothing
to regret.
dan palos de balde.

Dar con el pie\
Se me da mucho.
To
Dado que
Supposing that
se
Dar de
barato.
No
la cara.
To
To
for nothing.
treat a thing with
That
dar
all.
que viene.
is
contempt.
very important to me.
(used
in
granted
that
argument).
grant for argument's sake.

conceal one's self.
Dios, que da la llaga, da la medicina.
God, who gives the wound, sends
Dar
Dar
To
To
the cure.
tajos
y mandobles.
la pez.
Quien
te
da un hueso, no
te quiere
ver muerto.
Tres cosas demando
si
diere, la tela, el telar,
Dios
y
la
me
que
las
la
run up huts as the soldiers do.

be at the last extremity.
He who
shares what
to those
teje.
Dar golpe una
cosa.
he has with
you, does not hate you.

Three things I ask of God the loom,
the weaver, and the cloth (reproach
To
who
are never satisfied).
strike with admiration or aston-
ishment.
Dar el golpe en vago.

Dar un sesgo a la conversaci6n.
To be frustrated in an affair.
To change the subject of conversa-
Dar un
pienso.
To
Donde
las
tion.
dan, las toman.
Dar prestado.
Darse un refreg6n.
give bait or food to an animal.
As one sows, so he must reap

who give must take.
To
To
lend.
speak briefly on a subject.
they
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Dar
poco
No
To deduce
el viento.
Fortuna
te
de Dios
57
hijo,
que
el
saber
conclusions from reason-
able premises.
Luck is better than wisdom.
te importa.
dar una sed de agua.
Not
to
be willing to give even a cup
of water.
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
el alma al amigo.
con la carga en tierra.
dado
6 de balde
6 de napa.
sus disculpas.
las cartas.
papilla.
broma.
con
la del martes.
mate.
brega.
candonga, 6 chasco.
con una persona en tierra.
To be willing to favor a friend.

To sink under fatigue or distress.
To give gratis.
To make an apology.
To deal the cards.
To deceive by insincere caresses.
To joke about any one present.
To make fun of any one.
To scoff at any one.
To play a trick.
To play a carnival trick.
To -throw a person down, as
in
wrestling.
Dar a uno una ropilla.

Dar una calada ; 6 jabonadura.
Dar a uno una carga cerrada ; 6 un
To give a friendly reprimand.

To reprimand.
capitulo.
Dar en rostro alguna cosa.

Dar en rostro a uno alguna cosa.
Dar a alguno con las puertas en
la
To cause disgust, annoyance, anxiety.

To reproach for faults committed.
To shut the door in one's face.
cara.
Dar grima.
Dar guerra.
To strike with
To wage war
terror or fear.
;
to
torment
to give
trouble.
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
tormento.
por
el pie".
con el pie".
de codo.
una bofetada.
To torture.
To overthrow.
To despise, scorn, make light of.
To elbow to treat with contempt.
To strike on the face to treat with
;
contempt.
Dar a alguno dos con que beba, y

tres con que coma.
To
Darse a perros.
To become enraged, furious.

To strike between the eyes
Dar
entre ceja y ceja.
strike a person.
(used
metaphorically of an unpleasant
announcement).
SPANISH IDIOMS.
58
To
Darse por sentido.
take
show
offence; to
resent-
ment.
To
To
To
To
Dar a beber hieles.

Dar sobre uno.
Que van dando
Dar con vaina y todo.
!
lead one a bitter
life.
attack any one.

give blow for blow.
abuse roundly;
to punish
se-
verely.
Eso me da tanto coraje

Dar coces contra el aguij6n.
Si da el cantaro en la piedra, 6
la
mal para
el
p'edra en
el cantaro,
me in such a rage
kick against the pricks.
That puts
To
cantaro.
Whether the pitcher
hits the stone,
or the stone hits the pitcher, it

sure to fare ill with the pitcher.
is
Darse un verde con dos azules.
To give uneasiness.
To speak rudely, uncivilly.
To persecute one.
To strike or punish.
To strangle.
To consign everything to the devil.
To snap and carp at one another.
To give trouble to make work.
To stare in the face to reproach.
To laugh at.
To tease.
To treat one well, or ill.
To make one laugh, or weep.
To amuse one's self for a short time.
To have a great amusement or pleas-
Dar del azote.

Dar coces.
Dar contra.
Dar traspies.
Dar de ojos.
To whip (a horse).
To kick (said of animals)
To hit against.
To stumble, without falling.
To fall on one's face to
Dar mal rato.

Dar dentelladas.
Dar tras uno.
Dai* para peras.
Dar
garrote.
Dar
al
diablo el hato y el garabato.
Dars? de
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
las astas.
que hacer.
en cara.
cantaleta.
baya.
buena 6 mala vida.
que reir, 6 llorar.

Darse un verde.
ure.
fall
into
error.
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
en
los ojos.
en
el
suelo
consigo en
con una cosa.

el suelo.
con el cuerpo en tierra.

6 caer de bruces.
un
costalazo.
de espaldas, 6
To be self-evident.
To bring anything to the
To fall down.
To fall down.
To fall headlong.
To fall flat to fail.
To fall on one's back, or
ground.
costillas.
side.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Dar en un
Dar calor.
Dar algun
Dar pan y
To fall down a precipice.

To foment to accelerate.
To paint with some color.
To furnish one with the means
precipicio.
color.
callejuela.
Dar el mundo un
Dar un estallido.
estallido.
un
To make
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
chillido.
voces.
gritos.
gemidos.
decir.
que
zapatetas.
el pe"same.
los
buenos
las
pascuas.
dias.
to
escape from danger.

The world seems out of joint.
make a
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
59
a noise or confusion
to
dishonest failure.
utter a scream.
cry out, or scream.

shout.
utter groans.
provoke censure, or comment.

leap with joy.
express condolence.
wish one a good day.
wish
one a happy Easter or
Christmas.
Dar el parabien ; 6 la enhorabuena.

Dar los dias.
Dar recados.
Dar parte.
Dar madrug6n.
Es amigo de dar consejos.
Dar largas.
To congratulate.
To congratulate on one's birthday.
To greet absent friends.
To share with to Inform.
To get up early.
He is very fond of giving advice.
To procrastinate or delay; to give
;
liberty to act.
full
Nadie
le
di6 la vara,
se hizo al-
calde y manda.
Nobody has put you in authority, or

made you magistrate (do not
interfere) .
Dar para
alfileres.
To
give fees to the servants
to give
pin-money.
Dar una almendrada.

Dar la paz.
To
To
Dar raz6n.
Dar raz6n de si, 6 de su persona.
Dar orejas.
Conforme diere el dado.
Dar rienda suelta.
To
To
To
say something pleasing.

give a token of peace and good-
will.
to give an account of.

;
follow instructions exactly.
inform
listen.
According to circumstances.
let an animal (or person) go
To
his
Darse a
la virtud.
own
To occupy
at
gait.
one's self in
good deeds.
'SPANISH IDIOMS.
60
Lo que Dios
Dar taba a alguno.
What God
To have a
What
da, llevarse ha.
sends must be borne.
long conversation with a
person.
mal dar tomar tabaco.
can't be cured
must be en-
dured.
Dar
To
la tarantela.
excite or agitate a person exces-
sively.
To
Dar margen.
Dar una manta.
Dar zelos.
Dar un vistazo.
Darsele a uno las coplas de
la zara-
banda.
cosa.
Dios a nuestros amigos tanto
bien que nos desconozcan.
To
To
To
give
glance.
treat a
To
person with indifference
furnish
what
ni
Dar 6 tomar
asiento en las cosas.
To
us.
act with indifference
taking no
part.
let
things
course.
An
To
gato viejo rat6n tierno.
Dar de cabeza.
necessary for the
great prosperity as shall alienate
To
da barato.
is
completion of something.
May God not give to our friends so
decided
to
excite suspicion.
them from
Ni juega
cause
to
or inattention.
Dar recado para alguna
No
occasion
opportunity.
To toss in a blanket.
take
their
regular
old cat likes a young mouse.

fall
into
misfortunes;
to
lose
one's authority.
Quien no da nudo, pierde punta.
Most
Dar 6 echar otro nudo a la

Dar soluci6n d una duda.
To be a miser.
To solve a doubt.
To show that a thing is understood.
To permit trade.
To despair.
To be fed to satiety.
To maintain one at his studies.
To frustrate one's views.
To cheat to deceive.
To heat the iron.
bolsa.
Darse por entendido.
Dar compra y vendida.

Darse
al diantre.
Darse una panzada.

Dar estudio a uno.
Dar en caperuza.
Dar a uno una dedada de miel.
Dar calda.
Mis ventanas dan al campo.
Dar
Dar
el
nombre, 6
pliego.
el santo.
haste, worst speed.
My
windows overlook the
field,
or
country.
give the watchword (mil.).
present a proposal for contract
To
To
with government.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Quien amaga y no da, miedo
ha.
61
He who
threatens
does not, is
To be foolish.
Dar en manias.
Dar puerta y silla.
To
invite
down ;
Dar
el testo.
Darse un repe!6n.
Darse a merced.
Dar filo.
Dar torniquete a una frase.
Dar 6 caer en borrasca.
al traste.
Dar
Dar
al traste
and
strike,
one to come in and

be hospitable.
sit
to
To give the authority.

To gossip or chat.
To surrender at discretion.
To sharpen an instrument.
To distort the sense of a phrase.
To become unprofitable to
;
into barren
Dar
to
afraid.
To give up
get
ground (mining).
a thing
to lose
to de-
stroy.
al traste
con el caudal.
con sus negocios.
To
To
dissipate one's fortune.

fail
to be unfortunate in busi-
ness.
Dar un cabe al bolsillo.

Dar estampido.
Dar una estampida.
To damage one's fortune.

To make a noise.
To abscond when in debt
Darse mafia.
To
To
to run
away.
Dar pasada.
Dar de reves
No
el viento.
dar palotada.
bring about
tolerate
to contrive.
to permit.
sudden change of wind.

Not to have said or done the
right
thing.
Dar por concluida, 6 hecha, una

cosa.
Dame
finished,
accom-
plished.
siquiera
Dar una
To have something
un poquito.
visita.
Dar, 6 echar,
Dar a luz.
luz.
El dar es honor,
Give me at least a little of it.

To pay a short visit.
To recover health and strength.
To publish to give birth to.
;
el
pedir dolor.
It is
an honor to
give, a misery to
ask.
Darse a jugar.
Dar por la tetilla.

Dar en la matadura.
Al necio y
al aire, darle calle.
Dar licencia.
Dar con la entretenida.
Dar de comer.
To be addicted to gambling.
To touch a person to the quick.
To touch to the quick.
Never contradict a
To
To
To
fool.
give leave, permission.

put off with words and excuses.
feed.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
62
To hasten.
To send one's
Darse priesa.
Dar memorias.
regards or compli-
ments.
Dar un abrazo.
Dar de presente.
Dar suelta.
To
To
To
Dar cuerda.
To
embrace.
give immediately, promptly.
give permission to a servant or
pupil to go out.
give one an opportunity to talk
on
his favorite subject.
Dar cuerda a la cuerda.

Dar cuerda a un reloj.
To prolong an affair.
To wind up a watch.
El
The
reloj da.
Ya ban dado
Al loco y
las
clock strikes.
It has struck nine.
nueve.
al toro, darles corro.
Dar por supuesto, 6 por sentado.
Make way for a madman and a bull.

To take for granted as a matter of
;
course.
Dar treguas.
Dar alzaprima.
Dar 6 echar dado
falso
6 dar
To
To
To
give a respite from pain.

lay a snare for a person.
To
deceive or disappoint a person.

reproofs of our superiors, though
cheat or deceive.
petardo.
Dar perro muerto.

Quien te di6 la hiel,
te
dara la miel.
The
bitter to endure,
may be
salutary.
Dar sesos de mosquito a alguno.

Dar contra una esquina.
Dar de e&puela a la caballeria, 6 arrimar las espuelas al caballo.
Dar algo mala espina.
To
To
To
lead a person by the nose.

act unreasonably.
To
forebode
Aun no he dado puntada en
have not yet begun

To make an allusion
ello.
Dar una puntada.

Dar estado.
spur a horse.
evil
to be a
To
bad
sign.
it.
to insinuate.
give a son or daughter in mar-
riage.
Darfe.
Dar la fe.
Dar bast6n.
Dar tinta, 6 no dar
Dar un jicarazo.
tu tia
To attest to certify.
To bind one's self.
To stir with a stick.
To write much, or the contrary.
To poison a person.
I am neither willing nor obliged
que
te de"
tinta.
para
libros.
Del rico es dar remedio, y del pobre

consejo.
to
give you anything.

rich should give of their abundance, and the poor of their expe-
The
rience.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
primera azadonada
la
disteis
en
el
To
detect quickly that a person is

not worthy of the consideration
which he enjoys.
agua.
Dar el naipe.
Dar bien 6 mal
To
To
el naipe.
63
have good luck in gambling.

have good or bad luck in gam-
bling.
Dar
naipe a alguno para una cosa.
el
To be
clever or skilful in doing any-
thing.
Dar en
To
las narices.
scent or perceive a thing at a
distance.
Dar con los huevos en la ceniza.

La vida de la aldea, dsela Dios a
quien la desea.
Dar lumbre.
Dar voces
Me
pierna y
te
fail
Village
in
an enterprise.
for
life
him who
likes
it.
To
To
strike sparks.
give words to the wolf (to preach
in the desert).
al lobb.
di6 por junto veinte francos.

quien te da el cap6n, dale la
Dios
To
He
Be
me
in all twenty francs.

toward
benefactors.
grateful
gave
el a!6n.
de ovejas 6
hijos para ellas.
Attend to your business yourself if

you would prosper (injunction to
farmers).
Dar un cuarto
al
To
pregonero.
Reniego del arbol que a palos ha de

dar
al
que tiene mas que
vos.
^
Que
se le
da a Judas de
Dar un hueso que

Carne
sin
los
pobres ?
las
Dar
la
you
is
to publish
it
on
hueso no se da sino a
It
is
foolish to give to those
who
have more than yourself.

What did Judas give to the poor?
(to be charitable in words, not in
deeds).
give a bone to pick (to transfer
To
roer.
Don
one's difficulties to others).

rich and powerful have
The
many
advantages over others.
Bueso.
Dar
to
sion.
el fruto.
Dais por Dios
tell it
the housetops.
I dislike those who require compul-
To present exorbitant accounts, with-
cuentas del gran Capitan.
out proper explanation.
To
causa por conclusa.
close
the argument and wait
for
the judge's decision.

i
Cuando
el lobo da en la dula, guay

de quien no tiene mas que una
!
Losses
fall
have but
heavily
little.
upon those who
SPANISH IDIOMS.
64
El perro
da consejo.
viejo, si ladra,
When an
old dog barks, he
gives
counsel.
Dar
el
el
consejo y
Give not only advice, but also kindly
vencejo.
help, to the poor.
Dar por corriente.

Dar atajo a una cosa.
To
To
Dar como por amor de Dios.
To
accept and believe a rumor.

stop ; to put an abrupt end to a
thing.
give as a favor that which
to
make a
is
due
merit of doing one's
duty.
Cuando
te dieren el anillo,
pon
el
dedillo.
Da
Dios almendras 6 habas
no
Da
i
que
tiene quijadas.
Dios
rir
al
alas a la
mas
me
Daca el
las
gallo,
toma
plumas en
el gallo,
mano
la
Dar, decir, annuciar
dan
No
lo
when perverted become
God
grant
me an
me
el
dan
los
antagonist
who
To cause pity.
God will provide.
quedan
Hands
off
coraz6n a
alguno.
El centinela da arma.
Cuando no
Blessings
understands
Dar, hacer, 6 poner lastima.

Dios dara.
i
opportunities slip).
Prosperity sometimes comes too late
curses.
de contienda con quien
entienda
any one would give you a ring,

have your finger ready (do not let
for enjoyment.
hormiga para mo-
aina.
me
Dios
When
To
have misgivings, forebodings.
The
campos, no
lo
los santos.
dar su brazo a torcer.
sentinel calls the guard.
In hard times people cannot give
much
Not
in charity.
to be willing to put one's self
out of one's way for another.
Torcerse los punos.

Dar a la cola.
Dar
la vida.
Quien da parte de sus cohechos, de

sus tuertos hace derechos.
Dar con aire, 6 de buen aire.

Dar fuego, 6 hacer fuego.
To be furious.
To attack the enemy from
To encourage to inspirit.
Bribes sometimes avail, however unjustly.
To
To
give a powerful blow.
shoot with firearms; to start a
fire.
Dar
gracias.
Darse golpes de pecho.
Dar un
tiento.
the rear.
To thank.
To beat one's breast.
To make a trial.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Dar pasada.
a la estampa.
forma.
las espaldas.
en que pensar.
palo.
fruto.
tirar
To tolerate to permit.
To surrender at discretion.
To send to the press to publish.
To arrange to put in order.
To turn one's back on the enemy.
To give cause for thought.
To turn out undesirably.
To bear fruit.
To make a pass at a person.
To heat planks (in order to bend
;
Darse 6 rendirse a discreci6n.
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
65
una punalada a uno.
fuego a los tablones.
them).
Dar fuego.
Dar un raspadillo a un
bajel.
To bream a ship (nau.).

To scrape the bottom
of a ship
(nau.).
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
de
quilla,
6 tumbar a
la quilla.
una ligadura.
fondo.
fondo con codera sobre
el ancla.
To careen, to overhaul, a vessel (nau. ).

To seize (nau.).
To cast anchor (nau.).
To anchor with a spring on the cable
(nau.).
Dar remolque.
Dar tumbos por esas mares.
Dar con el tal6n en el fondo.
To anchor by the stern (nau.).

To tack (nau.).
To check the bowline (nau.).
To set sail (nau.).
To take in tow (nau.).
To incur the perils of the sea (nau.).
To touch ground with the stern post
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
Dar
boga.
To pump the ship (nau.).

To scuttle a ship (nau.).
To sink a ship (nau.).
To sink or founder (nau.).
To run aground (nau.).
To strike repeatedly (nau.).
To run upon a sandbank (nau.).
To run aground to founder (nau.).
To give the stroke (boating).
no debas, y a pobre no pro-
Beware of obligations
Dar fondo con

Dar bordos.
Dar un salto a
Darse a
reguera.
bolina.
la vela.
(nau.).
a la bomba.
barreno.
6 pegar
la voltereta.
al traste
un barco.
en seco.
culadas.
en
bajio.
6 pegar tumbos.
la
rico
metas.
No
quien eres.
to rich or to
poor.
deber una sed de agua.
Dime con quien
andas, y te dir
Not
to
Tell
me who
be under any obligations.
will tell
are your friends, and

you what you are.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
66
own story first.

The opinion of the people.
Antes
Tell your
di que digan.
El decir de las gentes.
Segun V.
me
dice.
dicen malas lenguas.

Sin decir oxte ni moxte.
Asi, 6
por ahi
lo
Su vestido dice su pobreza.

Decir alguna cosa con la boca chica.
what you
According
to
It is said
it is
tell
me.
reported.
Without asking leave or license.
His dress betrays his poverty.
To
a thing merely for form's
offer
sake.
No
No
There
There
tener que decir.
hay mas que
decir.
Decir mil bienes.
No
is
nothing to say.
is
nothing more to be said.
To praise to commend.
To remain silent.
To make an offer of marriage.
;
decir malo ni bueno.
Decir su atrevido pensamiento, 6 su

dolor.
To
decir verdad.
Mai haya V. que no me

dicho
ha
lo
Lo he de
God forgive you for

me
To tell home truths.
Not
to tell
To keep
decir esta boca es mia.
Como
...
or the truth
...
not having told
Decir dos gracias.

decirlo a sordo.
No
No
the truth
tell
is
decir cantado y rezado ?

mi cuento.
iba diciendo de
it
to deaf ears.
a profound silence.
Must
To
I say it in so many words ?

return to my subject, after a di-
gression.
Decir y hacer
6 dicho y hecho.
Quien dice lo que

no quiere.
quiere, oye lo
que
No sooner said than done.

He who says just what he pleases,
likely to
hear what
will
is
not please
him.
.Quien dice lo suyo, mal callara lo
âgeno.
He who
.
tells
hardly keep
own
his
secret,
will
another's.
Decir de nuevo.
To deny to refuse.
To tell over again to
El semblante de Juan dice su mal
John's face shows his bad temper.
Decir nones.
repeat.
genio.
Decir unas veces cesta, y otras bal-
To
be
To
tell
fickle in opinion.
lesta.
Decir mentira por sacar verdad.
truth
Decir una cosa por

Diga V. su parecer.
Decir razones
otra.
To
tell
lie
in order to extort the
from another.
a
lie.
Declare your opinion.
To
argue.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
More
For mejor decir.

es decir, 6 quiere decir.
Eso
That
Decir 6 hacer divinidades.
To
To
Decir
los Jesuses.
La misa
67
properly speaking.
to say ; that means.

or
do admirable things.
say
pray with a dying person.
is
Leave the
digala el Cura.
to say
priest
mass
(re-
proach to those who undertake

what they cannot do).
Decirselo de misas, 6 alld te lo diran
You will have
de misas.
ent
Digan que de Dios
ill
No wonder
dijeron.
to atone for your pres-
deeds.
that they slander
me
they even slander God.
Decir
nombres de
los
la sarten a la
Dijo
alld culinegra
No
rnal
digas
las pascuas.
caldera quitate
j
To
use injurious language.

called the kettle black.
The pot
del
ario
hasta que
Say no
ill
of the year
till it is
over.
haya pasado.
No
mas
dice
la
lengua que lo que
siente el coraz6n.
No
How
decir.
que
SB"
Out of the fulness of the heart the

mouth speaketh.
can
I tell ?
quiere decir eso ?

Se ha propasado d decirme.
What does
He
had the audacity
Volver a decir.
To
say again.
Que
Los ninos y
los locos
dicen la ver-
that
mean?
to tell
me.
Children and fools speak truth.
dad.
Es mucho
decir.
It is
Ello dira.
We
Dije para mi capote, 6 mi sayo.

Decir tijeretas ; 6 tijeretas han de
To
ser.
saying much.
shall see.
I said in
my
sleeve.
persist stubbornly in a matter of
little
importance.
Decir por todas partes.
To be told, or to hear.
To proclaim to tell abroad.
Le gusta
He
Oir decir.
decir.
chooses to say
that.
To speak fluently and correctly.

To make a speech, or verses,
Decir bien.
Decir de repente.
im-
promptu.
Dieron 6 se encontraron
con
los
los
guardas
coalesce.
matadores.
Di
tu raz6n, y no senates autor.

El que te dice la copla, ese te la
hace 6
To
te sopla.
who did it.

An insult is attributed to the person
who offers it, although he may
Tell the deed, but not
quote the words of another.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
68
el
Dijo
escarabajo a sus hijos
aca, mis floras
Muchas
gracias
venid
no
The black
spring,
se
pueden decir
con pocas palabras.

Cual digan duenas.
Dicen los ninos en el solejar lo que
oyen a sus padres en el hogar.
Many good
things
cannot be ex-
insulted.
To
give a
flat
denial.
I say this for
your guidance.
say what you will.
You may
pera ese la
lleva.
lerdo,
off-
words and actions, which are sure

to be imitated by their children.
Quien dice mal de
Asno
his
Parents should be careful of their
To
Dicente que eres bueno, mete

mano en tu seno.
to
pressed in a few words.
Very much
Decir que no.

Esto lo digo para gobierno de V.
Por mas que V. diga.
la
beetle says
Come hither, my blossoms
la
tu diras lo tuyo y lo
depreciate that which one is at

the same time trying to obtain.
Know
thyself.
Fools never keep secrets.
ajeno.
Decir de
ovillejo.
To make
verses extemporaneously.
Sin decir agua va.

El vestido del criado dice quien es
su amo.
Without warning.
Boca con duelo, no dice bueno.
He who
The appearance
of the servant indi-
cates the quality of the master.

is
offended, does not speak
well of his offender.
No
diga la boca lo que pague la
coca.
Refrain from saying that which
may
injure you.
No
Let not the tongue utter what the
Decir sentencias a alguno.

Decir pesares.
To
To
To
diga la lengua, por do pague la

cabeza.
Declarar
La
la guerra.
calentura declina.
Defender uno su capa, 6 guardarla.

Defender alguna cosa 6 persona a
capa y espada.
Degollar algun cuento.
Dejar 6 poner cuadrado a uno.
Dejar a uno igualado.
head must pay for.

scold and abuse a person.
scold severely.
declare war.
The
fever diminishes.
To defend
To defend
one's rights or property.

a person or thing with
might and main.
To
To
To
interrupt impertinently.
disclose a hostile intent.
leave one for
him a severe
Dejar a uno despachurrado.
Dejarse veneer.
dead
beating.
To leave one stupefied.

To acknowledge one's
quished
to
after giving
self
van-
throw up the sponge.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To
To
Dejarse decir.
Dejar fresco a alguno.
69
divulge a thing unintentionally.

frustrate
to baffle
to
abandon
to ridicule.
Dejar a salvo su derecho.

Dejar a uno a oscuras.
To
No
To
To
frustrate another's
To
withdraw from a pretension or
reserve one's right unimpaired.

to grant a request ; to leave one
Not
in doubt.
dejar a sol, ni a sombra.

Dejar a uno con tantas nances, 6
molest a person constantly.

hopes or plans.
con un palmo de narices.

Dejar
el
campo
abierto, libre.
competition.
No
To
dejar soldado con vida.
Dejese V. de preambulos, y diga lo
give
Leave
no quarter.
and say what you want.
que quiere.
Dejarse de cuentos.
To come
No
No
No
Not
to let a thing
To
To
destroy
dejar criar
No
No
mucho.
dejar verde ni seco.
dejar 6
cabeza.
no quedar
titere
con
un clavo en la pared.
dejar piante, ni mamante.
freir
to the point.
be
idle,
or rust.
destroy everything.
everything;
to
spare
nothing.
dejar ni
Dejar
about the bush,
off beating
a uno en su aceite.
Dejar a uno en la calle, 6 en cueros.

Dejar a uno en pelota.
Dejar a uno en bianco.
To
To
pillage
to strip of everything.
leave nothing
to kill or destroy
everything.
To leave an obstinate person to his
own devices without argument.
To
To
To
strip
one of
his
all.
strip a person.
neglect or disappoint a person
to omit anything.
To
Dejar a uno a pi6.
Dejar a uno en la pelaza.

Dejar a uno teniendo el cerro.
Dejar a uno pegado a

Dejar 6 dejarse en
la
pared.
el tintero.
Dejarse caer.
al arbitrio
de
Dejarse
Dejar a uno d la luna.
la fortuna.
deprive a person of an office or
employment.
To leave one in the
To
To
lurch.
disappoint one.
humiliate one profoundly;
to
disappoint.
forget or omit a thing.
To
To
To
To
give
up
in despair.
despair ; to be utterly reckless.

leave a service suddenly, and
without notice.
Dejar sordo, 6 mudo.

Dejar a uno despatarrado.
To
To
strike
deaf or dumb.
leave one astonished or abashed.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
70
To
Dejar a un lado.
pass over a subject in conversa-
tion.
No
To convince any one.

No reply, if you please
dejar que hablar.
Dejemonos de replicas
No le ha dejado hueso sano.
!
He -did
not leave a bone whole
to
criticise severely.
No
Not
dejar meter baza.
To
Dejarse llevar de alguna persona.
to allow
one to
resign one's
slip in
a word.
own opinion
for that
of another.
Dejar entre renglones, 6 quedarse
To
pass over in silence
thing which ought
entre renglones.
to forget a
have been
to
said.
Dejar
atras.
Dejar
atras los vientos.
To excel
To move
He
Nos
to surpass.
with great rapidity.
took French leave.
dej6 sin decir tus ni mus.

Dejarse llevar de la corriente.
To conform
Dejar dicho.
To
Dejale que venga.

No dejar roso ni velloso.
To
to usage
out consideration.
to follow with-
leave word, or orders.

Let him come.
no stone unturned
leave
to in-
sure success.
No
No
se deja
dejes
poner
la albarda.
para manana
lo
que pue-
das hacer hoy.
Al buey viejo mudale
el
pesebre, y
dejara el pellego.
Dejar caer alguna cosa en la conversaci6n.
Dejar a uno con
la
miel en los labios.
Not to submit to an injury.

Never leave till to-morrow what can
be done to-day.
Changes of climate and food are
the old.
fatal to
To make
a remark in conversation
with seeming carelessness.

To deprive one of something he
is
just beginning to enjoy.
Quien de
los suyos se aleja,
Dios
le
who abandon
those
their families.
deja.
Dejarse caer
God abandons
To be
To let
el calor.
Dejar correr la pluma.
very warm.
the pen run on
to write at
great length.
Dejar a alguno hecho un matachin.
To make
a laughing-stock of a per-
son.
Por miedo de gorriones no

de sembrar cafiamones.
Dejar a uno por puertas.
Dejar
el siglo.
se dejan
One must
not be
discouraged 'by
difficulties.
To
To
lose another person's fortune.
enter
on a
religious
life.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
dejar caer en el
cosa, 6
no
suelo alguna
Not
71
to let
a thing pass unnoticed.
llegar alguna cosa al
suelo.
No
dejarse ensillar.
Dejar a uno la espina en

Dejar en paz a alguno.
Dejar a uno con
la
el
dedo.
palabra en la
refuse to submit to authority.
leave a
malady imperfectly cured.

leave another in peace.
turn away without listening to
one who
boca.
To
To
To
To
la burla dejarla
cuando mas agra-
is
speaking.
Leave a jest when
it
pleases you best.
da.
Dejemos padres y abuelos, pero nosotros seamos buenos.
Let us make a reputation for ourselves, rather than depend on that

of our ancestors.
Cuando
la criatura dienta, la
muerte
la tienta.
Derramar
Derramar
When
is
hacienda.
la
la
gente de guerra, 6 de
To
To
the child cuts
its
teeth,
death
on the watch.
squander one's inheritance.

disband an army.
armas.
Derramar lagrimas.
Derribar con un dedo a alguno.
To shed tears.
To knock a person down
with a
fin-
ger (exaggeration of strength on

one side, or weakness on the
other)
let the cloak drop in order to
.
Derribar la capa.
To
Derramar doctrina.
Un solo golpe no derriba un
To
facilitate fighting.
roble.
la cuesti6n, 6 el argumento.
Dios desavenga a quien nos man-
Desatar
tenga.
De
la
mano
a la boca desaparece la
sopa.
Descabezar
al
To
solve a question, or problem.
persons find their profit in the

quarrels of others.
Some
There's
many a
slip "twixt
cup and
lip.
el
sueno.
Descabezarse una vena.

Descalabrar
teach or preach a doctrine.

stroke will not fell an oak.
One
al alguacil,
y acojerse
To
To
To
take a nap.
break a blood-vessel.
escape from the constable and
into the hands of the magis-
fall
corregidor.
trate.
Descalzarse de
risa.
Descalzarse los guantes.

Descansar sobre las armas.
Descansar, 6 dormir en
el
Senor.
To laugh boisterously.
To take the gloves off.
To ground arms (mil.).
To die.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
72
Descargar
la conciencia.
Descargar
el
Descargar
la burra.
To
To
To
anima de alguno.
fulfil
an obligation
execute a person's
shirk
own
one's
to confess.
will.
share
of the
work.
Descargar
mano
la
Descargar
sobre alguno.
c61era, 6
la
la
ira
en
To
To
punish a person.
vent one's anger upon a person.
To
To
To
rain.
alguno.
Descargar
el cielo.
Descargar golpes.
Descomponersele a uno
la cabeza.
El ruin buey holgando se descuerna.

Descoyuntarse, 6 desternillarse de
strike a person.
feel giddiness or disturbance in

the head.
You weary very easily

To laugh excessively.
(ironical).
risa.
Descreer de Dios.
To
Tu
Do
dinero mudo, no lo descubras a
ninguno.
Descubrir el campo.
disbelieve in
God.
not show your hoarded
to
To
money
any one.
reconnoitre
to
sound a person
for information.
madera.
Descubrir
la
Descubrir
la veta.
To show any unknown vice or defect.

To discover one's sentiments or designs.
Descubrime a
t\
como amigo, y
Be cautious
in telling
your secrets.
arm6seme comotestigo.
Descubrir
To make known
la veta.
one's sentiments or
designs.
pecho descubierto.
Descubrir su pecho.
En todo lo descubierto.
Descubrir una via de agua.
Descubrir la tierra.
Descubrir
No
la quilla.
descuidarse en
el rascar.
Unarmed without defence.

To unbosom one's self to another.
In all the known world.
To discover a leak.
To make the land (nau.).
To heave down a ship (nau.).
;
Not
to miss
what one
La
tierra le
Desdoblar
desdena.
la hoja.
He
is
an opportunity of doing
likes.
universally despised.
To resume
a speech or conversation
which had been purposely inter-
rupted.
Desempatar un negocio.
Desempedrar
las calles.
Desencajarse la cara.
To
To
disentangle a business.
frequent the streets.
The
face
becomes
distorted.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Desencapotarse
To
To
el cielo.
los ojos.
Desencapotar
73
rain.
cease to frown, and look pleas-
ant.
Desencapotar
To
las orejas.
point or erect the ears 'said of
animals)
To lose one's grip.
To moderate one's fury or passion.
.
Desenclavijar la mano.
Desendiablarse.
Desenterrar los huesos de alguno.

Desenterrar los muertos.
Desflorar algun asunto.
el cielo.
Desgajarse
Deshacer un yerro.
Deshace"rse
como
el
humo.
Deshace"rse en lagiimas.
Deshace"rse de una cosa.
Deshacer agravios.
Deshacer la vuelta, 6 media vuelta.
Deshacerse alguna cosa entre
manos.
las
To disclose unpleasant family secrets.

To slander the dead.
To treat an affair superficially.
To rain excessively.
To correct a fault or mistake.
To vanish like smoke.
To burst into a flood of tears.
To give a thing away.
To avenge or redress wrongs.
To reverse the movement.
To slip through the fingers.
Deshacer entuertos.
To
No
He
se deslomara.
redress injuries or wrongs.

is sure not to overwork him-
self.
Desnatar
la
Desnudar
Desnudar
hacienda.
la voz.
la espada.
Desollar la zorra, 6 el lobo
mir
6 dor-
To live on the fat of the land.

To articulate freely and clearly.
To draw the sword.
To sleep while intoxicated.
la zorra.
To sharpen the wit.

To keep a sharp lookout.
el ingenio.
Despabilar
los ojos.
Despabilar
V. le vera despabilarse.
Despachurrar
el
You
To
cuento.
him brighten up.

interrupt a story and prevent
will see
its
conclusion.
i
Dios
te la
depare buena
May you
be successful
doubt as to the
Despedazarse de
Despejarse
No
despintarsele a
sona.
Desplegar
la
To
risa.
el cielo,
el
tiempo.
uno alguna per-
boca, los labios.
Desprende'rse de alguna cosa.
Despuntar
el dia.
(implying
result).
laugh excessively.
sky, or weather, clears.
The
Not
To
To
To
to forget
a person's appearance.
talk.
give a thing away.
dawn.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
74
Quien destaja no
He who
baraja.
binds
stipulates)
(i.e.,
does
Desterrar del mundo.
not wrangle. 1
To be banished from the world, from
Destrabar
To
society.
la lengua.
loose a person's tongue
move an impediment
Destripar una botella.
En un soplo se desvanecieron todas
To
all
his illusions van-
ished.
El viejo desvergonzado hace

osado.
al nifio
people would have respect

from the young, they must de-
If old
serve
Detenerse en repulgos de empanada.

Devanar las tripas, 6 rallar las tripas.
Devanarse
to re-
crack a bottle.
In an instant
sus ilusiones.
to speech.
los sesos.
Dilatar el animo.
it.
To waste time over trifles.

To importune impertinently
To cudgel one's brains.
To find relief in sorrow,
to vex.
through
hope or resignation.
To
Dirigir la conversaci6n a alguno.
address one's conversation espe-
cially to
tal
discurriera
Quien
Ahora disfruta
i
Who
Now
sus tareas.
one person.
could imagine such a thing

he enjoys the fruit of his
la-
bors.
Disparar a
quema
To fire point-blank.
To kick.
To make a will.
To trim the sails to the wind
ropa.
Disparar coces.
Disponer sus cosas.
Disponer
Mie'ntras
come
la
las velas al viento.
disputan los galgos,

el lobo la oveja.
primera azadonada
diste
la calle,
While the hounds dispute, the wolf
el
To
succeed without labor.
To
To
have a clear judgment.

turn the corner from one street
eats the sheep.
en
agua.
Distinguir de colores.
Doblar
(nau.).
se
la esquina.
to another.
Doblemos
No more
la hoja.
of that
let
us
change
the subject.
To cudgel a
To round or
Doblar a uno a palos.

Doblar la punta, el cabo.
1
"
Always incorrectly translated
shuffle cards, but in the proverb
lated by
John Ormsby.
it is
'
He who
double a cape (nau.).
cuts does not shuffle.'
used in a sense
London, 1885,
person.
now
vol. 4, p. 376.
obsolete."
Barajar means
Don
to
Quixote, trans-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Al buen pagador no
duelen pren-
le
An
75
honest debtor sacrifices
all
in
order to pay his debts.
das.
Cuando
cabeza duele, todos
la
los
mi^mbros duelen.
Dolerle a uno la cabeza.
When
the head aches,
bers ache with
To be
in,
all
the
mem-
it.
danger of losing one's
authority.
El hueso y
carne duelense de su
la
the flesh suffer with
the blood.
sangre.
No
The bones and

Not
duelen prendas.
mind expenses
to
in
an enter-
prise.
aunque no
Slander, although known as such,

leaves a stain on the reputation.
El potro primero de otro, 6 d6mele
In emergencies we must avail ourselves of the experience of others.
El golpe de
duele tizna.
la
sarten,
otro.
Dormir con
cortinas
verdes,
al
To
sleep in the
open
fields.
sereno.
Duerme Juan y
yace, que tu asno
He who
has done his duty
may
rest
at ease.
pace.
Camar6n que
se
duerme,
la
cor-
riente lo lleva.
Quien mucho duerme poco aprende.

No dormirse en las pajas, 6 en la
ceniza.
sobre
ello,
that sleeps is carried

the
stream.
away by
The indolent make little headway.
To be
very vigilant
occasion.
to profit
by the
To take an afternoon nap.

To sleep carelessly, at ease.
To be at a stand-still.
Dormir la siesta.
Dormir a pierna suelta.
Dormirse un negocio.
Dormirels
The shrimp
tomareis
acuerdo.
Think
well before taking a resolu-
tion.
Dormir sobre un asunto, 6 negocio.
To
take time to consider a subject
well.
No
To be
dormir sueno.
Duerme
a quien duele, y no duerme

quien algo debe.
Dormirse, dormirse, buenas nuevas
watchful, sleepless.
Honest men grieve over a debt

more than over bodily pain.
Lazily expecting success.
hallarse.
A, 6 entre, duerme y vela.

Dormirse en algun negocio.
Cuando
la
mala ventura se duerme,
wake
nadie la despierte.
Dormir como una

Quien enemigos
piedra.
tiene
Between sleeping and waking.

Not to take proper care of an affair.
When ill luck falls asleep, let no one
no duerma.
To
her.
sleep like a top.
One who
be on
has enemies should always

his guard.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
76
To
To
Dormir en Dios.
No
dormirse en
las pajas.
sleep, or rest, in
God.
be watchful to improve opportu-
nities.
El que no duda, no sabe cosa alguna.
Doubt
Echar
To lean backward.
To abandon a matter negligently.
To give the finishing touch.
To set up a carriage.
To be heedless of advice.
To bring coals to Newcastle.
To serve another to meat or vege-
cuerpo atras.
Echarse con las petacas.
el
Echar el sello.
Echar coche.
Echar en saco roto.
Echar agua en el mar.
Echar carne 6 verdura.
nothing,
know
nothing.
tables.
Echar
mnos
Echar de
lo
que
La culpa
alguna cosa.
nueva durale
la vasija
de
To
To
raices.
se
ech6 en
del
asno,
el
resabio
ella.
echarla
la
albarda.
La culpa
del asno
no
se
ha de echar
a la albarda.
Echar
The bad
habits acquired in tender
years are rarely lost in old age.

The ass throws the blame on the
pack-saddle.
fault of the ass should not be
The
on the pack-saddle.
begin to cut with scissors.
laid
To
To
la tijera.
Echar, 6
take root.
miss something.
tirar, lineas.
devise the
means
for the
accom-
plishment of a purpose.
Echar sobre
las
espaldas de alguno.
To
shift the responsibility
on to an-
other's shoulders.
Echar
el
Cuando
pelar,
To throw one's burdens on
cascabel a uno.
la
barba de tu vecino vieres
echa
la tuya
en remojo, 6 a
remojar.
Hoy es dia de echad aqui tia.
Echar su cuarto a espadas.
We
perience of others.
Sometimes one must spend
Echarle una calza a uno.
To meddle
To observe
Echar por
To
el
another.
must take warning by the ex-
lavishly.
to intrude.
a person in order to
avoid him in future.
medio.
take unusual
from a
means
to escape
or
to
abandon
difficulty;
one's self to dissipation.
Echarse
al
Echar una
No
hombro alguna
cosa.
gallina.
echarse nada en la bolsa.
To become responsible
To set a hen.
Not
for a thing.
to desire benefit from
an enter-
prise.
Echarse a nado.
To
hazard
to undertake boldly.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
77
Echar margaritas a puercos.

Echar 6 hundir de cabeza las vides
To throw pearls before

To lay down the twigs
y otras plantas.
Echar a uno la pierna encima.
plant for propagation.

To surpass or outshine a person.
To boast of beauty or valor ; to con-
Echar piernas.
swine.
of a tree or
valesce.
Echarse con
Echar
carga de
la
To abandon everything in despair.

To rid one's self of a care, impost,
la carga.
si.
or tax.
Echar a alguno una ese y un
clavo.
To make
a person grateful by doing
him a great
Echar un clavo a
la
rueda de
la for-
tuna.
Echar
fortune.
prove correctness by measurement.
Tres cosas echan de su casa

bre, el
To
To
la
humo,
gotera y
al
la
vocinglera.
al
Echarse
Echar
el
favor.
secure happiness by making a
To
la regla.
Echar buena pluma.

Echar a un lado.
Echar
To
mundo.
mundo.
al
guante.
hommujer
begin to grow rich.

finish a business.
Three things drive a man from his

home a smoking chimney, a leaking roof, and a talkative wife.
:
To
To
To
create.
plunge into dissipation.

catch ; to lay hold of with the
hand
Echar un guante.
Echar 6 arrojar el guante.
to arrest.
To make a collection of money.

To throw down the glove to chal;
lenge.
Echar
al hijo.
To abandon
Echar
pelillos a la mar.
Not
to
a child.
bear malice
to
become
reconciled.
Ano
lluvioso,
chate de codo.
In a rainy year the farmer
is
neces-
sarily idle.
Echar una vista.

Echar el agua al nifio.
Echar a las espaldas.
Echar 6 echarse un trago.
Echar china.
Echarse a pechos.
Echar
Echar
el
pecho
al
agua.
la espuela.
Echarse por
los suelos.
To look after.
To baptize a child.
To neglect to abandon.
To drink to take a dram.
To keep a score in a bar-room.
To drink greedily and copiously.
To undertake a thing resolutely.
To take the stirrup-cup.
To stretch one's self on the ground.
;
SPANISH IDIOMS.
78
Echar
plantillas a los zapatos.
Echar en remojo.
Echarse al mundo.
Las plantas echan floras,
El hambre echa
al
frutos.
lobo del monte.
To
To
To
have shoes soled.

prepare quietly for success.
throw one's self away.
Plants bear flowers,
fruits.
break through stone
will
Hunger
walls.
Hoy
echan
la
comedia nueva.
They perform
the
new comedy
to-
day.
Echar
Echar
To make a line with a chalked cord.

To adopt measures for a desired end.
el cordel.
cartab6n.
el
Se ech6 a corredor.
He became
a broker.
Echar buen 6 mal lance.

Echar la lanza.
To succeed
To impugn
or
trust
Echar
Echar
Echar
Echar
lanzas en la mar.
en olvido, 6
en remojo.
al olvido.
de baranda.
To
To
To
To
fail
in
an enterprise.
to contradict
to dis-
an assertion.
labor in vain.
forget.
prepare quietly for success.

exaggerate
to extol hyperboli-
cally.
Echar por mayor, por arrobas, 6
To
exaggerate.
quintales.
Echar el pi atras a alguno.

Echar el pi atras.
Echar el pi6 adelante, 6 atras.
Echar toda el agua.
Eohar la capa el toro.
fichese, y no se derrame.
To outdo any one.

To flinch.
To advance, or to retrograde.
To do one's best to get something.
To expose one's self to danger.
Echarse a
To burst out laughing.

To start off running.
To impose a troublesome
Echar a
reir.
correr.
Echar las bulas a uno.

No echo de ver el defecto.
Echar
Echar
los bofes, 6 la hiel.

el bofe,
6 los bofes.
Spend without extravagance.
do not perceive the
To labor excessively.
To be very anxious
;
duty.
defect.
to strain one's
lungs.
Echar
Echar
los higados.
los
higados por alguna cosa.
Echar por los campos.

Echar la cerradura.
Echar por alto alguna cosa.
To be very much fatigued.

To desire a thing anxiously.
To set out across the fields.
To refuse.
To forget to pass a thing contemp;
tuously.
Echar por una profesi6n.
To adopt
a profession.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To publish a law.
To impose taxes.
To pass judgment or sentence.
To sentence to the galleys.
To judge or condemn with the
Echar bando.
Echar tributes.
Echar el fallo.
Echar a galeras, 6
Echar
la ley
al
79
remo.
a uno.
most rigor of the
Echar d presidio.
Echar el cuerpo fuera.
To
To
Quien echa agua en la garrafa de

golpe, mas derrama que ella coge.
Echar carries.
Most
ut-
law.
throw a person into prison.

abscond; to withdraw from an
affair.
Echar
barriga.
Echar
carrillos.
Echarse a pechos.
Echar
versos.
Echarla de poeta.
haste, worst speed.
To become fat.
To become corpulent.
To grow fat in the cheeks.
To take upon one's self.
To improvise verses.
To dabble in poetry to be
;
a poet-
aster.
Echar
To make careful inquiry.

To take anything upon one's
To start game, and drive it
cata.
Echarse a cuestas algo.
Echar un
ojeo.
Echar un remiendo a
Echar
la vida.
To
To
la puerta.
Fuera del peligro se echa d Dios
toward
the sportsman.
To take a slight refreshment (food)
between meals.
el cerrojo.
Echar Have a
self.
al
bolt (the door).

lock the door.
God
The danger
past,
To
To
To
to determine
is
forgotten.
olvido.
Echar cartas.
Echar suertes
Echar d
la
6 c^dulas
buena barba.
6 pajas.
deal cards.
cast lots.
toss
up
who
shall
pay.
Echar cabras d
las cabras.
To
determine by
lot
who
shall
the score for several persons.
Echar d trompa y talega.

Echar coplas de repente.
Echarse de cuesta.
Me echo d dormir.
To
To
To
Echarse d dormir.
To abandon a tiling.
To eat or swallow.
To notice.
Echar
al coleto.
Echar ae
ver.
talk nonsense.
talk nonsense.
lie
went
down.
to sleep.
pay
SPANISH IDIOMS.
80
To
To
Echar 6 soltar el cascabel.

Echar a uno el cascabel.
hint.
evade one's duty by throwing
it
upon another.
Echar 6 poner garbanzos a alguno.
Echar en corro.
To make an irritating insinuation.

To throw out a suggestion in order
Echar
To
to observe
saetas.
its effect.
evince agitation by words or ges-
tures.
Echar por otra parte.

Echar una cosa a buena 6 mala
To
To
differ in
To
To
To
spread a rumor.
carry off with a joke.
opinion from another.

take a thing in good or bad part.
parte.
Echar voz a la voz 6 echar fama.

Echar a chacota.
Echar a juego una cosa.
;
misconstrue
to take something
jestingly.
Echar 6 poner candado a
los
la-
To keep
silence
to
keep a
secret.
bios.
Echar la clave.
Echar coplas de repente.
Echar por esos trigos.
Echar a mal.
Echarse con las guias y todo.
Echar calabaza a alguno.
Echar la platica a otra parte.
Echar un jarro de agua a una proposici6n 6 asunto.
Echar a vuelo las campanas.
Echar en
sal.
Echar un badal a la boca.

Echar la bolina.
Echar baladronadas 6 bravatas.
Echarla de majo.
Echar bocanadas de sangre azul.
Echele V. guindas a
la tarasca.
To
To
To
To
To
close a speech or an
affair.
speak without reflection.

speak without thinking.
misconstrue a word.
insult
a person without giving
him an opportunity to reply.

Not to answer a question.
To
To
cut short the conversation.
throw a wet blanket on a pro-
posal or subject.
To ring the bells.

To reserve for another occasion.
To stop one's mouth.
To make idle boasts.
To boast to brag.
To swagger to be ostentatious.
To boast of one's noble connections.
What you say is devoid of common
;
sense.
Echar
las
puertas abajo.
Echar a las barbas.

Echar en cara un favor es un
an
insulto.
Echar una cosa d
To knock rudely at a door.

To reproach or taunt a person.
To taunt one with a favor makes
palacio.
insult.
To show contempt
for
an
insult.
it
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To
Echar una albarda a alguno.
81
try a person's patience unreason-
ably.
Echarlo a doce.
To make
Echarle a uno
prevent a recurrence to a subject.

To grasp or seize a person.
Echarse
el
la garra.
alma a
las
espaldas, 6
a disturbance in order to
To act without scruple
or conscience.
atras.
Echar
To
traspies.
supplant by artifice
to live
by
tricks.
To
Echarlo todo a trece.
pretend anger in order to carry
one's point.
Echar una losa; 6 poner una losa
To
promise to keep a secret.
encima.
Echar una
To give
losa sobre el coraz6n.
a person cause for great sor-
row or
Echar coplas a alguno.
To
Echar
Echar
To
To
grief.
malign a person
wound
to
his
pride.
la
la
culpa a alguno.
culpa a otro.
accuse a person of a fault.

throw the blame of one's
own
upon another.
To throw the blame upon another.
fault
Echar
las cabras,
la
carga a otro.
Echarse una piedra en
la
To
manga.
reproach another for a
as
Echar a alguno los gigantones.

Echar en cara, 6 a la cara, 6 a
las
we
fault
such
ourselves commit.
To blame severely.
To reproach, taunt,
upbraid.
barbas.
Echarle a uno el caballo de

Echar de vicio.
Echar roncas.
cara.
To
To
To
upbraid roughly.
speak impudently.
menace
to
be
To make a person uneasy.

To become neglectful of one's
du-
threaten
or
hoarse.
P^char la pulga tras de la oreja.

Echarse en el surco.
ties
Echar espumarajos por

Echar un chafarin6n.
la
boca.
lost to
shame.
To foam at the mouth with passion.

To disgrace one's family by a dishonorable action.
Echarse un borr6n.
Echar a pase"o.
Echar con cajas destempladas 6 en
hora mala.
Echar a uno de
To disgrace one's self.

To dismiss a person contemptuously.
To dismiss one roughly, contemptuously.
la casa.
To
turn a person out of doors.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
82
Echar a pasear.
Echar a alguno a patadas.
Echar cantos.
Echar la soga tras el caldero.
Echar maldiciones 6 bendiciones.

Lo ech6 todo a perder.
Echar la bribia.
Echar por las de Pavia.
Echar de manga.
Echar la bendici6n.
Echar 6 envidar el resto.
Echar tierra a alguna cosa.
Echar abajo, en tierra, por
el
alma a
He
spoiled
all.
To go begging.
To answer indignantly.
To make a cat's paw of any one.
To stop interfering.
To bet everything one has on the
table (gambling).
in oblivion.
tierra,
por el suelo.
Echarle una calza a alguno.
Echar
To send one about his business.

To kick a person out.
To be mad.
To throw the helve after the hatchet.
To curse or bless a person.
las espaldas.
To bury an affair
To throw down
to destroy.
To
point
out
person
to
be
guarded against.
be deaf to the voice of con-
To
science.
Echar verbos 6 tacos.

Echar ternos 6 tacos.
Se fu echando ajos y
cebollas.
Echar la confusi6n a alguno.

Echar chispas.
To swear; to speak in a great rage.

To swear excessively.
He went off swearing.
To curse a person.
To be very angry violent in word
;
and manner.
Se marcharon echando chispas.
Echando chispas.
Echar venablos.
He went away, looking daggers.

With great speed.
To
break out into violent expressions
of anger.
To be enraged.
To get angry to vex one's self.
To be extremely angry to be beside
Echar rayos 6 centellas.

Echar el hatillo al mar.
Echar sapos y culebras.
one's
Echar
la
capa
To
al toro.
self.
expose one's
self to
a great dan-
ger, for a purpose.
Echar fuego.
Echar, 6 poner lena
Echar fuego por los
Echar aceite sobre
al fuego.
ojos.
la
lumbre para
To be the cause of a dispute.

To foment discord.
To flash fire from the eyes in
To stir up contentions.
rage.
apargarla.
Echar aceite
al fuego,
6 en
el fuego.
To add
fuel
quarrels.
to
flame
to
foment
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Echar
la zarpa.
To
S3
gripe
to claw.
El viento se echa.
The wind
Echar una embarcaci6n al agua.

Echar ancla.
Echarse sobre ancora.
Echamos doce nudos por hora.
To
To
To
Echar
Echar
Echar
Echar
Echar
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
la corredera.
toda la vela.
en
tierra.
a fondo.
a pique.
Edificar sobre la arena.
Ejecutar guerra.
Embarcarse con poco bizcocho.
fails
(nau.).
launch a ship (nau.).

cast anchor (nau.).
drag the anchor (nau.).
We made twelve knots an hour (nau.)
heave the log (nau.).
crowd all sail (nau.).

disembark (nau.).
sink a vessel (nau.).
sink a ship (nau.).
build
upon the sand.
make
war.
embark on an
enterprise without
sufficient precaution.
Embargarse de su palabra.
Embestir como dogos.
To
To
Sopa en vino no emborracha, pero
Effects
agacha, 6 arrima a las paredes.
Emborracharse de c61era, 6 tomar
break one's promise.

attack with rage.
follow
causes whether ac-
knowledged or
To become
not.
enraged.
c6lera.
La mina
se
ha emborrascado.
The mine has ceased
to yield pay-
ore.
Emparejar una ventana.
To
partly close a
window
to set
it
ajar.
Empefiar a uno en alguna cosa.
To
La
The
infanteria empefia la batalla.
act the part of a mediator.

infantry began the battle.
Empenarse.
To undertake a thing eagerly.

To recommend any one.
To bind one's self to a contract.
To run into debt.
Obra empezada, medio acabada.
Well begun
La
Charity begins at home.
Empenarse en algo.
Empenarse por alguno.
Empenar
la palabra.
caridad bien ordenada empieza
is
half done.
en casa.
Emplear su
cornadillo.
To
attain
one's
end by unworthy
means.
El prometer no empobrece.
Encajar
la suya.
Encajar bien.
Encajar
las
manos.
Promises do not impoverish.

self of an opportunity.
To avail one's
To be to the
purpose
the point.
To join or shake hands.
to
come
to
SPANISH IDIOMS.
84
Encomendar las ovejas al lobo.

Encomendar a la memoria.
To ship a head sea (nau.).

To frown.
To shrug the shoulders.
To set the wolf to guard the
To commit to memory.
Sin encomendarse a Dios, ni al dia-
Imprudently
Encapillarse el agua.
Encapotar
el rostro.
Encogerse de hombros.
sheep.
rashly.
blo.
Encomendarse a buen
To
santo.
seek a good protector; to suc-
Encontrarse con los pensamientos.
ceed beyond one's hopes.

Simultaneous occurrence of the same
Lo encuentro malo.
Encontrar 6 hallar
la
piedra
filoso-
thought to two persons.

disapprove of it.
To
find the philosopher's stone.
fal.
Encontrar Sancho con su rocin.
To meet
Peine encordado, cabello enhebrado.

Buena fama, hurto encubre.
Well begun
Barro y cal encubre
mucho
mal.
another like ourselves.

is
half done.
good name covers many sins.

Stucco and whitewash cover many
defects.
Enderezar tuertos, 6 entuertos.

Enderezar el genio.
To repair wrongs
To subdue a bad
Es capaz de endilgarse por

de una aguja.
Endosar un vale.
He
el ojo
ni
embeoda,
needle.
ni
adeuda.
Enganar
tiempo.
Quien te engan6 te enganara, y
neither unwholesome, intox-
se
ha de
raposa
si
levantar.
ha
de
He who
nor expensive.
ill of
folly was long in
fell
getting cured.
kill time.
repite bien te estara.

Quien al diablo ha de enganar, de
la
is
To
el
manana
Water
icating,
Quien de locura enferm6, tarde san6.
Quien
temper.
can creep through the eye of a
To endorse a bill.
To be vexed by trifles.
Enfadarse por nada.
Agua no enferma,
or injuries.
enganar,
cumplele madrugar.
Enganchar la gata en el ancla.
El ojo del amo engorda el caballo.
If a
man
deceives you once, shame
on him
He who
rise
if
twice,
shame on you.
devil must
would cheat the
betimes.
He who
would cheat the fox must
rise early.
To hook
the cat (nau.) .

the master fattens
The eye of
the
horse.
Quien
viejo engorda, dos
goza.
mocedades
Old people who are cheery and

seem young again.
fat
SPANISH IDIOMS.
85
Gato enguantado no caza ratones.
A cat in mittens seldom catches a rat.
Enmendar
To rectify a mistake
la
plana.
to outdo a per-
son.
Ensanchar
el cuajo.
Ensanchar
el
Quien
se
To solace one's self by weeping.

To cheer up to unburden the mind.
coraz6n.
ensana en
la
boda, pie'rdela
toda.
Ensenar 6 sacar
la pata,
6 sacar su
must be disputes, at least

keep them private.
To show one's fault inadvertently.
If there
pata.
Ensenar a uno
Aun no
la puerta de la calle.
ensillamos y ya cabalgamos.
Ensortijar las manos.

ruin oveja se ensucia en la
La mas
To
turn a person out of the house.

Pretending to attain an object without using the proper means.
To
Dios
No
No
me
useless
grief.
people
may do
harm.
colodra.
i
wring the hands in
The most
entiende
God
entiendo palabra.
entender la musica.
my
is
witness
do not understand
To
God knows
at
pretend to misunderstand an un-
pleasant remark.
To return insult for insult
Entenderse en coplas.
same
in the
A mi entender.
Eso no se entiende conmigo.
That
Entenderse alguno.
To
No
It is
In
all.
to repay
coin.
opinion, or judgment.
my
no
is
affair
of mine.
have private reasons for what one
does.
lo
entendera Galvan.
an
intricate, difficult thing.
Entendrsele a uno alguna cosa.

No entiendo nada de, 6 en, eso.
To comprehend
Lo mismo
The same
se
debe entender
esto.
a thing.
can make nothing of

construction
it.
is
to
be given
to this.
Entenderse con alguno.
To
correspond with a person on a
certain business.
Ya
te entiendo.
know your
Entenderse dos.
To
Yo
I think
intention.
understand each other.
would be
entiendo que seria mejor.

Quien con tosco ha de entender,
mucho seso ha menester.
Pedro no entiende una jota de eso.
Peter does not
No
Not
it
He who
better.
has to deal with a blockhead
has need of
much brains.
know anything about
it.
1
entender abece
Dar en que entender.
To
to
know so much as one's letters.

anxious.
; to make
molest
SPANISH IDIOMS.
86
Entenderse a
Solo
me
si
To comprehend
mismo.
he entendido con
61.
one's
self.
have only applied
to,
or
corre-
sponded, with him.
Entender de alguna cosa.

Entenderse con alguna cosa.
To
To
be
Entender en alguna causa.
To
hear a cause in court (said of a
skilful in anything.
take the charge or management
of an affair.
magistrate) .
Enterrar en
To
To
el olvido.
Enterrarse en vida.
bury in oblivion.
withdraw from the world, from
society.
Contigo
me
With you
entierren.
would bury myself (ex-
pression of happiness
niality)
<:
Donde
in
Where do you bury your
entierra V. ?
conge-
victims?
(irony to a braggart).
Entoldarse
el cielo.
No
entra en misa la campana, y a

todos llama.
Ahora entro
To
Entra a reinar.
vestido.
el
on others
to mass, but
do
so.
begin to reign.
So much cloth
is
needed
for
capture a city.
Diseases come in by the yard, and
go out by the inch.
river empties into the sea.
To mingle in quarrels.
To meet for the discussion
Entrar en disputas.
Entrar en bureo.
a dress.
or the year begins.
To
The
mar.
to
I begin.
The book
Entrar una plaza.

El mal entra a brazadas, y sale a
pulgadas.
rio entra en
calls
Now
yo.
Tanto pano entra en un

El libro, 6 el ano entra.
El
To become cloudy.
The bell does not go
of a sub-
ject.
Do
entra
Lo que
el
beber, sale
el saber.
entra con el capillo, sale con
la mortaja.
Entrar en temor.
Entrar bien alguna cosa.
Entrarse por un libro.
Entrar por un lado.

Entrar con alguno.
Entrar de rond6n.
Entrar bien 6 mal en alguna cosa.
When
the wine
That which
is
is in,
the wit
is
out.
learned in infancy
is
never forgotten.
To begin to fear.
To come to the point.
To absorb one's self in a book.
To insinuate one's self adroitly.
To deal with a person.
To enter suddenly and familiarly.
To accept or refuse the proposal
another.
of
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Entrar dentro de
mismo.
Entrar en
si,
6 entrar en
si
To
87
reflect
upon one's own conduct,
in order to
la clase
de
los caballeros.
Entrar en arriendo de una finca de
To
To
improve it.
be counted a gentleman.
take charge of a farm.
campo.
Entrar y
To be
salir.
clever in business or conversa-
tion.
Entrar en una profesi6n.

Entrar a una persona a un sa!6n.
Entrar
No
la
comida.
entrar a alguno alguna cosa.
To devote one's self to

To show a person in.
To serve the dinner.
Not
to believe
repugnance
Entrar en recelo.
Entrar en una
partida, de
trigo,
a thing
for
a profession.
to have
it.
To begin to suspect.
To purchase a quantity of wheat, wool,
etc.
lana, etc.
To communicate by signs.
To reconcile disputants.
To prevail upon a person to do
Entrar a mates.
Entrar de por medio.
Entrar a uno.
as
we
To begin to sing in a concert.

To become very warm.
To arrive unexpectedly.
To be fortunate in the beginning
of
desire.
Entrar a cantar.
Entrar en calor.
Entrarse por las puertas.
Entrar con el pid derecho, 6 con
buen
an enterprise.
To attack, sword
pie".
Entrar con espada en mano.

Entrar en juicio con alguno.
Nunca me
To
entr6 de dientes a den-
in
hand.
audit a person's account.
never could endure him.
tro.
Entrar
como por su casa.

como Pedro por
Entrarse
su casa.
To fit loosely.
To be too familiar in another
person's
house.
To
Entrar con calzador.
find great difficulty in entering
place.
Pajaro viejo no entra en jaula.
Pajaro traguero, no
'entres
cheat an expert.
bird
shall enter my grathieving
It is difficult to
en mi
No
nary.
granero.
Entrar, 6 meterse en la danza.
To
La
Those who would succeed must work
letra
con sangre
entra.
get one's self into a quandary.
with a
mujer y a la mula, por

enso les entra la hermosura.
la
el pi-
will.
Comfort and kindness contribute

beauty.
to
SPANISH IDIOMS.
88
To grow old.
To come into play.
To defend one's self in court.
To hold a conference.
To be' one of a class or party
Entrar en edad.
Entrar en juego.
Entrar en voz.
Entrar en consejo.
Entrar en docena.
for
special purpose.
To
To
To
Entrar en suerte.
Entrar a
la parte.
Entrar a ojos cerrados.
take part in a
raffle.
have a share in a thing.

begin a thing blindly, without
reflection.
Entrar en campo con alguno
mantener campo.
Entrar por fuerza en alguna cosa.
Me entr santamente en la casa.
To
fight
a duel.
To
I
take possession forcibly.

entered the house without cere-
mony.
To
To
To
Entrar en la estacada.
Entrar en una comedia.

Entregarse en brazos de alguno.
enter into a dispute.
be an actor
in
a comedy.
trust one's self entirely, to an-
other.
Entregar
al
To
brazo secular una cosa.
put a thing in the hands of one
who
Hambre y
frio
entregan
al
hombre
a su enemigo.
Entregar alguna cosa
No
will destroy
one can
resist
it.
both hunger and
cold.
al silencio,
To
consign something to oblivion.
To
die.
al olvido.
Entregar 6 rendir el alma a Dios

exhalar el alma.
Enviar, 6 hacer ir al rollo.

Enviar d uno a los quintos infiernos.
Negocio erizado de dificultades.

Eire que erre.
Desde que te erre, nunca bien
te
To pack a person off.

To send a person away in anger.
An affair bristling with difficulties.
Pertinaciously ; obstinately.
Since I wronged you, I have never
liked you.
Al que yerra
perd6nale una vez,
mas no despues.
Errar
el tiro.
Errar
el
Pardon the
first fault, but punish

subsequent ones.
To miss the bull's eye (shooting) ;
to
Errar la vocaci6n.
To
To
El mas diestro
The
golpe.
fail
to attain one's desire.
miss one's aim.
devote one's self to some em-
ployment or
la yerra.
cleverest
calling.
person
makes a mistake.
sometimes
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Ave de
nunca
albarda, serial de tierra que
An
89
animal with a pack-saddle
is
sure sign of land (ironically applied to evident things)
yerra.
Errer
el
To
camino.
Gato escaldadd del agua

Escapar en una
fria
huye.
miss the right way.

scalded cat shuns cold water; a
burnt child dreads the fire.
To
tabla.
escape from a wreck on a board

narrow escape.
to have a
Escaparsele d uno algima cosa.

Escaparsele a uno una especie.
Not
to notice
To
say inadvertently what should
a thing.
not be said.
Si
de esta escapo y no muero, nunca

al cielo ; 6 si Dios de
mas bodas
esta
tal
me
escapa, nunca
me
but escape this time, I

always be careful in future.
If I
may
will
cubrira
capa.
Escaparse una palabra.
To
To
Escarbar
la conciencia.
To
Escarb6
el
Escapar
el caballo.
drive a horse very

let
fast.
an insulting word escape when
in anger.
be perplexed in one's sense of
right.
gallo,
y descubri6
cuchillo.
el
Inquisitive people
sometimes learn
unpleasant things.
take warning by another's mis-
Escarmentar en cabeza ajena.
To
Escoger como
To
To
To
fortunes.
entre peras.
Escribir en bronce.
Escribir en la arena
6 en polvo.
choose very carefully.

persevere tenaciously.
write in the sand ; to bury in
oblivion.
Escribir en la ceniza.
To
be weak; without firmness of
resolution.
Escrito de molde.
Written
in
characters
resembling
print.
con sangre.
Quien escucha, su mal oye.
Escribir
To
write with acrimony.
Listeners never
hear any good of
themselves.
Escupir en cerro, 6 en rueda.
To mix
No
Not
escupir alguna cosa.

Escupir en la cara a alguno.
To
in a conversation.
to disdain a thing.
deride or ridicule a person to his
face.
Escupir sangre.
To
boast of nobility.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
90
Escupir sangre en bacin de oro.
To
blood into a golden basin
spit
(to enjoy little happiness in the

midst of luxury).
To boast of one's riches.

To meddle or interfere in
Escupir doblones.
Escupir en corro.
conversa-
tion.
Escupir
al cielo.
Escupir
las estopas.
To
To
act rashly.
clear the seams of a snip from
oakum.
take French
To
To
To
Escurrir la bola.
Espantar
el sueno.
Espantar
la caza.
leave.
prevent sleeping.
startle
the
game
to injure
by
overhaste.
Poco dana espanta, y mucho amansa.
loss
little
frightens, a great
one
tames.
Al espantado
la
sombra
le
espanta.
The
victims of past accidents are
terrified
Espero
la calentura.
Le espero por
by shadows.
To expect a favor from some

I am afraid of the fever.
Esperar en alguno.
horas.
him every moment.

for meat from the wolf, or
I expect
Esperar del lobo carne.
To hope
Le espet6
He
one.
favors from the selfish.
De
gave strong reasons.

Great people can do great kind-
Quien espera, desespera.
He who
fuertes razones.
grandes senores, grandes mercedes se esperan.
nesses.
hopes, also fears
waiting
is
weary work.
Quien de mano ajena espera, mal

yanta y peor cena.
A bocado haron, espolada de vino.
;
Dios que esquilan
Esquilmar
la tierra.
He who
fares
trusts
but
too
much
to others
ill.
Stimulate digestion with wine.

Farewell in haste
!
To
impoverish the soil (said of cer-
tain crops).
Estacar
mano 6 a pata.
mano sobre mano.
Estar a
Estar
la zalea.
;
El negocio esta en buenas manos.

Estar bien emparentado.
Estar en percha.
Estar en berza.
To die.
To be quits.
To be idle.
The
affair is in
To
To
To
be in the
good hands.
be respectably connected.
have accomplished one's object.
grain).
blade
(applied
to
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To be utterly destitute of funds.

To be betrayed.
To be disgusted with uncongenial
Estar a la cuarta pregunta.
Estar vendido.
Estar
como
91
vendido.
company.
To be in the mood or in the vein.

To pay or receive visits of courtesy.
To bear up under the frowns of for-
Estar de vena.
Estar 6
Estar
al
ir
de complimiento.
yunque.
tune.
To
To
Estar de buen talante.
Estar
muy pagado de
si
mismo.
be ready and willing.

entertain a high opinion of one's
'self.
To keep silence in company.

To be in expectation of.
Estar en muda.
Estar de espera.
El asunto esta en vado.
The matter
is
settled.
Estar 6 venir de picadillo.
To argue.
To be in suspense.
To favor any one.
To comprehend what is said.
To pay attention to everything.
To be in its infancy.
To be satisfied with one's fate.
To be most brilliant.
To be struck dumb.
To be piqued, and desirous of show-
Estar con
To be
Estar a raz6n
6 a razones.
Estar en tabletas alguna cosa.

Estar por alguno.
Estar en lo que se dice.

Estar en todo.
Estar en cierne.
Estar en su centre.
Estar hecho un cielo.
Estar herido de mutismo.
ing
el
pelo de
la
dehesa.
El perezoso siempre esta meneste-
The
it.
a boor, a clown.
lazy are always in want.
roso.
To be
To be
To be
as bitter as gall.
Estar una cosa en jerga.

Estar en regla.
Ahl esta
There
lies
Estar hecho de hieles.
La
el
toque.
consulta esta arriba.
The
It is
Estar
To
To
To
To
To
To
Estar en grande altura.

Estar en candelero.
Estar de arrim6n.
Estar a la mira.
Estar con
las espuelas,
espuelas calzadas.
6 tener
las
in order.
the difficulty.
is laid before the
king.
business
decreed by high authority.

be near promotion.
be raised to a great dignity.
Estd decretado de arriba.

al saltadero.
planned, but not finished.
be high
in office.
keep watch.
be on the lookout, on the watch.
be booted and spurred ; ready.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
92
Estar sobre
las
armas.
Estar de ordenanza, 6 de guardia.

Estar a juzgado y sentenciado.
To
To
To
be under arms.
be on duty ; to be in waiting.
be obliged to hear and submit. to
the sentence pronounced
Estar 6 estarse d la capa.

Estar 6 andar sobre aviso.
Estar desprevenido.
Estar con la soga a la garganta.
Estar en tal cuerda.
Estoy en que
Ya
To keep a sharp lookout.

To be off one's guard.
To be in imminent danger.
To be of that opinion.
I am of opinion that
.
estaba yo en eso.
Me
estoy en mis trece, 6 en la mia.

Estar erre que erre.
Estar con alguno.
was already of that mind.
I retain my opinion.
To hold an opinion with tenacity.
To be of the same opinion with
another.
Esta
muy pagado de
si
mismo.
He
entertains
high opinion of
himself.
Estar en caja.
Estar bien 6 mal conceptuado con
To
To
estoy para dar migas a un
am
a
gato.
esta ausente todos los males
Quien
stand well or
any one
alguno.
Yo no
have one's balance.
ill
in the opinion of
to agree or not to agree.
not worthy to throw crumbs to
cat.
The absent
suffer
and
fear every
ill.
tiene y teme.
To be
Estar con cuidado.
Cuando
ni
el villano esta
conoce a
Donde no
en
dios, ni al
el
mulo,
mundo.
esta el dueno, ahi esta su
turns the
head
of a foolish person.
When the cat's away, the mice will
duelo.
En
anxious.
Sudden good fortune
play.
Estar a pique de perderse.

Estar apestado de alguna cosa.
Delays are dangerous.

To be within an ace of being lost.
To be satiated with anything; to
Estar fuera.
Not
Asi
la
tardanza esta
me
el peligro.
have a superabundance of a thing.

to be at home.
It
estoy.
is all
the
same
to
me.
Estar a la devoci6n de alguno.

Estar a los pies de los caballos.
To be at one's disposal.
To be in complete humiliation (under
Estar en un
To be on
tris
the horses' feet).

the verge of
.,
on the
point of ...
Estar 6
salir
a todo.
To
answer
for the
consequences.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Estar de bote en bote.
Estar hecho un zorro.

Estar a buen pesebre.
Estar en
el tablero.
Estar picado del alacran.

Estar de media anqueta.
Estar en la enfermeria.
Estar a cordel.
Estoy en ayunas.
Estar en berlina.
Estar de por medio.
Con que no
estd
en
To be full of people, crowded.

To be drowsy, or heavy with sleep.
To dine at a well-served table.
To be exposed to public view.
To be smitten with love.
To be incommodiously seated.
To be in the repair shop.
To be in the right line.
I am still fasting.
To be the object of censure or gossip.
To interpose to mediate.
To be on good terms with one.
Something strange and uncommon
;
Estar bien con alguno.

;
la cartilla
is
(that
Estar sobre
93
To
si.
be
not upon the card
proud,
tranquil,
!).
on
one's
guard.
Estar en
si.
Estar alcanzado.
Estar 6 no estar en
el caso.
To have complete consciousness.

To be in debt.
To comprehend or not to comprehend a
Estar de buen talante.
Estar cocido en alguna cosa.

Estar
al
cabo de algun negocio.
an
Estar 6 quedar impuesto de alguna
thing.
To be ready or willing to do a thing.

To understand an affair well.
To be thoroughly acquainted with
affair.
To be
thoroughly posted in some
business.
cosa.
To
Estar en los bolos.
be dexterous in conducting an
affair.
Estar 6 poner en solfa.
To
arrange things with art or judg-
ment.
Estar sobre un negocio.
Estar en barras.
To
To
have a matter well in hand.
be on the point of
settling
an
affair.
Estar en panales.
Estar en los apices.
To
To
Estar colgado de los cabellos.
To be
little knowledge of anything.

have a complete knowledge of a
have
thing.
anxious concerning a
affair.
Estar en alguna cosa.

Estar a sus anchuras.
Estar de hocico.
To push an affair.
To be at one's ease.
To be at variance.
critical
SPANISH IDIOMS..
94
Estar de inteligencia.
Estar metido en caponera.
Estar de pi ; 6 en pi
6-levantado.
6 derecho
Estar con los huesos de punta.

Estar en pino.
Estar de priesa.
Eso esti bien 6 mal visto.
Estar bien aviado.
Estar por ver, 6 por venir.
To
To
To
be in accord.
To
To
To
stand up.
stand erect.
be locked up
in jail.
stand.
be in a hurry.
That
is
proper, or improper.
stocked.
To be well
To be yet
to
come
to pass
to
be
doubtful.
Estar de ver.
Estar a la vista.
To be worth seeing.
To take care of to be on the lookout.
To be ready for service or travel.
To be resolved or disposed to do
;
Estar con las botas puestas.

Estar en hacer alguna cosa.
anything.
Estar a la puerta.
Estar por puertas.
Estar 6 andar hecho un azacan.
No
esti desnudo.
Estar en
vilo.
Estar 6 quedar en descubierto.

Estar demas.
Estar en habla.
Estar a la estaca.
Estar uno mal guisado.

Estemos d cuentas.
Estar 4 todo.
Estar
como una
balsa de aceite.
To be about to happen.
To be reduced to beggary.
To be very busy.
He
wants for nothing.
To
To
To
To
To
To
be in great suspense.
be a defaulter.
be one too many.
talk about an affair.
live
very poorly.
be disgusted, discontented.
Let us consider
To
To
this.
be ready for whatever may come.

be as quiet as a pool of oil (said
of a crowd).
Estar con
el
agua a
la boca.
Estar alguna cosa por hacer;

Esta fuera de mi esfera.
Estar por hacer alguna cosa;
Estar en mantillas.
To
To
find one's self in a scrape.
remain to be done.
That
is
To be
To be
Esta comiendo su renta bobamente.
He
Estar curtido.
To be
No
quisiera estar en su pellejo.
Estar
al
embocadero.
out of
my
inclined to
reach, or power.
do a
thing.
in a state of infancy.
spends his income
foolishly.
accustomed, inured.
I should not like to stand in his
shoes (in his skin).
be on the point of attaining any-
To
thing.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Estar en autos, 6 en los autos.
iEsta V.?
Todavia no estan de vuelta.
aqui, 6
To know what is going on.

Do you know? do you understand?
They have not
yet returned.
court the rising power.
To
Estar al sol que nace.
Êstamos
95
en Flandes, 6 en
Francia ?
Pray remember where you are (reproach for an untimely or im!
proper remark).
salvo esta el
He
que repica.
in safety
is
who
rings the tocsin.
Estar a prueba de bomba.

Estar en cantaro.
To be settled permanently in a place.

To be about to be.
To serve for nothing.
To be bomb-proof.
To be nominated for an office.
Estar hecho la fabula del mundo.
He
Estar de plant6n.
Estar al caer.
Estar de n6n.
has
become
the laughing-stock
of the world.
Sus estados estan desempenados.

Estar empefiado hasta los ojos.
Estar ahogado.
His estates are
free
from debt.
To be deeply in debt.
To be overwhelmed with
business or
trouble.
Estar en arabigo.
Estar debajo de
la
palamenta.
To
To
be incomprehensible.
at the beck and call of any
be
one.
No
estar
en
el
mapa.
El esta desenganado de eso.

Estar a patio.
To be
out of the
He
is
aware of
To
live at one's
common
way.
that.
own expense
(said
of students in college).
Estar escriturado.
El caudal de fulano esta en alcabala
To be under articles.
He lives on what he earns.
de viento.
Estar a diente
como haca de
bolero.
To be
very hungry indeed.

have eaten anything.
Estar a diente.
Not
Estar pelado, 6 ser pelado.

Estar a la sopa boba de alguno.
To be penniless, insignificant.
To live gratis in another's house.
When the iron is hot, then is the
Cuando
el hierro esta encendido,

entonces ha de ser batido.
Estar dos a partir un pinon.

Estar 6 andar sobre los estribos.
Estar en
el
banco de
la paciencia.
to
time to
strike.
To be very intimate friends.

To act prudently and cautiously.
To be enduring some trouble.
was written
Asi estaba escrito.
It
Estar 6 venir hecho un pato de agua.
To
roll off like
back.
it
was
to
be
so.
water from a duck's
SPANISH IDIOMS.
96
He
Estd del mismo palo.

Estar como santo en visperas.
of the same sort (as another)
is
To hear without understanding.

To be safe and secure.
Estar en percha.
Estar la mar en leche.
The sea is calm and smooth.

Not to have attained a state of ma-
Estar alguna cosa en leche.
turity.
To lack experience.
To have a large family
To be very busy.
Estar con la leche en los labios.

Estar cargado de obligaciones.
Estar rodeado de negocios.
Pedro esta por corregidor.

Juan esta entrado en dias.
Bueno, bueno esta
bueno.
Peter
John
6 bueno esta lo
is
to support.
mayor.
getting old.
is
Enough
no more.
Estar un aposento echando bombas.

Estar en el Cristus.
The room
To
art or science.
Esta de Dios.
It
is
Estar fuera de Dios.
To be
Al que no esta acostumbrado a bra-
Unaccustomed
costuras le hacen llagas.

El infierno esta lleno de buenas pala-
Hell
gas, las
is
very hot.
be a tyro in an
is from God ; it
inevitable.
utterly foolish.
things are difficult of
management.
is paved with good
intentions.
bras.
Aquel
Estar
es rico
que esta bien con Dios.

en algun negocio.
muy metido
Estar las uvas verdes.

Estar tocada alguna cosa.
Esta una cosa tan en los ojos.
Estar embargado para palacio..
is
have begun to decay.

be continually before one's eyes.
excuse one's self by pretending
urgent business.
near a person.
la obra.
money
La mitad
del e"xito estd en quererlo.

Las frutas estan tomando color.
Los campos estan buenos.

Los campos estan perdidos.
Cuando la sierra esta dorada en
mano
viene
el
la
agua.
Estar una cosa en el estado de la
inocencia.
Por
la
puente, que
the only true wealth.
be deeply engaged in an affair.

be sour grapes, unattainable.
To be always
Work is dry
Estar a la oreja.
Seca esta
Virtue
To
To
To
To
To
esta seco.
after
Well begun
is
(a request for drink-
work done).
half done.
The fruit is growing ripe.

The crops are good.
The crops are ruined.
When
gather on the
the
rain
soon falls.
mountains,
An affair or business which has made
the
clouds
no progress from
Look to your ways,
best.
the beginning.
.and choose the
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
en
los
anos estan todos los en-
esta
en
The house
la cartilla.
Estan cosas en este
mundo como
cuernos en un costal,
punta.
Estar hecho una
not yet finished.

;
6 ponerse a
To be tipsy.
To be as happy
Estar hecho un cuero, 6 una uva.

pie,
is
horns in a bag,
treinta.
El que esta en
crafty as well as
Something irregular out of the way.

There are things in this world like
todas de
lia.
Estar a treinta con rey
The young may be

the old.
ganos.
La casa esta por acabar.
Cosa que no
97
mire no caiga.
all
as a lord
cerca esta la camisa a la carne
que el jub6n.
Estar a cuento.
(elated
with wine).
To be very drunk.
Let him
who
thinketh he standeth,
take heed lest he
Mas
awry.
fall.
Blood
is
To be
useful for a purpose, appro-
thicker than water.
priate.
Estar 6 venir a cuento una cosa.
Estar con
No
el pi
estar 6
en
To come
to the point
able to the occasion.
To be
el aire.
no venir en estado un
The
to
be
suit-
unsettled.
lawsuit
is
postponed.
pleito.
quien esta en su tienda, no le

la con-
achaean que se hal!6 en

tienda.
Crimes are not ascribed to those

who have regular occupations, but
to vagrants.
Estar asomado a buena ventana.
To
No
Rivalry
estan
bien dos pobres a una
be near attaining family estates

or dignities.
makes
trouble.
puerta.
Not
Estar ajeno de una cosa.

Estar ajeno de si.
to
have heard a rumor.
To be unselfish
To be on sale.
To be on sale
stands much
Estar de saca.
Estar de venta, 6 en venta.
without self-love.
(said
at
of one
who
a window to see
and be seen).
Ella esta siempre colgada de la ven-
She
is
always at the window.
tana.
Estar en
el tablero.
Triste esta la casa
donde
canta, y el gallo calla.
la gallina
To be exposed to public view.

That is but a sorry house where the
wife governs and the husband
submits.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
98
Esta noticia esta chorreando sangre.

Estar con el pie" en el estribo ; 6
tener
el pi
en
el estribo.
Estar transportado con alguna per-
This news
is quite fresh.
the point of starting on a
journey (to have one's foot already
in the stirrup).
To be on
To
be wrapt up in a person.
sona.
Ya estamos en
El lobo esta en
We are about it we
A traitor is among
ello.
la conseja.
understand
us
it.
(a wolf in
sheep's clothing).
To be in suspense.
To have great authority or
To be in a remote and
Estar en tabletas.
Estar en grande altura.
Estar en los quintos infiernos.
fortune.
secluded
place.
El esta bien 6 mal
He
visto.
Estar, 6 quedarse
de asiento.
Estar de sobra.
Estar en edad.
Quien de alacran esta picada, la

sombra le espanta.
Estar muy metido en algun negocio.
j
otra puerta
que
esta
no
is
or
is
not respected.
To be within cannon-shot.
To settle in a place.
To be one too many.
To be under seven years old
Estar a tiro de canon.
se abre
of horses).
The burnt child fears the
To be
Be
(said
fire.
deeply engaged in an affair.

another door this one will
off to
not open to you.

To be broken in pieces.
Estar hecho pedazos.

Esta agua esta pelando.
Estar sobre una plaza.
This water
is
boiling.
Estar una cosa en un hilo.
To be
To be
To be
Estar para dar un estallido.
of business).
To be about to cause a great sensa-
Estar hecho una criba.
besieging a city.
riddled.
in a critical condition
(said
tion.
Estar
como una
espina;
estar
To be
extremely thin.
hecho un cart6n.
Estar
como
To be
as thin as a thread-paper (as

a card)
To be a mere skeleton.
el naipe.
Estar en los huesos.
Estar hecho un costal de huesos.

Estar en ascuas.
Estar uno en espinas
sobre espinas.
6 encontrarse
To be a mere bag of
To be upon thorns.
To be upon thorns.
bones.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
No
estar
muy
Not
cat6lico.
amagado de
fiebre.
Estar hecho una pavesa.

Estar en galeras.
Estar de grito ; 6 en un grito.
Estar con la boca a la pared.
Estar hecho un polio de agua.
Estar tieso como un besugo.
Estar hecho unas brasas.
Estar en brasas.
Estar colgado de un hilo.
Estar de cuidado.
Estar
como en un
good
health.
To be careless of one's own health.

To be old and infirm.
To be indisposed.
To begin to feel symptoms of fever.
To be very much debilitated.
To be in distress or sorrow.
To be in continual pain.
To be in extreme necessity.
To perspire very freely.
To be very cold.
To be flushed with heat.
To be uneasy.
To be in great danger.
To be dangerously ill.
To be in a state of extreme suffering.
To be speechless.
To be bereft of feeling and con-
uno bien con sus huesos.

Estar hecho un cascajo.
Estar de mala gana.
estar
Estar
to be in
99
potro.
Estar sin habla.

Estar hecho un tronco.
sciousness.
Estar, andar 6 verse entre la cruz
To
be in imminent danger (between
agua bendita.
Estar con el credo en la boca.
the cross and holy water)

To be in great danger of death.
Estar d dos dedos de la eternidad.
To be on the
To be dying.
To be dying
el
Estar con la candela en la mano.

Estar en
el
candi!6n, en los hospi-
be with the lamp
(to
1
in the hospital ).
tales.
Estar con un
brink of eternity.
pie"
en
la sepultura.
Estar hecho un hospital.
To have one foot

He is very sickly
in the grave.
or,
there are
many
invalids in the house.
To
Estar en capilla.
prepare for death (said of crim-
inals).
Estar fuera de su juicio

acuerdo.
6 de su
To
be insane.
Estar en su juicio ; 6 en su acuerdo.

Estar A lo ultimo, 6 A los ultimos.
To be sane.
To be expiring
Estar mascando tierra 6 barro.
To be dead and
El pulso estd en su caja.

Estar de buen ano.
His pulse is even and natural.

To be stout and well fed.
to understand
pletely.
In the Spanish hospitals a large lamp
is
buried.
put near the bed of a dying person.
com-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
100
Estar
como
el
pez con
el
To
agua.
live
comfortably (like a
fish in
the water).
Estar
como un
To be
reloj.
in perfectly
good health
(reg-
ular as the clock) .
To be in good health.
To be in good health
Estar 6 quedar sin novedad.

Estar boyante.
or circum-
stances.
Estar hecho un
parecer un
abril,
To look well, handsome, and healthy.
abril.
To be
To be
Estar de casa.
Estar, andar, 6
salir
de
trapillo.
in dishabille.
in dishabille
to be negligent
in dress.
Estar a las once.
To be
Estar cosida alguna cosa con hilo

bianco.
Not
Estar bien 6 mal una cosa a alguno.
This thing does or does not become

him.
Estar en quinolas.
Estar con el pelo de la dehesa.
To wear clothes of glaring colors.

To be unkempt, unpolished, clown-
Estar hecho un andrajo.
To be
awry (applied to clothes).

match (to have sewed some-
to
thing dark with a white thread).
ish.
dressed like a ragman
(i.e.,
in rags).
He
Esta hecho un arambel.

Estar 6
ir
Estar 6
ir
hecho un brinquino.
siempre en bandeja.
Estar en boga alguna cosa.

Estar aparador.
Le
esta
como a la burra los
arracade?.
Estar bien una cosa a alguno.

Estar de respeto.
Estar bien 6 mal templada
la
gui-
is
dressed like a scarecrow.
To be very well dressed.

To be always well dressed.
To be in fashion, in general use.
To be dressed in style.
To be very becoming.
To suit.
To be in full evening dress.
To be in good or bad humor.
tarra.
To be
Estar una cosa puesta a la guitarra.
artistically
or
fashionably
posed.
No
estar
con sus
No
No
estar alguno
estar el
en su
caja.
pasteles,
to
To be
To be
alfileres.
horno para
para roscas.
Estar 6 ponerse
Not
alfileres.
Estar con todos sus
He
is
be
in
in a
muy
ancho.
bad humor.
not in a favorable
speak of
Estar de punta con otro.
good humor.
as well dressed as possible.
mood
this.
To become proud or haughty.

To be on bad terms with another.
to
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Estar
ponerse
de
cuernos
alguno.
Estar uno mal guisado.
No estar gracia en casa
con
6 no estar
de gracia 6 para gracia.

Estar con tanta jeta.
101
To be on bad
To be
To be
terms with a person.
disgusted, discontented.
an
in
humor.
ill
To
pout
to put
on an ill-humored
expression.
Estar de esquina.
To be
To be
Pedro y Juan estan en guerra abierta.

Estar hecho un ascua ; 6 echar as-
To be
Estar sentido.
miffed, vexed, annoyed.

at variance.
Peter and John are at loggerheads.

flushed with anger.
cuas.
He
El esta que brinca.

Estar tocado de mal de rabia.
Estar hecho un fuego.
Estar cenudo.
estar
a great passion.
in
Estar a merced.
No
is
To be overcome by passion.
To be in a rage.
To look black grim.
To live at another's expense.
Not
hoy para merc^des.
to
be
an obliging temper.
in
Estar en sus glorias.
To be very resolute.
I am not in a laughing mood.
To agree entirely with a person.
To be on good terms with a person.
To be happy.
To be doing something with great
Estar hecho de
To
Estar
muy jaque.
No
estoy para jacaras.

Estar de acuerdo con uno.
Estar bien con alguno.

Estar en la gloria.
pleasure
sal.
Estar para reventar de risa

la risa
en
el
o retozar
full
to
be perfectly
satisfied.
of grace or elegance
Esa palabra estd gozando de Dios

Estar de chunga.
Estar de fiesta.
estar para fiestas.
Heaven
To be
To be
to
Not
smiles on that speech
Estar de gaita.
Estar de bulla.
como unas
castanuelas.
Estar de garita.
Estar como una pascua.
merry, in good humor.
merry.
be willing to call the cat

pussy to be out of humor.
to
Estar de buen gesto.

Estar de chirinola.
Estar
be gay, facetious.
To be very near laughing.
cuerpo.
No
be
To be
To be
To be
To be
To be
To be
To be
in
in
good humor.
good spirits.
merry, in high
gay and
spirits.
joyful.
very gay.
very merry.
as
merry
as
a cricket.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
102
To be mad
Estar loco de contento.

<jEstas en
6 en tus
camisa?
tu
Are you
in
with joy.
your senses?
cinco sentidos?
.
you
To be
Estar en, 6 tomar ejercicio.

Tras la cruz estd el diablo.
Detras de
la
mad? do you know what
Are you
lelo?
cruz est
la cruz al cuello,
el
el
diablo
diablo en el
The
The
are saying?
in spiritual retreat.
devil hides behind the cross.
devil lurks behind the
cross
on one's neck, and
or, the cross
the devil in one's body.
cuerpo.
Estar en Babia.
To be
absent-minded, heedless,
in-
attentive.
To be very watchful.
To be on the watch
Estar en un pi como grulla.

Estar 6 estarse a la capa.
for
an oppor-
tunity.
Estar
mas muerto que
Estoy en
vivo.
vilo.
To be in a great fright.
I am in great anxiety.
To be perplexed, at a loss how to act.
Estar entre dos aguas.

Ya est duro el alcacer para zam-
That
ponas.
Estar como
To be an
el
alma de Garibay.
never do.
will
irresolute,
undecided per-
son.
Estar a dos dedos de hacer, 6 decir
To be
una cosa.
El can6n esta apuntado muy
The gun
almost decided to say or do
something.
bajo.
is
depressed (mil.).
Estar de salida, 6 de levante.

Estar con el mismo velamen.
To be ready for sailing (nau.).

To be under the same sails, or same
Estar d la trinca.
To
El bajel esta sobre
el
cabo de San
Vincente.
La mar
Estar
el
estd
muy crecida.
buque muy boyante.
canvas (nau.).
have a sharp lookout (nau.).
The vessel is off Cape St. Vincent
(nau.).
sea runs very high (nau.).
The
The
ship draws
little
water (nau.).
Estar debajo del agua.
To be
Estar en ancoras, 6 sobre las ancoras.

Estar en el tragadero del mar.
To lie at anchor (nau.).

To be in the trough of the
El ancla esta zarpada.

Estimar sobre los ojos.
The anchor
loaded to the water's edge
(nau.).
Estirar la pierna.
Estirar las piernas.
is
sea (nau.) .
atrip (nau.).
To esteem highly.
To die.
To take a walk to
;
stretch one's legs.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
103
To stand up.
To make a great
Estirar las cuerdas.

Estirar la barra.
effort to attain a
thing.
Do
El onceno no estorbar.
not hinder industrious persons iu
their business.
Cada uno estornuda como Dios
le
con uno.
Estrujar el dinero.
diligencia.
evita la ocasi6n evita el pe-
Quien
testigos.
Excederse a
No
mismo.
si
excederse en un atomo.
moco de
Excoger algo i
Extender
la
him
helps
la pierna hasta
The
best
armor
absence
is
from
danger.
To take the testimony of a witness.
To surpass one's own actions.
ligro.
Examinar
God
To become discouraged.
To poach eggs.
To fall out with a person.
To be avaricious, covetous.
To finish an affair.
ammo.
Estrellar huevos.
Evacuar una
as
to do.
ayuda.
Estrecharse de
Estrellarse
Each one sneezes
candil.
donde
llega
To keep closely to one's orders.

To choose carefully.
To cut one's coat according to one's
sabana.
cloth (to stretch one's legs as far

as the sheet reaches)
.
fuerza de la adulaci6n, a cuanto
te extiendes
tabla.
Facer muestra.
sin tiesta d alguno.
Facer mal barato.

Al
fraile
que
faltar
si,
ni
off.
To make a false key.

To bribe the guards, or
Falsear las guardas, 6 centinelas.

Sin faltar chicota.
No
thy sway
Return good deeds in kind.
te faz, fazle.
Falsear una Have.
Sin faltar un
is
To banish a person.
To do justice.
To give a banquet.
To feign, or pretend.
To cut a person's head
To do wrong.
Extranar de los reinos a uno.
Facer
how potent
Facer derecho.
Facer 6 hacer
O, flattery,
It
sentinels
is all
complete.
Without an iota wanting.
un no.
Not
en un cabello.
to
be wanting
in the slightest
particular.
Herradura que chapalea clavo
le
Nunca
falta
un roto para un desco-
without
fire
(a rattling
le falta
Even the most unfortunate may
find
a friend.
sido.
No
No smoke
horseshoe needs a nail).
falta.
sino sarna
que
rascar.
He
has everything his heart
desire.
can
SPANISH IDIOMS,
104
Faltara
la
madre
al
hijo
y no
la
niebla al granizo.
Faltar a la palabra.
Fogs are sure to come
after hail (the

laws of nature are unchanging)
To break one's word, one's promise.
.
Words cannot
Faltan palabras.
Faltar a la verdad.
tell.
Ferir el mal viento en alguno.

Fiar el pecho.
To lie.
To become suspicious, or afraid.
To trust one's secrets to another.
No
le fiara
un saco de alacranes.
would not
as a
Quien
6 promete, en deuda se
fia,
mete.
He who makes
To
persist in
Here
finca el punto.
Fingir negocios.
Finarse 6 desperecerse de
Ni
him with
so
much
a promise thereby
contracts a debt.
Fijar las plantas.
Aqui
trust
bag of scorpions.
risa.
firmes carta que no leas, ni bebas
agua que no veas.
To
To
an opinion.
the difficulty.
affect the man of business.
lies
laugh excessively.
Never sign a paper which you have

not read, nor drink water which
you have not examined.
Gloria vana, florece y no gfana.

Formar cuentas alegres, 6 galanas,
Earthly glories are transient.

To build castles in the air.
6 calendarios.
Lightening a ship by throwing the
cargo overboard (nau.).
Alijo forzado.
Franquear
la casa.
To
give a person the freedom of the

house.
Freirse de calor.
To
To
To
Al
The proof
Franquear una
carta.
Freirsela a alguno.
freir, lo vereis.
put a stamp on a letter.

deceive with premeditation.
be excessively hot.
of the pudding
is
in the
pass judgment.
build argument or hope
upon
eating.
Fulminar
la sentencia.
Fundar en
el aire.
To
To
insufficient grounds.
Fundar 6 tener fundada intenci6n

contra alguno.
Ganar
Ganar
calzas.
la
voluntad de alguno.
Ganar amigos y dinero.
To
have an undoubted right to do a
thing.
To
To
gain glory or profit.
To
acquire fortune and glory at the
gain a person's good will and

confidence.
same
Ganar
el
juego.
To
time.
defeat another
SPANISH IDIOMS.
105
Ganar 6 perder capitulo.

Ganar enemigos.
Ganar las albricias.
To carry or lose one's point.

To make enemies.
To be the first in bringing good
Ganar
To
news to an interested person.

el jubile6.
gain the indulgence of the jubior fiftieth year, among the
lee,
Jews.
Ganar
To
el viento.
of the
game
Those who do not share their

ures do not make friends.
pleas-
the
to
get
lee
(hunting).
Bocado comido, no gana amigo.

Ganar
la
To
boca a uno.
induce a person to change his
opinion.
Con
paciencia se gana
el cielo.
Ganar las riendas.

Ganar a dedos.
No se gan6 Zamora en una hora.
Ganar el cielo con rosario ajeno.
With patience, heaven
may be
itself
gained (warning against haste).

To stop a rider by seizing the reins.
To gain by inches.
Rome was not built in a day.
To gain heaven by the use of another
person's rosary (to rob Peter to
pay Paul)
Ganar de barlovento.
Gastar
el
calor
natural
en alguna
than
cosa.
De mala
masa, un bollo basta.
To get to windward.
To pay more attention
Of
a thing
to
deserves.
it
a poor
article,
take as
little
as
possible.
la p61vora en salvas.
Gastar palabras.
Gastar alegremente la hacienda 6
Gastar
To work to no purpose.
To waste words.
To squander one's fortune
in
amuse-
ments.
caudales.
To
Gastar sin consuelo.
outrun the constable
to
spend
thoughtlessly.
To do
Gloriarse en Dios.
something
for the
glory of
God.
Gobierna
tu
boca segun tu
bolsa.
Regulate
purse
your
or, cut
by your
your coat accord-
appetite
ing to your cloth.
Gobernar
el
tim6n.
Gozar de Dios.
Grabar en hueco, en bianco, 6
Grabar al agua fuerte.
relieve.
To steer the ship (nau.).

To be dead and blessed.
To emboss to model in
To etch.
;
relief.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
106
Seca
la
garganta, ni grune ni canta.
Miel en
boca, y guarde la bolsa.
la
The dry
throat can neither groan nor
sing (said by drunkards).

If you cannot give, refuse courteously.
Asi Dios te guarde, asi Dios te de

la gloria
May God
help you as you help
me
Guardate de hombre mal barbado, y

de viento acanalado.
Beware of a beardless man, or a
Guardar
To conceal one's self.

He who keeps his own
much trouble.
Quien
la cara.
guarda su
mucho
puridad
escusa
mal.
El ano seco
tras el mojado, guarda

vende
el hilado.
y
"
Guardete Dios de " hecho es
la lana
draught of wind.
secret avoids
After a wet year, sell your wool ;

after a dry one, spin at home.
God keeps you from " it is too
late"!
Guardar
el
To
sueno.
take care that one
is
not dis-
Guardate del diablo.
turbed in sleep.
Beware of risk, or punishment.
Guardarsela a alguno.
To
delay vengeance
till
better
opportunity.
Guardar batidores, 6 guardar
bati-
To
anticipate
To
protect
and avoid
difficulties.
deros.
Guardar
las espaldas.
one's
to
self;
avoid
giving offence.
Mi padre
las
My
guardara.
father will attend to
reproach those
who
(used to
it
leave to others
what they should do themselves)
Guardar
la casa,
Guardar
la
Quien
6 la cama.
boca.
se guarda,
Quien guarda,
Dios
le
guarda.
Guardarle a alguno
el aire.
'
Guardar
la ropa.
Guiar
la
danza.
Guiar
el
agua a su molino.
Si el ciego guia al ciego,
a peligro de caer en
confined to the house, or to

the bed.
To eat with moderation.

God helps him who helps
He who
halla.
el
ambos van
hoyo.
To be
himself.
saves, finds.
To humor a person.
To ward off bodily harm.
To involve another in difficulties.
To bring grist to one's mill.
If the blind
lead
the
blind,
both
shall fall into the ditch.
Gustar salud.
To
Fulano gusta mucha porra.

Gustar a otro la paciencia.
To
enjoy good health.

Such an one is very haughty.
try
another person's patience.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
me
Dios
con
haya bien
esto,
As God
aquello.
j
tion)
Mai haya V. que no me
lo
ha dicho
107
wills
(expressing
resigna-
God forgive you for not having told

me
When it thunders, the thief becomes
!
Miedo ha Payo que
reza.
honest.
;
Mai haya quien mal piense
Hay mucho
i
This
diablo aqui.
haya el diablo
Mal
Bad
No
hay mas Dios, ni mas Santa

Maria para Pedro que el fuego.
Sin dinero no hay response, 6 no
hay d6n sin s6n.

Que mal haya
No
hayan
hay memoria que
acabe, ni
luck to the devil
tiempo no
dolor que la muerte no
el
perplexed.
all
other
things.
No
money, no paternoster.
he repent
it
do not care let it go

Time and death cure all
I
evil thinks
affair is bedevilled,
Peter loves gambling above
May
alia se lo
him who
Evil to
things.
consuma.
No
No
No
hay mal que por bien no venga.

haber 6 no tener apelaci6n.
hay mal que dure cien afios, ni
There
is
no
There
is little
There
There
is
de
la en-
hay mas bronce que anos once,
ni
not be
is
hope.
a remedy for everything.
no bed too hard for a tired
man.
jalma.
No
may
pain lasts a century, and none

could endure such.
Tambien hay bulas para

No hay tal cama como
la
that
No
cuerpo que los aguante.

Aun hay sol en bardas.
difuntos.
evil
turned to good.
To be despaired of.
Young people are
strong and healthy.
mas lana que no saber que hay
manana.
Para
el
amor y muerte no hay cosa
Against love or death nothing avails.
fuerte.
Haber buen
Un
siglo
Hay mucho que
No
To
siglo.
ha que no
le
veo a V.
henir.
hay que hacer, 6 no tiene que
rest in peace.
have not seen you for an age.
There is much to do.

You have but to do it.
hacer.
No
hay atajo
miel sin
Como
sin trabajo
hay vinas.
los manos.
Haber a
6 no hay
No
gains without pains.
hiel.
As sure
as fate.
To
what one seeks.
find
SPANISH IDIOMS.
108
No
No
hay rosa
sin espinas.
hay placer
sin
hiel,
6 no hay
gusto sin susto.
What
Que hay ?
No
No
hay para que\

hay de qu.
No
No
No
No
hay cosa con cosa.

tal
is
no such thing
Impossible
6 tales carne-
There
is
in disorder.
is
Everything
There
cosa.
6 no hay
the matter?
tales borregos,
hay
is
There is no reason for it.

Don't mention it
you are welcome.
hay
ha lugar.
ros
There is no rose without a thorn.

There is no pleasure without alloy,
no rose without a thorn.
it is
cannot do
no such
thing.
tal.
Hubo un tiempo.
No ha mucho.
Once upon a time.

Not long since.
Poco ha que.
Afios ha esto.
That was a long time ago.
Rato ha
false.
it.
Lately
a short time since.
Some
6 ya ha rato.
Hace rato se ha ido.

Haber por gato a rato.
To
time ago.
has been gone a long while.
consider valid.
Hemos
We
set out with fine weather.
Hay
Hay buen
It looks as if
He
sacado buen tiempo.

aparatos de Hover.
The walking
6 mal piso.
it
would
rain.
Este ano hay mucho pan.

En la labranza hay altos y bajos.
good, or bad.
This year there is plenty of wheat.
Farming has its advantages and dis-
No
There
Two
is
advantages.
haber para untar un diente.

dos pardales en una espiga, nunca
hay
is
nothing
can
eat.
sparrows on one ear of corn
never agree.
liga.
Quien no se aventura, no ha ventura.

A hambre no hay pan bazo a la
;

hungry man does not find
hambre no hay mal pan a buena

hambre no hay pan duro, ni falta
salsa a ninguno
a gran hambre
no hay pan malo, ni duro, ni
fault
with his food.
bazo.
Aca, que hay
Come
olla.
here
you
will find
something
pleasant.
No
hay buena
olla
con agua
sola.
nourishing dish cannot be made

with water alone (i.e., proper
means must be taken

a desired result).
to
produce
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
hay
olla sin tocino.
109
is
Nothing
perfect
when an
essential
(Also a reproach
is
part
lacking.
to those who harp continually
on
one subject.)
Donde no hay
estacas,
no hay
toci-
Be prepared
nos.
No
there
siempre hay tocinos donde hay
is
for good fortune (where

no hook, there is no
bacon).
Every hook has not
its flitch.
estacas.
No
En
haber para un bocado.

tiempo de higos, no hay amigos.
There
scarcely any food.
is
In the season of
no one remem-
figs
bers his friends.
Prosperity
is sel-
fish.
No
hay peor cuna que
la del
mismo
There
Habiendo pregonado
venden
vino,
vinagre.
Jurado ha
el
bano de negro no hacer
After having
cried
wine, they
sell
vinegar.
Natural characteristics are unchange-
bianco.
No
no worse enemy than an
is
alienated friend.
palo.
able.
hay numen
sin
demencia.
Genius
is
Sin perseverancia no hay victoria.
Without
He
closely allied to madness.
contest
there
no
is
vic-
tory.
estado a punto de morir en esta

contienda.
Casa donde no hay harina, todo se

vuelve tremolina.
came near being
killed in that col-
lision.
When
poverty comes in at the door,

flies out at the window.
love
tus
perro viejo no hay tus
Entre ruin ganado poco hay que
An
excoger.
En casa del ahorcado no hay que
worthless things.
Do not talk of a rope in the house
mentar la soga.
Derecho apurado, tuerto ha tornado.
No haber 6 no quedar lanza enhiesta.
old bird
There
is
is
not caught with chaff.
little
man who was
of a
between
to choose
hanged.
No
Justice must be tempered with mercy.

To rout an enemy completely (mil.).
Never to have been in battle (mil.).
The absent must
haber visto la cara al enemigo.

muertos y d idos no hay amigos.
always
bear the
blame.
Mas
De
dias
aqui
hay que longanizas.

d
manana muchas horas
hay.
De memoria de hombre no hay ejemplo de lo contrario.
no
There
is
Many
hours
haste.
come between now and
to-morrow.
The memory of man

the contrary.
runs
not to
no
En
SPANISH IDIOMS.
de antano no hay paja-
los nidos
Time must be
seized
by the
forelock.
ros hogano.
Haya cebo en el palomar, que

mas no faltaran.
Hay mas mal en
palo-
la aldehuela
que
There
more mischief
is
in the village
than comes to one's ears.
se suena.
Aqui hay gato encerrado.
Que
In time of prosperity friends abound.
los hay, los
hay;
la dificultad
es encontrarlos.
There is a mystery here.

There are fools ; the difficulty
find
them
is
to
(ironical).
No
haber hombre con hombre.

Haber Moros y Cristianos.
Haber Montescos y Capeletes.
To be at variance, or to quarrel.
To have violent and angry disputes.^
To have serious disputes and con-
Hay un zafarrancho.
There
Hubo
There was a great dispute.
tentions.
is
a great noise, confusion, or
squabbling.
toros y canas.
Haber
la
de mazagatos, 6
de San
la
Quinten.
Haberlas, 6 habe"rselas con alguno.
hay boda sin Dona Toda.

Haberlo de los cascos.
al
mal no hay un canto de
Debajo del sayal hay al.

Cuando la sarten chilla,
No
narrow.
Do
algo hay
not judge by appearances.

There is no smoke without fire.
la villa.
hay
olla tan fea
que no tenga su
cobertera.
Debajo de una mala capa hay un

buen bebedor.
Alia se lo haya, 6 se las haya
lo
fight.
The border-land between good and

evil is
real.
en
have a great
To dispute or contend with any one.

Some people are stand-bys in society.
To be cracked, addle-pated.
No
Del bien
To
avenga
alia se las
alia se
campaneen
There
is
no person or thing so con-
temptible as to be utterly useless.

External appearances are often deceitful.
There you are
in the
wrong, as you
will see.
alia lo veras.
No
Not
haber en que tropezar.

For do quiera hay su legua de mal
camino.
Everything has
Haber menester
To be
tutor.
to
be
in
any
difficulty.
its difficulties.
incapable of managing one's
affairs.
Mas aca hay posada

Sobre negro no hay tintura.
!
How
he exaggerates
It is difficult to correct
acter, or to excuse
a bad char-
bad
actions.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
hay hombre cuerdo a caballo.
Ill
El can de buena raza siempre ha

mientes del pan y la caza.
There are few who are equal to an

emergency.
One who is truly noble remembers
favors which have been shown
De
The
him.
rico a soberbio
no hay palmo
lo
hecho no hay remedio, y a
lo
por hacer consejo.

No haber quebrado un plato.
No hay cosa mas barata que la que
is
but
compra.
Haber a uno por confeso.
hay palabra mal dicha,

mal entendida.
la
not grieve for the past, but take
more care for the future.

Not to have committed a crime.
are sometimes costly in
Gifts
To
No
hay peor burla que
Do
the
end.
se
No
step from riches to pride
a short one.
entero.
si
no
es
confess by implication.
Nothing
is
ill
said, if
it
be not
ill
taken.
verdadera.
There
is
no worse
jest
than a bitter
truth.
Aun no ha
salido del cascar6n,
y ya
tiene presunci6n.
No
No
hay que
Do
irse atras.
hay estopas para
Scarce hatched, yet thinks himself

cock of the walk.
tapar tantas
not flinch.
One cannot
silence all the world.
bocas.
Donde hay
No
gana, hay mafia.

hay peor sordo que el que no
Where there's a will, there's a way.

None so deaf as he who won't hear.
oir.
quiere
Haber grado.
To
No
There
hay secreto que tarde 6 temprano no se descubra.
Las cosas han tornado otro semblante
6 han
give thanks.
is no secret which will not be
known sooner or
later.
Things have taken a different course.
mudado de sem-
blante.
Al alcornoque no hay palo que
le
Everything has a counterpart.
toque, sino la encima que le quie-
bra
la costilla.
Quien bueyes ha perdido, cencerros
To
entertain unfounded hopes.
se le antojan.
Mal haya
el
romefo que dice mal de
su bord6n.
The
pilgrim should not speak
Haber 6 sobrar
tela
de que
cortar.
To
hay
arbitrio
of
have a superabundance of any-
thing.
No
ill
his staff.
6 no hay esperanza.
There
is
no chance.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
112
Dos
"
hay solo en el mundo,

"
no Tener."
Tener," y el
linajes
el
There are but two families in the

"
Haves " and the
world, the
"
No
hay orejas para cada martes.
Have n'ts."
It is
not always easy to avoid
diffi-
culties.
pobreza no hay vergUenza.

haberle echado a alguno paja ni
cebada.
No
Hubo una
gran maquina de gente.
Poverty
Not
to
is
no shame.
know a
person.
There was a great
concourse
of
people.
Haberla mala.
To
No
There
hay piedra berroquena que durante ano, no ande lisa al pasamano.
Hay mas que
fail
will
There
agua.
tial
Hay mar gruesa
6 hay mar
There
hay tal madre como la que pare.

Sobre padre no hay compadre.
There
There
No
There
de
afuera
leva.
an enterprise.
in
no stone so rough
not smooth it.
that use
is
something not unsubstan-
is
there.
(He
is
rich.)
a heavy sea in the offing
is
(nau.).
No
is
is
no mother like one's own.

no love so complete as that
of parents.
hay mas cera que
la
que arde.
is
no more than what you
see.
No
hay nada escrito sobre
Cuando no hubiera mas
En
esto.
It
No
No
hay regla
sin excepci6n.
hay inejor remiendo que
there
or,
it.
Although there was no other reason.
raz6n.
mundo
cansado, ni hay bien

cumplido, ni mal acabado.
este
may not be so written

may be a mistake about
el
del
mismo pano.
Haberle quitado a uno los mocos.
No hay camino tan llano que no
tenga algun tropez6n 6 barranco.
el que invent6 el sueno.
Happiness and misery are neither

of them complete in this world.
There is no rule without exception.
Never trust to another what you
can do yourself.
To
have brought up a person.

is no road so even as not to
There
have stumbling-places.
Bien haya
Blessings
Hay un
There
juicio.
is
on him who invented
sleep.
a confused multitude of
persons or things.
Haber nacido
To be
tarde.
deficient in
knowledge or
in-
telligence.
caballo presentado
no hay que
Never look a
gift
horse in the mouth.
mirarle el diente.
He
de hacer un largo
viaje.
have to make a long journey.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
hay cenadura
si
de oro
es
la
There
ganzua.
There
bueno que
hay
que no tropiece.
El no haber novedad es buena
caballo, por
sea,
noti-
is
A man
No
no lock which a golden key
not open.
will
Sobre gustos no hay disputa.
No
is
113
no accounting
not wise at
is
news
is
for taste.
all
times.
good news.
cia.
Cuando
puerta es baja, hay que
la
He who
would enter a low door
must stoop.
agacharse.
No hay que extranar.

No hay busilis, 6 faltan los busilis.
En mal de muerte, no hay medico
No
wonder.
To be
We
penniless.
must bow to the
inevitable.
acierte.
que
haber mas que pedir.
Se han dado palabra.
No
It leaves
nothing to be desired.
are engaged to be married.
They
The term
El plazo se ha cumplido.
payment) has ex-
(for
pired.
Haya buena
cuenta,
y blanca no
parezca.
No
No
hay quince anos
Youth has always some beauty.
feos.
hay mas que abrir
los
ojos y
One needs
but to see in order to
admire.
mirar.
No
Accounts must be carefully kept,

even where no cash is paid.
hay mejor espejo que
el
amigo
The
best mirror
is
the face of an
old friend.
viejo.
Compuesta no hay mujer
fea.
No woman
is
ill
-looking
if
well
dressed.
No hay que darle vueltas.

Hablar Dios a alguno.
Hablar bien criado.
Hablar
liso
Hablar
al
y llano.
alma.
Hablar en globo.
Hablar al caso.
Hablar en
Hablar
No
al
plata.
oido.
hablarse.
This cannot be changed.

be inspired by God.
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
speak as a well-bred person.

speak frankly and openly.
speak plainly and
fearlessly.
speak summarily.
speak to the
speak
clearly,
point-.
without ambiguity.
whisper.
refrain
from speaking (in a quar-
rel).
Hablar por alguno.

Hablar con el dedo.
Hablar a coros.
To
To
To
Ni hablar,
Not
ni pablar.
intercede for any one.

speak as a master, with authority.
speak alternately.
to
open one's
pletely silent.
lips
to
be com-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
114
Cada uno
habla,
como quien
Each one speaks according
es.
to his
lights.
Hablar desde
Hablar entre
To speak with
To commune
la talanquera.
si
6 consigo.
security, impunity.
with one's self;
to
reflect silently.
Hablen
We must
cartas y callen barbas.
have
less talking
and more
doing.
Hablar en romance.
To speak
Hablar lobos.
There
quien no habla, no
le
God
oye Dios.
is
out
to speak plainly.
risk in
it.
does not hear those who do not
speak ; those who do not ask, cannot expect to receive.
To
Hablar de mecha.
hombre que no
de can que no ladra.
Librate de
habla,
speak in
Beware a
man, or a
silent
dog.
To make
Hablar por senas.
jest.
crafty
one's self understood by
gestures.
Habl6
el
" mu."
buey, y dijo
When
the ox spoke, he said
when
fools
talk,
"moo "
they talk non-
sense.
Hablar de oposicion.
To
To
Hablar de talanquera.
Hablar con lengua de
To find fault with an absent person.

To speak with a silver tongue to
Hablar
al gesto,
al
paladar.
speak
flatteringly.
speak in a sonorous and careful
way.
plata.
try to gain one's object
Hablar de
To
volateria.
talk in
by
bribes.
a wandering, desultory
manner.
Hablar de vras.
To criticise from a safe distance.

Much talking, much erring.
To be candid (in an unpleasant
Hablar en Vascuence.
To
Hablarlo todo.
To
Hablar desde
mucho
la
hablar,
ventana.
mucho
errar.
sense)
speak
Spanish unintelligibly,
brokenly (as in Biscay).
tattle
to gossip
to speak with-
out discretion.
Hablar de
vicio.
To be
loquacious, an
empty
terer.
Hablar por demas.

Hablar de la mar.
Hablar
al aire.
To
To
To
speak to no purpose.
talk on an endless subject.
speak idly or vaguely.
chat-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Hablar por hablar.
Hablar por las coyunturas, 6 por
los
To
To
115
talk for the sake of talking.
talk excessively.
codos.
Hablar gordo.
Hablar recio.
To talk indiscriminately.
To speak at random.
To talk without reflection.
To speak or act without reflection.
To speak without reason.
To speak without rhyme or reason.
To speak rapidly and indistinctly.
To gabble.
To mutter to mumble.
To stammer.
To speak in a sing-song tone.
To jest, or mock.
To boast bluster speak thickly.
To talk loudly, pompously.
Tener a me"nos hablar a uno.

Hablar de 6 en b6veda, 6 de papo.
Hablar por boca de ganso.
To speak pompously or arrogantly.

To echo what another has said (to
Hablar en comun.
Hablar a destajo.
Hablar de memoria.
Hablar u obrar a humo de pajas.
Hablar de cabeza.
Hablar a tontas y a locas, 6 a ciegas.
Hablar a borbortones.
Hablar de
hilvan.
Hablar entre dientes.
Hablar danzante.
Hablar en cadencia.
Hablar de
De
la
la
Eso
burlas,
6 de chanza.
abundancia del coraz6n habla

boca.
se
hace cuando a Dios place.
Not
to deign to
speak to a person.
speak by the mouth of a goose).

Out of the abundance of the heart
the mouth speaketh.
Nothing happens without God's permission.
Hacer nombre de Dios.
To
El ejercicio hace maestro.
Practice
He
hecho venir
al me'dico.
Comida hecha, compania deshecha.
begin a thing.
makes
The meal
serted
Hacer mal barato.

Hacer estudio de alguna cosa.
Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa.
La ocasi6n hace al Iadr6n.

Le hicier6n un tiro de cien
pesos.
eaten, the
(i.e.,
company de-
to desert those from
whom no more is to be expected).

To act \\Tongly.
To act artfully, craftily.
No sooner is a law made than a way
is
Algo ajeno no hace heredero.
perfect.
have called the doctor.
found to elude
it.
Ill-gotten inheritances never prosper.

Opportunity makes the thief.
They robbed him of a hundred
dol-
lars.
Lo que de noche se
aparece.
hace, a la mafiana
What
the night covers, the day dis-
covers
murder
will out.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
116
No
hace tanto
la
Hacerse pedazos
Hecho un Adan.
un ano
zorra en
como paga en una
porarily, but the
To
el vestido.
Hacer andrajos 6 pedazos.

Hacer gigote de alguna cosa.
Hacer anicos.
Hacer tajadas.
Hacer piezas.
Hacerse ceniza alguna cosa.
Perdonar hecho y por hacer.
Hacer la barba.
Hacer mal de ojo.
haz cuenta que no tiene
sal,
get one's dress torn.
In tattered clothes.
Hacerse pedazos.
Olla sin
and crime may succeed temday of retribution is sure to come.
Craft
hora.
To fall to pieces.
To tear to rags or pieces.
To cut or break into small pieces.
To break into fragments.
To destroy to break into fragments.
To break to pieces.
To destroy.
To be too indulgent.
To shave.
To fascinate.
;
Imperfect things are of
little
use.
manjar.
Hacer
Hacer
To
To
la salva.
de aplausos.
Hambre y esperar hacen
salva
rabiar.
Hacer sed.
Hacer las once.
Hacer la costa a alguno.
Ese te hizo rico que te hizo
give a round of applause.
Hunger and delay
To
To
To
el pico.
drink one's health.
induce
exasperate.
thirst.
lunch.
give a person food and drink.

It is easy to save money if one has
not to pay for one's board.
Hacer est6mago a alguna

Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
cosa.
pascua.
por
la vida.
agua
la
boca.
plato.
To make up one's mind to bear

what may come.
To begin to eat meat after Lent.
To eat something.
To make one's mouth water.
To carve to help to a dish at table.
To take pot luck -to do penance.
To take an appetizer.
To fill one's saddle-bags with pro;
penitencia con alguno.

boca.
Hacerle a alguno
la alforja.
visions.
Hacer mochila.
Hacer la cuenta
Hacerse
Hacer
la
sin la
huspeda.
tortilla.
mafiana.
Hacerse cargo de alguna cosa.
To
To
To
To
To
provide for a journey.

reckon without one's host.
fall flat
as a pancake.
take a morning draught.

take charge of anything ; to take
into consideration.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Hacerse cargo de un negocio.
Hacer
Hacer
apartadijos.
cala y cata.
Se hizo
el
seguro a tres por ciento.
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To take charge of a business.

To divide the whole into shares.
To examine the quantity and quality
of a thing.
insurance was effected at three
The
per cent
Hacer
inquisici6n.
Hacer
el
To examine books
or papers in
order to burn some of them.
diablo a cuatro.
No
hacerse la boda de horros, 6 no

de buenos ducados redondos, 6 de
To make
great efforts for success.
Great things can only be done
at
great cost.
buenos bollos redondos.
Hacer romana.
To
Dinero olvidado, ni hace merced ni
Useful things
unused.
grado.
Hacer
Hacer
las
Hacer
la
veces de otro.
las partes.
To
To
balance.
become
worthless
if
supply a person's place.

act in the place of another per-
son.
cama a un negocio.
Hacer milagros.
Hacer juego ; 6 hacer eco.
Hacer plaza.
Hacer barato.
Hacer buena alguna cantidad.
Hacer areas.
Hacer la pela.
Hacer gasto.
Hacer resto.
To
take the necessary steps for the

success of an affair.
To excel in any occupation.

To be well matched.
To sell at retail.
To sell below value.
To pay money due.
To open the coffers.
To praise one's wares.
To spend.
To agree upon a fixed amount
to
be
won
Hacer fortuna.
Hacer hombre a alguno.
Hacerse
Hacer
la
rico.
cuenta de
Hacerse 6 ser
la vieja.
el gallo.
me hicieron
blanca me era.
Duelos
Hacerse
Hacer
sal
sala.
y agua.
negra, que yo
or lost (gambling).
acquire money or position.
To
To make one's fortune.
To become rich.
To reckon on one's fingers.
To become the leader of a meeting
or body.
Troubles weigh heavily upon one, no
matter how strong he may be.
To
To
melt away (speaking of riches)

form a quorum ; to dance at-
tendance.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
118
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
To make a long stay.

To stop.
To have a good passage.
To perform quarantine.
To stop at a poor inn.
To make a stay in a place.
To make excursions.
To pack up to be off.
To make way.
To make room, or to make
una larga mansi6n.

alto.
buena
travesia.
cuarentena.
venta.
pie\
correrias.
la maleta.
calle.
rancho.
pro-
vision.
Hacerle
cama
la
To pave the way for one.

To grow late.
To wait.
To wait for an opportunity.
To make preparations for departure.
To be constantly at the window.
a alguno.
Hacerse tarde.
Hacer hofa.
Hacer tiempo.
Hacer la pacotilla.
Hacer la ventana.
Hace ocho
dias.
Eight days ago.
Pronto hara diez anos.
It will
Haga buen 6 mal
Be
Hacer
Hecho
Hacer
tiempo.
To chop
rajas.
La mujer
or dress lumber in an un-
workmanlike way.
Roughly made.
a machete.
la
soon be ten years.
rain or shine.
it
To
acechona.
algarera nunca hace larga
scrutinize
gossiping
to
be
inquisitive.
woman works
but
little.
tela.
Hacer a pluma y a
:
To
take a poor thing for lack of a

good one.
pelo.
Que haces bobo ? Bobeo

lo
que
me
escribo
deben, y borro
lo
que
The
selfish care
only for their
own
interests.
debo.
Necios y porfiados hacen ricos a
los
Fools
and obstinate people make
the lawyers rich.
letrados.
El necio hace
al fin lo
que
el dis-
The
fool
wise
crete al principio.
Quien mal hace, obrero coge.
A la mujer y a la vina
el
must do
man
did at
at last
what the
first.
pay others for doing what

they should do for themselves.
The care of husband or husbandman
Idlers
hombre
la
hace garrida.
is
visible in the
appearance of a
wife or a vineyard.
Quien bien
te morira.
te hara,
6 se
te ira
6 se
Unlucky people always have bad

luck.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Hacer
las
Donde
To do
cosas a troche y moche.
fuego se hace,
humo
things at random.
there is a fire there will surely
Where
sale.
119
be smoke.
Hacer
el
Not
sueco.
to understand (from inattention
or stupidity).
Hacer pucheros.
hiel hace amarga mucha
Poca
To
miel.
snivel
to fret.
gall will spoil
little
a great deal of
honey.
To remain behind one's company ;
to introduce improper subjects
Hacer soga.
in conversation.
No
To do nothing rightly.
To prove a thing.
To be still worse than
hacer cosa a derecho.
Hacer buena una cosa.

Hacer bueno a alguno.
is
Haz de
To
ese caldo tajadas.
Al cap6n que se hace
gallo, azotallo.
known
another,
who
to be bad.
ask for an impossibility.
Unfounded pride deserves punishment.
Hacer cola.
Hacer algo arrastrando.
Madre ardida hace hija
Quien ha
las
To be
To do
las sospe-
chas.
Quien en ruin lugar hace
vifia,
idleness in the daughter.

People who are themselves bad, generally think ill of others.
He who
cuestas saca la vendimia.
Hacer
frio,
Hace un valiente
Hace sorna.
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
el
in a
cold, or
poor
soil
cannot
harvests.
warm.
It is excessively cold.
frio.
Suffocating heat prevails.
caballo al fuego.
frente.
la
sows
expect good
To be
6 calor.
all.
something unwillingly.
Over-industry in the mother causes
tolida.
hechas tiene
the last of
To accustom the horse to fire (mil.).

To make head against to resist.
To withdraw from society for a sin;
encerrona.
ister
Hacer
To
tijera.
purpose.
grind the bit between the teeth
(horses).
Hacer un bodijo.
Hacer una de pdpulo bdrbaro.
Hacer San Juan.
To make a bad marriage.

To take a desperate resolution.
To leave a place before the stipu-
Hacer retroceder.
Hacer de alguno cera y
To push back.
To turn a person round one's
lated time (said of servants).
pabilo.
fingers.
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120
Hacer perder completamente
la es-
To
relinquish
all
hope.
peranza.
Hacer
costilla,
To
costillas.
bear the brunt; to bear with

patience
Hacer
To
corrales.
loiter
to suffer.
about in business hours, or
school time.
To bring an
To protect
Hacer causa.
Hacer sombra.
action (legal).
to
impede
to obscure
to outshine.
He
hecho prisionero.
No
Hacer buena 6 mala
Me
was taken prisoner.
To do everything wrong.
To act well or ill.
He has played me an ill turn.
To be fit for anything.
To form an opinion to be an
hacer cosa a derechas.

harina.
ha hecho una mala jugada.
Hacer a todo.
Hacer opini6n.
au-
thority.
Hacer
Hacer
To select.
To have the eyes dazed.
To consider one as present
distincidn.
los ojos telaranas.
Hacer, 6 hacerse presente.
to place
one's self before another.
To
Hacer hablar a un instrumento.
play an instrument with expression.
To be ropy (said of liquors).

To attend a meeting without
Hacer madeja.
Hacer cuerpo presente.
part in
De
escarmentados se hacen
dos
de
los
los arteros,
conoce
el
Lo que no
los avisa-
Experience teaches wisdom.
escarmentados nacen
el
escarmentado bien
vado.
se hace a la boda,
no
se
If
hace A toda hora.
Hacer
taking
it.
castillos
en
el aire.
you must ask a favor of a person,

do it when he is in a happy mood.
To
build
castles
in the air,
or in
Spain.
To
Hacer impresi6n.
have something on one's mind,
or heart.
De menos
nos hizo Dios.
The
desire for something great, or
difficult
Hecho
No hacemos moneda
No
hacer
moneda
of attainment.
d torno.
falsa.
falsa.
well-formed person.
Our conversation is not private
may listen if you like.

To say what is true.
you
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121
To be the first to lead.

To stop reading, or talking.
To make a confusion.
To improve one's position
Hacer punta.
Hacer punto.
Hacer merienda de negros.
Hacer palacio.
to dis-
what was concealed.

form a group.
close
To
To form a new party.
To accomplish something
Hacer corro.
Hacer corro aparte.
Hacerse alguna cosa
sin desgracia.
success-
fully.
La coz de
la
yegua no hace mal
al
Friendly reproof does no harm.
potro.
To bend and
Hacer combas.
distort the
body from
side to side.
To
Hacer papel.
cut a figure
to personate
to
act the part of another.
Hacer 6 poner de su
Hecho
Hacer
Hacer
parte.
To
try
to endeavor.
espaldas.
Inured to labor and hardship.

To bear ; to endure.
dorrnir.
To
al trabajo.
bring about
sleep
to put to
sleep.
Hacer un sueno.
Hecho una sopa de agua.
Hacerse una zarpa.
Hacer la vista gorda
Hacer raya.
.
To dream.
Wet through to the skin.
To get very wet.
to connive at ...
To wink at
to outshine
To be remarkable
.
others.
Hacer
Hacer
fuerza de remos.
clavo.
To
To
pull
hard with the oars.
set (applied to
mortar or plas-
ter).
Haz por
venir.
Hacerse a un
lugar.
"
Hacerse
to
Try
atras.
Hacer caediza una cosa.

La pared hace barriga.
Hacer calendarios.
come.
To accustom one's self to a place.

To fall back.
To let a thing fall designedly.
The
wall bulges,out.
Hacerse capaz de alguna cosa.
To muse.
To wait to be urged.
To make one's self
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
To
To
To
Hacerse de rogar.
master of a
subject.
calceta 6 malla.
labor.
labores.
knit.
sew.
take steps toward an end.
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122
Hacer cabeza.
Hacer bando &.
Har
lo
To be the leader.
To dissolve a connection.
parte.
que sea de mi agrado.
I shall
do
just as I please.
El nos hizo entrar.
He
Hacerse d
To accustom
las
armas.
called us in.
one's
self
do a
to
thing.
Hacer 6 cansar armonia.
To
Si hiciera la
If fate should decree.
trampa.
excite admiration.
Hacer de agua una cosa.

Hacer la cama.
Hacer cama.
Hacer una cosa con tiempo.
Hacer una tirada de mil ejemplares
de un libro.
To
To
To
To
wash a thing before using

make up the bed.
To
strike off a
Hacerse memorable.
To become famous or remarkable.

To become accustomed to a thing.
To accustom one's self to the water.
To accomplish an affair satisfactorily.
To strike in.
To be ready for anything.
To be dead.
To make a polite salute.
To clear a space.
To act as notary.
To acquaint to make known.
To curvet (horses).
To take great pains in doing any-
Hacerse a una cosa.
Hacer
el cuerptf al
agua.
Hacerse una cosa con bendici6n.
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
penetrar.
de todo.
bodoques.
besamanos.
lugar.
de escribano.
saber.
^)
<-- \
'
'
leisure.
thousand copies of a
book.
chazas.
Hacerse
keep one's bed.

do a thing at one's
it.
afiicos.
thing.
Hacer almanaques.
Hacer saltar chispas.
Hacerse de una cosa.
Hacer niebla.
<jQue resta que hacer, 6 por hacer?
No hagas caso 1
i
To be pensive, silent, musing.

To strike a light.
To provide one's self with a thing.
To become misty or hazy.
What is now to be done ?
Never mind
To do for the sake of doing.

To recall.
To procure a particular breed
Hacer por hacer.

Hacer volver.
Hacer casta.
of
animals.
Hacer
las diligencias
de
cristiano.
Por donde meres, haz como
vieres.
To perform the duty of a Christian.

When you are in Rome, do as the
Romans do.
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123
To make
Hacerse conocer.
one's self
known
to put
one's self forward.
Hacer
Hacer
To exceed
To await an
ventaja.
to surpass.
antesala.
audience
to
dance
at-
tendance.
Dos y dos hacen cuatro.

Hace aire.
Hacer su agosto.
Hacer humo.
Hacer hacer, 6 mandar hacer.
Two and
two make
The wind blows.
To make hay while
four.
the sun shines.
To smoke.
To cause to be made
to order
thing.
Hacer
venir.
Hacer
saber.
Hacerse
To
W-
*-*
atras.
Hacer animo, 6 intenci6n.

Hacer terrero.
Hacer salva de aplausos.
Hacer figura.
Hacer figuras ; hacer buche 6 gestos.
Hacer visajes, 6 invenciones, 6
order a thing to be
oblige one to come.
To inform.
sent
to
To move backward to go back.

To intend to make up one's mind.
To court a woman.
To give a round of applause.
To figure to make, a figure.
To make grimaces.
To make wry faces.
;
pucheros.
Hacer gestos a alguna cosa.

Hacer un mal recado.
Hacer buena hacienda.
To despise a thing.
To make a blunder.
To fall into an error
Hacer hacienda.
Hacer cerrada.
To mind one's business.

To commit a gross fault,
a fine job
(ironical).
or palpable
mistake.
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
burla.
de alguno.
plato de alguno.
fisga
To make fun of; to ridicule.

To make fun of any one.
To make one the object of ridicule,
or censure.
Hacer chacota de alguna cosa.

Hacer domingo.
Hacer a uno su dominguillo.
El hizo una de las suyas.
Hacer monas a alguno.
To turn a thing into ridicule.

To pass a week-day idly.
To make a person a laughing-stock.
Hacerse
To play the fool.

One fool makes many.
Un
el
tonto.
loco hace ciento.
He
played one of his pranks.

jeer at a person ; to put one to
shame.
To
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124
Hacer
Hacer
To make a
To fondle
fiesta.
fiestas.
holiday.
to flatter
to cajole
to
fawn.
To flatter, wheedle, or cajole.

To flatter a person.
To pay servile respect.
To flatter a person for a purpose.
To pretend friendship or reverence.
To flatter one's self with vain hopes
Hacer cocos ; 6 hacer la rueda.

Hacer la copla a alguno.
Hacer el buz.
Hacer la rueda a alguno.
Hacer la gatatumba.
Hacer cuentas alegres.
of success.
Quien
hace
te
nester
fiestas,
te
ha de me-
6 este huevo quiere
Hacer ceribones.
Hacer la zala.
Hacer saber alguna cosa.
Hacer bajar los ojos, 6 las
Too much
hacer
orejas.
alto.
too
much
craft.
humble one.
To overlook not to observe.

To boast of anything.
To boast of; to brag.
To glory in one's own deeds.
To boast of being a good singer.
To boast of one's ill deeds.
One who blusters at home may be
very meek where others have
;
Hacer vanidad.
Hacer alarde de ; hacer de persona.
Hacer gala.
Hacer de garganta.
Hacer gala del Sambenito.
El buey bravo en
manso.
To pay affected compliments.

To pay homage.
To let a person know a thing.
To disconcert to make one abashed;
to
No
courtesy
sal.
tierra ajena se
hace
authority.
Hacer de tripas coraz6n.

Hacer buenas 6 malas migas
Hacer falta.
To
To
To
pluck up courage
to bluster.
agree or disagree.
be unpunctual ; to disappoint
be necessary.
to
Hacer
Hacer
flatillo.
orejas de mercader.
Fulano me ha hecho una jiba.
Hacer extremos.
To
To
speak ill of a person.

turn a deaf ear to any one.
Such an one has wearied me.
To
caress
to manifest grief or dis-
pleasure.
Hacerse con una cosa.

Hacerse uno cargo de algo.
Hacer 6 tener concilio.

Hacer ir al rollo.
Hacer avergonzarse.
Hacer zumbar las orejas.
To obtain a thing rightly or wrongly.

To take upon one's self.
To hold unlawful meetings.
To discharge a person.
To put to the blush to frown down.
To sting by sharp reproach.
;
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Hacer llevar poste.
Hacer mala vecindad.
No hacer carrera a un
125
To keep a person waiting.

To be a troublesome neighbor.
Not
ciego.
to
lost
Hacer aire a alguna.

Hacer a uno perder los estribos.
Hacer un flaco servicio, 6 malos
ser-
show the way
one who has
to
it.
To vex or torment any one.

To make one lose his temper.
To do an ill turn.
vicios.
Hacer a una morder
To
el ajo.
mortify any one by disappointing

his hopes.
Hacer morisquetas.
Hacer agua de cerrajas.
To play a trick.
To throw a wet
Hacer
la
hopes.
To take counsel of one's pillow
consider carefully.
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
Hacer
la serafica.
cuenta con
almohada.
la
perdediza una cosa.

de bobo.
encorvada, 6 hacer derrengo.
la
despatarrada.
mortecina.
la
que
se hace.
gata ensogada, 6 la gata
la
blanket on one's
to
To play the angel for a purpose.

To pretend that something is lost.
To counterfeit idiocy.
To malinger.
To feign illness or death.
To feign death.
To pretend to be busy.
To feign humility.
muerta.
Hacer 6

To affect ignorance.
To affect timidity.
To pretend to be facetious.
To affect ignorance.
To pretend to be modest to con-
levantar figura.
Hacerse de nuevas.
Hacer
Hacer
la
temblona.
gracias.
Hacerse alcanzadizo.
Hacerse chiquito.
ceal one's knowledge.
To feign forgetfulness.
To remind to put in mind
Hacerse olvidadizo.
Hacer memoria.
to re-
member.
Hacer misterio.
Hacer de tripas coraz6n.
Hdgase
el
milagro,
hagalo
is
not lessened
by the obscurity of the doer.
diablo.
Hacer mesa
el
To make a mystery.
To pluck up heart.
The merit of a deed
gallega.
To
win
all
a person's
money
iit
gambling.
Hacerle d uno un hijo macho.
To weary a person with foolish talking.
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126
No me
hagas tanto que
Hacer caer.
Hacer cerrada.
Hacer guerra.
Hacer campo.
Do not trouble me, or I will

To strike down.
To commit a gross fault.
To wage war.
To clear the way to engage in
.
close
combat.
Hacer
Hacer
To face an enemy.
To wound in many places.
To receive an unexpected blow
cara.
carniceria.
Hacerse
las narices.
in
the face.
Hacer
la
To make
mostaza.
bleed with a
the nose
blow.
Hacer huir.
Hacer salir 6 brotar.
Haces mal, espera otro
tal.
To
put to
To
strike out.
Sow
flight.
the wind, and reap the whirl-
wind.
Hacer una pella.

Hacer flux.
To contract a debt.
To spend one's fortune
Hacer prenda.
ing one's debts.

To take a pledge
without pay-
or security for
debt.
No
hara casa con azulejos.
Hacer bancarrota.
Hacer estudio de alguna
cosa.
Spendthrifts gather no wealth.
To
To
fail
to
become bankrupt.
act with cunning, or deliberate
craft.
Hacerla a alguno.
Hacer entrar a uno por el arillo.

Hacer la puente de plata.
Hacer furo.
Hacer carne y sangre de alguna cosa.
To deceive any one.

To cheat or deceive any one.
To overcome difficulties by bribery.
To hide, with intent to steal.
To appropriate something which
does not belong to
Hacer
del Iadr6n
Quien hace un
fiel.
cesto, hara ciento.
us.
To be obliged to trust a thief.

He who makes one basket can make
a hundred he who steals a penny
;
will steal a
Hacer
ojo.
Hacerse
ojos.
Hacer del
ojo.
To
To
To
pound.
overbalance
to outweigh.
be very vigilant.
have a secret understanding
to
wink.
Hacer
eco.
To
accord or agree
remarkable.
to
do anything
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127
To raise or aggrandize
To do what is right
Hacer su casa.
Hacer la raz6n.
one's family.
to pledge in
drinking.
Hacer
To
valer.
give authority, support, protec-
tion.
Hacer honras, 6 estimaci6n.

Hacer merced.
To honor
To confer
To treat a
To caress
To oblige,
to esteem.
Kacerse de miel.
Hacer extremes.
Hacer placer, 6 por hacer placer.
La boca y la bolsa abierta para hacer
honor, or employment.
person very gently.

to fondle.
or please.
Kind words and
casa cierta.
many
liberal actions
make
friends.
Al que hace un yerro, y pudiendo no

hace mas, por bueno le tendras.
Those who are generally in the right

must be forgiven an occasional
Hacerse unas gachas.
To show
error.
favor
To
Hacer merced 6 mercedes.
great emotion
refused.
to grant
first
give to a person
to
do a kind-
ness.
Hacer limosna nunca mengua la bolsa.

Hacer caudal de
Hacer buen animo, 6 hacer rostro.
Hacer tiro.
.
Charity never makes one poorer.
To hold in high estimation.

To bear up under adversities.
To draw to pull to incommode
;
to prejudice.
Many littles make a

To be firm, secure
Muchos pocos hacen un mucho.

Hacer pi6.
mickle.
to settle in a
place.
Hacer
Hacer
To try to
To try;
para, 6 por salvarse.

diligencia.
save one's
to
self.
endeavor;
to
take
measures.
To
Hacer presente un derecho.
Mas hace
el
que quiere que
el
que
put in a claim.
there's a will there's a way.
Where
puede.
El que hace lo que puede, no esta
obligado a mas.
It is
Algo hemos de hacer para blanca
No
no man's duty
to
do more than
he can.
success can be attained without
labor.
ser.
Haz
bien, y gudrdate.
El dinero hace al hombre entero.
Be kind, but
Hacer
To do
The
also on your guard.

possession of wealth diminishes
temptation,
virtud.
well.
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128
Bonete y almete hacen cosas de
Arms and
make a
literature
family
illustrious.
copete.
Hacer rostro.
Arco de tejo y curena de
cuando disparan hecho han
Hacer presa.
To
serbal,
el
put a good face upon
mal.
To
it.
arms are dangerous to
Imperfect
him who uses them.

capture and secure any
living
thing.
To do good to a person.
To join an association.
Hacer buen tercio.

Hacer tercio.
Haz
lo
que tu amo te manda, y sencon el a la mesa.
Serve your employer
he
taraste
Hacer
To
la barba.
Help me, and
Hacer
Hacer
To make love.
To turn over a new
amor.
libro nuevo.
one's
Hacer ver por sus obras que uno es

bien 6 mal nacido.
No hacer mal a un gato.
Obra hecha, venta, 6 dinero espera.
Hacer las amistades.
Hacer alguna cosa por ensalmo.
and
shave.
Hazme la barba, hacerte he el copete.

el
faithfully,
esteem you.
will
I will
help you.
leaf; to
improve
or habits.
life
To show birth and
breeding by one's
actions.
To be
peaceful and meek.
Faithful labor secures a reward.
To make up after a quarrel.

To do a thing quickly, as
if
by
magic.
Ni hagas cohecho
ni
pierdas
de-
All bribes refuse, but insist
on dues.
recho.
No
la
hagas y no
La boca hace
Hacerse
la
Do
temas.
juego.
lugar.
Hacer milagros.
Hacer por llegar a tiempo.
Hacer, 6 no alguna cosa al
caso.
Cada cabello hace su sombra.

Hacer caso de una persona.
no
evil,
and
fear
no harm.
To be as good as one's word.

To gain a name or reputation.
To work wonders.
To try one's best to arrive in season.
To be material or immaterial to be
;
or not to be pertinent.
Every hair casts its shadow.
To pay
respect to
to
heed a
person.
Hacer de necesidad
La necesidad hace a
To make
virtud.
la vieja trotar.
a virtue of necessity.
Necessity compels activity and industry.
No
se hizo la miel para la

asno.
Hacer
la
apacheta.
boca del
Honey was not made

of an
To
for the
mouth
ass.
succeed
to
make
a fortune.
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129
To trust any one.

To form a league.
To enable a person
Hacer confianza de una persona.

Hacer una liga.
Hacer a uno el caldo gordo.
to gratify his
wishes.
Hacer gente.
Hacer ejercicio.
Hacer posta.
Hacer campo.
Hacer ciaboga.
To
To
To
To
To
Caballo hecho
al fuego.
raise troops or recruits.
take exercise
to drill troops.
stand sentry.
clear the way from a crowd.
turn back
to
be routed.
horse trained to fire-arms.
Hacer estrados.
Hacer estatutos.
Hacer testigos.
Hacer a dos palos.
To
To
To
To
Quien hace por comun, hace por
He who
give a hearing.
enact laws.
call
a witness on to the stand.
derive benefit from two offices
or sources at the
golondrina verano.
El buen vecino hace tener
ni
una
One example does
not
make a
rule,
nor one swallow a summer.

al
hombre
He who would
be well served should
serve himself.
aliiio.
Hacer guerra y paz de una
cosa.
A las barbas con dineros honra hacen
To
dispose of a thing at one's
by expectant heirs.
a mountain of a
To make
an elephant of a
elefante.
To
caracoles.
will.
Rich old men are respectfully treated
los caballeros.
Hacer de una pulga un camello, 6 un

Hacer
time.
no one.
ningun.
Ni un dedo hace mano,
mal
same
gives to the public, gives to
molehill,
flea.
turn alternately either
way;
to
prance (horses).
Hacer de
cuesta.
Hacersele d uno cuesta arriba alguna
To lie on one's back.

To do a thing very unwillingly.
cosa.
No
hacer
mucha cuenta de alguna
To
care very
little
for
a thing.
cosa.
Jurado ha
el
bano, de negro no hacer
Art cannot transform nature.
bianco.
Eso humanamente no se puede hacer.

Para
los
desgraciados se hizo la horca.
That cannot be done.

Poverty
is
often very helpless.
Hacer noche.
Two of a kind easily agree.

To stop at a place for the night.
Ss hace noche.
The
Hacerle
To
Lo que
la
la
loba hace,
al
lobo
cruz a alguno.
le place.
night falls.
avoid the company of any one.
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130
No
que hacer.
cannot
tell
what
to do.
Hacer una empanada.
To
Hacerse una
To love to excess.
To make an impression on
conceal in part; to speak with

reservation.
Hacer
jalea.
mella.
the
mind
by reproach or advice.
Dios
me
peda
hus-
depare mes6n que
la
me
husped
haga
algo, el
Commend me
hostess
n6n.
to the
care of the
than to
rather
that
of
the host.
Del dicho
al
hecho hay gran trecho.
Hacer rosca de
galgo.
There
a wide difference between

and
saying
doing.
To lie down and sleep wherever one
is
chance' to be.
may
Cada uno hace de
su capa
un
sayo.
Hacer 6 tener callos.

Hacer la candelilla.
De muchos cabitos se hace un
cirio
Every one may do as he

his own.
likes with
To be hardened against misfortunes.

To stand on head and hands.
Many littles make a mickle.
pascual.
Muchos pocos hacen un mucho.
Many
make a mickle
make a heavy purse.
littles
gains
light
Desdichas y caminos hacen amigos.
Misery and travelling lead to ac-
Hacer
To
quaintance.
intend ; to mean.
intenci6n.
tiene que hacer quien ha

de gustar a todos.
iLa costumbre hace ley.
He
JHacer caravanas.
To
Mucho
must
rise early
who would
satisfy
everybody,
Custom makes
law.
take various
means
to obtain the
same ends.
quien se hace de miel, se

las moscas.
comen
Hacer presente.
Hacer pensar.
Hacer acordarse.
Hacer las veces de otro.
Esto no hace con aquello.
;
Hazte
alia
Hacer
la
se vaya
mar.
vela.
Hacerse a
Daub
will
yourself with honey, and you

never lack flies.
To show to state to remonstrate.

To remind to give cause to suspect.
To put in mind to remind.
To act for another.
;
This does not agree with
Move on make way

Make him go
To put to sea (nau.).
To set sail (nau.).
To make sail (nau.).
!
Haga V. que
Hacerse a
lo
la vela.
that.
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131
Hacer zafarrancho.
Hacer fuerza de vela.
To make ready for

To crowd sail;
Hacer cabeza.
Hacer poca vela.
Hacer el bastardo.
To head (nau.).
To carry easy sail
To veer or tack
Hacer buen bordo.

Hacer camino para avante.
Hacer camino para popa.
Hacer derrota.
To make a good tack (nau.).

To have headway (nau.).
To make stern board (nau.).
To stand on the ship's course (nau.).
action (nau.).
to "carry on"
(nau.).
(nau.)
to bring the ship
before the wind (nau.).
Senales de hacerse a la vela.
El que
mal hace, nunca
Sailing signals (nau.).

le
falta
achaque.
The wrong-doer
is
never without a
pretext.
Quien no hace mas que otro, no vale

mas que otro.
Quien mala cama hace, en ella se
He who
is
does no more than another,
no better than another.
As you make your bed, so you must

lie.
yace.
Quien hace
lo
que quiere, no hace
lo
He who
does what he
likes,
does
que debe.
Hacer alguna cosa arrastrando.
not which he ought.

To do a thing against one's
Costumbres y dineros hacen
Courteous manners and abundant
los hijos
means make people popular.
caballeros.
Halagar con
will.
la
boca y morder con
To
flatter,
yet strike
to
be
false.
la cola.
No
hallar
agua en
la
mar.
To
be blind to what
in
plain
among
stran-
is
sight.
Hallar padre y madre.
To
find
good
friends
gers.
Hallar 6 dar traza para hacer alguna
To
find out
how
to
do something.
cosa.
Bien hallado.
Welcome
Mal
Uneasy
hallado.
Hallarse bien con alguna cosa.
To
No
Not
hallarse
en un
lugar.
Hallarse triste 6 enfermo.
No
I
hallar vado.
Lillarsc:
6 meterse en todo.
Hallarse con algo.

Hallarse contento.
Hallar
la
horma de
su zapato.
be
contented.
; easy ;
constrained ; unwelcome.
satisfied with.
to like a place.
To be sad or ill.
To be at a loss how to act.
To meddle.
To be in possession of.
To be content.
To meet with one's match.
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132
Hallar con
To be
el diablo.
me
he!6 la sangre en las venas.

Se hielan las piedras.
Se
My
very cunning or sharp.

blood curdles.
hard enough to
freezes
It
split
stone.
Helarsele a uno
<;
el
To be
coraz6n.
very
Did you
Heredastelo 6 ganastelo ?
much
astonished.
inherit your
money
or
make
(reproach for extravagance).

Children inherit the habits of their
it?
Quien
lo hereda,
no
lo hurta.
parents.
La
sangre se hereda, y
el vicio se
Blood
pega.
La
aquista.
Henchir 6
llenar la
cabeza de viento.
casco de un navio.
Herir
el
Herir
las letras.
6 los cielos con voces
el aire
hiere Dios
Blood is an inheritance, and virtue

an acquisition.
To make one vain to flatter.

To hull a ship to wound her hull.
To pronounce the letters.
To complain loudly; to rend the
;
very heavens with cries.

does not wound with
6 lamentos.
No
vol-
is
untary.
sangre se hereda y la virtud se
Herir
inherited, but vice
is
God
con dos manos.
hands
both
(his punishments are less
than our deserts).
To
be punished or afflicted by God.

Dangerously wounded.
Herir Dios A alguno.
Mai
herido.
Herir
To speak
la dificultad.
Poco a poco
hila la vieja el copo.
La mujer que poco
hila,
siempre
to the point.
Drops make up the ocean.

Idle people do not prosper.
mala camisa.
trae
Hincar
To
To
To
la rodilla.
Hincar 6 meter la una.

Hincar el diente.
kneel down.
charge excessive prices.

appropriate property to one's
calumniate ; to censure.
self ; to
Hinchar
No
holgar la
madera.
H6nreme V. con
su asistencia.
Quien a su mujer no honra, d
mo
To be excessively irritated.
To work incessantly.
Pray honor me with your presence.
las narices.
si"
mis-
deshonra.
Quien en tiempo huye, en tiempo
He who
He who knows when

knows
acude.
does not honor his wife,
dishonors himself.
he who
also
when
fights
to avoid risk,
to incur
to fight another day.
Huir de
los vicios.
To behave
it
and runs away
well or
ill.
or,
lives
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Huir de la quema.
Huir del fuego, y dar en
6 en las ascuas.
Huir
el
Huir 6 hurtar 6
falsear el cuerpo.
la dificultad.
Al enemigo
que huye, hacerle

de
puente
plata.
Huirse de la memoria.
Huir 6 escaparse por
la
the frying-pan into the
fire.
avoid or decline.
Beware
la cara.
Huir de
shun danger.
Out of
To
cuerpo.
huir que azotan
Huir
To
las brasas,
133
danger
To avoid a person.
To dodge a blow.
To evade an answer.
Make a bridge of silver
for
a flying
enemy.
la tangente.
To escape the memory.

To come out of a difficulty
dexter-
ously.
Hurtar
el
puerco, y dar los
por
pie's
Dios.
el viento.
Hurtar
el
Igualar las mercaderias.
No
importa un clavo.
Incorporarse en la cama.
It is
arriba.
Ir tras la corriente.
Ir contra la corriente.
rio
va
The
alto.
Ir cuesta arriba,
river
is
swollen.
To go up or down hill.
To decline to decay.
To deteriorate.
To decline gradually;
6 abajo.
Ir cuesta abajo.
Ir
of no consequence.
To sit up in bed.
To incur the imputation.
To work up the river.
To go down the stream.
To swim against the stream.
Incurrir en la nota.
El
and give away the
To go against the wind.

To alter the course (nau.).
To bleed a second time.
To put a fair price upon goods.
rumbo.
Igualar la sangre.
agua
steal the pig,
trotters for charity's sake.
Hurtar
Ir
To
en decadencia.
Irse muriendo.
to
die
inches.
Vamos
Vamos
i
al caso.
Let us come to the point.
claros.
Let us understand one another.
Alld va Sancho con su rocin
Ir
de rocin d
Ir
de vuelo.
There go the inseparables

To go from bad to worse.
ruin.
To
To
Ir al traves.
Va de
Va, d otro perro con ese hueso
disappear quickly.
go, not intending to return.
He
luto.
The
Kl vaso se va.
!
is
in
mourning.
vessel leaks.
Tell that to the marines
by
SPANISH IDIOMS.
134
Muchos van por
lana y vuelven tras-
Many
Tan
presto se va el cordero
carnero.
como
el
The lamb
The
vessel carries but
never
fuente,
que
el
cantarillo a la
al fin se quiebra.
uno el alma por alguna cosa.

con espig6n, 6 llevar espig6n.
Irsele a uno la lengua.
Irsele a
Ir
6 venir de contrabando.
6 andar tras
Ir
alguno,
sobre
alguno.
Ir a la raspa.
Irse
uno
la
little sail.
come
singly.
goest thou, misfortune?

where there is more.
The
pitcher goes once too often to

the well, and is broken at last.
to understand, or not to notice

a thing.
To be anxious.
To retire indignant or irritated.

To give loose to one's tongue.
To go or come by stealth.
To go in pursuit of a person.
To go in search of plunder.
To speak without reflection.
To speak unadvisedly from careless-
de boca.
Irsele a
spit
Not
Irse alguna cosa.
Ir
go to the
Whither
To
hay.
Tantas veces va
as sure to
Whither goest thou, sorrow? Whither

I am accustomed to go. Troubles
Adonde mas
mal?
vas,
is
as the sheep.
El barco va con poco pano.

Ad6 suelo.
I Ad6 vas, duelo ?
<jA donde
come back
seek wool, but
shorn.
quilados.
mula.
ness or anger.
Ir
To
6 andar de capa caida.
be
crestfallen
to decline in for-
tune or credit.
Irse los ojos tras
de una persona, 6
To
long for a person or thing.
cosa.
Si
da V. en
dera
Ir
Ir
ir,
6 venir, en eso per-
Brooding may craze you.
el juicio.
To conspire.
To move quickly and
de manga.
zumbando.
El se fu
gritando por toda la casa.
He
went
screaming
violently.
through
the
house.
Irse la
Ir
boca adonde esta
el
coraz6n.
en ruina.
Irse
por
el
mundo
adelante, 6 por
esos mundos.
Donde va mas hondo

menos
ruido.
el
rio,
hace
To advocate one's own wishes.

To go to ruin.
To withdraw from society on account
of disappointment.
Deep waters run quietly.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Un
135
When one
ruin ido, otro venido.
evil
is
another
gone,
comes.
por
Do
duras con
las
Vayan
las
las
maduras, 6
maduras.
take
tinta
no vayas
con quilma.
Alia vayas rayo en casa de Tamayo.
tu
Do
not expect good from one

you have injured.
<;
do
little.
No mode
buey que no are ?
ira el
whom
Other people's misfortunes touch us

but
things as they come, the
bad with the good.
con
tu padre fu
To
of
life
is
without
its diffi-
culties.
cada cuarto por su lado.

mas va en
Irse 6 caerse
Ello va en la comadre, 6
la
No
comadre que en la que lo

van los dias en balde.
pare.
To walk awkwardly.
Good luck and favor sometimes
avail
With
se
more than
time
merit.
our vigor and
health
diminish.
de hermanos,
Ira
de diablos.
ira
Family quarrels are the worst of all.
Ovejas bobas, por do va una, van
An
evil
example leads many
Do
not
flatter
astray.
todas.
No
se
alabando, 6 no te
ira
iras
alabando.
Hoy me
yourself that you will
escape punishment.
ir, eras
me
ir, mal la casa
Procrastination
is
the thief of time.
mantendre.
f rsele a uno
la
To
cabeza.
lose one's presence of
mind
to
lose one's reason.

Ir
To
alguno de vencida.
begin to be conquered
to
be
half done.
Ir fuera
To act erratically.
To be guided by the
de camino.
Ir al hilo del
mundo.
opinion of the
world.
Le va en
ello la vida.
<iPorqu
va
moneda ?
la vieja
Por
lo
His
a la casa de
que
se le pega.
life is
Why
at stake.
does the old
woman go
For what
mint?
(Imputation
of
she
to the
can
get.
mercenary mo-
tives.)
<;
Adonde
ira el
buey, que no are ?
the ox go where he
have to plough ?
To escape from one's memory.
To work or conduct one's self badly.
Whither
shall
shall not
Irse
de
Ir fuera
la
memoria.
de
trastes.
Irse a chitos.
To
That
Ni
eso voy.
va, ni viene.
lead a dissipated life.

is the point I am coming to.
Indecision
want of resolution.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
136
Eso
me
ni
me
va, ni
That does not concern me.
viene.
Ida y venida por casa de mi
tia.
To
explain or excuse one's conduct
a frivolous manner.
in
El se mete en
que no
lo
le va, ni le
He
Nada me va en
y
in
what does not con-
cern him.
viene.
Ir
meddles
ello.
Ir por justicia.
Alia van leyes,

Ir bien 6 mal.
have no concern in
To revolve a thing
To go to law.
venir.
do quieren
reyes.
The
it.
in one's
mind.
laws of kings are their own wills.

prosperously, or the re-
To go on
verse.
ir
gran
a mas
At the utmost speed.
ir.
To
Ir pasando.
be about the same, neither betnor worse.
ter
To be
Ir
mejorando.
El enfermo va bien.
The
convalescent.
invalid improves.
con alguno.
Quien no va a Carrara, no sabe nada.
To
Vamos
Let us come to the
Ir
al
alma del negocio.
agree with one.
He who
would know what is going

on must mix in the world.
gist
of the busi-
ness.
To go upon sure grounds.

To temporize.
To take the lead.
To compete with.
To escape to retire.
To ride on a donkey.
Ir sobre seguro.
amor
Ir al
del agua.
Ir
en
Ir
de apuesta.
la delantera.
Irse a leva y
Ir caballero
monte.
en burro.
Van de mascara.
They
Voy de
am going for pleasure.

To go to a picnic.
To make a short cut.
To act with one accord,
Ir
de campo.
Ir a
campo
are going in masks.
paseo.
travieso.
Ir a una.
harmoni-
ously.
Ir
To go on
en bonanza.
a
Irse
No
se ira
tres
por pies.
va
las tres
Ir alguno
con
el
prosperously
wind.
to sail with
To go out to amuse one's

To listen attentively.
de buro.
Ir a escucha gallo.
fair
It is quite sure
la
The
vencida.
compas en
la
mano.
To
it
cannot
third time never
-'
fail.
fails.
act with prudence
tion.
self.
and modera-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
buen viento va
All goes well.
la parva.
6 venir rompiendo cinchas.

Tan contenta va una gallina con un
Ir
polio
como
137
otra con ocho.
To go or come at full speed.

Whether her children be one or
many, the mother's heart
is full
of
not spent in one way,
is
love for them.
Lo que no va en
en
lagrimas, va
Vaya en gracia
Vaya bendito de Dios
Very good
is
spent in another.
suspires.
;
What
all right.
I do not wish
do with you
God be with you farewell
Be off clear out
I forgive
you
anything to
Vaya con Dios ; 6 vete con Dios

Vaya V. al cielo, a pasear
Vaya V. con la musica a otra parte
Alia va eso
!
\
alia
va
lo
que es
Alia se va.
It is all the
Vayase uno por

Ir en pos.
it
amounts
to the
Ir al encuentro.
Ir a la labor.
voy.
de vuelo.
Irse a misa,
same
thing.
To run after to follow.

To get to the point.
To go out to meet a person.
To walk side by side, as equals.
To go to school (speaking of girls).
I am going presently.
To disappear quickly.
To go out early, and come home
Ir lado a lado.
Ir
Let one go instead of the other.
otro.
Ir al grano.
Ya
Away with you be off

Have a care beware
same
have
to
y venirse a nona.
late.
boda y a bautizo no vayas
sin ser
Do
not go into
To
pass off like
company
uninvited.
llamado.
Irse
Do
todo en humo.
va
la
mar, vayan
las
ondas, 6 las
arenas.
Ir a pie.
Ir
a ta!6n.
Ir
derecho
como una
vela.
Ir a los alcances.
Ir
Ir
desempedrando
la calle.
6 andar chiticallando, 6 de pun-
smoke
con
tiento.
Ir adelante,
6 por adelante.
to
be of no
consequence.
not risk the least where you have
lost the most.
Do
To walk.
To go on foot.
To go in a straight line.
To pursue very closely.
To walk exceedingly fast.
To go on tiptoes.
tillas.
Ir
To go on
To go on
softly.
;
to proceed.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
138
To
Irse los pies.
^Para que va la negra

blanca no puede ser?
al
si
fuerte.
dias y viniendo dias.
No
6 no quedarse en zaga.
Ir a medias ; a la par ; 6 a la parte.
ir
Ir pagando.
<i
For donde va
some
Buena va la danza
Buena va la danza, y da
el
granizo
con
con Dios.
Este camino va a Madrid.

i
Vamos
a la
mu
God's power.
is
the wind
that matter getting
little
(ironical).
how much
sees
blow?
on ?
will cost
his present
him.
To run away to escape.

To follow the multitude.
To go in search of a thing.
To absent one's self.
;
viento que corre.
el
resist
amusements
Irse a ojeo.
Irse
He
la albarda.
Irse por sus pies.

Irse
im-
is
time.
Fine doings indeed
en
what
To make a coasting voyage.

To be inferior to none.
To go halves.
To pay by instalments.
How
i
slip.
Which way does
danza ?
la
Nothing can
After
andar, navegar costa a costa.
Ir,
or to
slide,
It is useless to try for
possible.
de Dios no hay casa
ira
Yendo
bano,
This road leads to Madrid.
Go
to sleep
(addressed to chil-
dren).
Mucho va de Pedro
en demanda de
Ir
d Pedro.
en busca de, 6 por algo.

Cuanto va ?
Ir
<:
Van
cien doblones que es cierto.
There
is
a wide difference between
man and man.

To be on the lookout for
To go for.
How much will you bet ?
I bet
a hundred
...
pistoles that
it
is
true.
;
Vete a espulgar
Va
Yo
declinando
Ir,
correr, pasar
fui alia
el
galgo
el dia.
de un
Go
to the devil
It is
aliento.
went there in the twinkling of an

%
eye.
como
gato por bra-
To
de apuesta.
Ir d la
No
ir
run as lightly as a cat on burn-
ing coals.
sas.
Ir
near the close of day.
mano
tirar
a alguno.
a ninguna banda.
To compete with another.

To restrain any one.
To
Oraci6n de perro, no va
An
al cielo.
make any difference.

insist, even when knowing
Not
Bobos van al mercado, cada cual

con su asno.
to
self in the
one's
wrong.
ungracious request, or a surly
act, gains
no
favor.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
For
de "despues"
la calle
se
va a
la
"
casa de nunca."
Vanse
los gatos,
y estiendense
los
ratos.
139
the street of "By and by" one

arrives at the house of " Never."
By
When
the cat's away, the mice will
play.
Ir d perdidas
To
y ganancias.
take a share in the profits and
risks of a business.
To
To
Ir perdido.
Ir
con
ir
sonda en
la
mano.
sordo.
Iba con su
j
la
Vaya
proceed with great caution.
Silently
Don
quietly.
She went with her old
Atanez.
diablo por ruin
el
be at a disadvantage.
To
lover.
meanness
the devil with
(in-
tended to stop a quarrel)

Act quickly, and prevent mischief.
.
Vaya
diablo para male
el
Ir a la guerra, ni casar
no
se
ha de
ference.
aconsejar.
Ir
de un extreme a
To pass from one extreme to another.

To ride on horseback.
To conform to custom.
To go against wind and tide (liter-
otro.
Ir d caballo.
Irse
el chorillo.
por
Ir contra viento y
In war and love beware of inter-
Alia va con Dios
marea.
ally and metaphorically)

About ships (nau.).
Ir derecho.
To
Ir velejeando.
Sailing
Ir contra
marea.
con
proa a
Ir
la
sail in
a straight
line (nau.).
on the same course
To sail against the

To head to the
mar.
la
(nau.).
tide.
sea, or
seawards
(nau.).
Ir,
irse
a pique
6 por ojo
6 a
To
founder
to
go to the bottom.
fondo.
Jorobar la paciencia.
Jugar una pieza.
Jugar una tacuacha.

Jugdrsela d uno de codillo.
Jugar
la voz.
Jugar de lomo.
Jugar
el lance.
Jugar
los anos.
Jugar d
6 Ie6n.
castillo
To worry or provoke a person.

To play a trick, a practical joke.
To play a very pretty trick.
To trick or outwit a person.
To sing with many variations.
To be robust and healthy.
To conduct an affair ably.
To play without gambling.
To toss up a coin, betting on
its
fall.
Jugar d cara 6
Jugar
al
lis.
desquite.
To
To
bet on the toss of a coin.
gamble, doubling the stake

each loss.
at
SPANISH IDIOMS.
140
Jugar el sol antes que saiga.

Jugar discreciones.
To gamble away to-morrow's salary.

To gamble for gifts to be chosen by
Jugar de balanzas.
To use false weights.

To gamble away all one has.
To make a follow (billiards).
To draw a ball (billiards) to
the loser.
Jugar hasta
la
camisa.
Jugar sucio.
Jugar limpio.
deal
fairly.
Jugar en
Jugar a
Jugar a
To gamble in stocks.
To deceive a person with vain hopes.
To play with a ball.
To gamble for heavy stakes.
To fail in a promise.
To think of and arrange a thing.
To unite interests.
la bolsa.
pelota con alguno.
la
la pelota.
Jugar fuerte, 6 grueso.

al
Jugar
morro con alguno.
Juntar partes 6 cabos.

Juntar meriendas.
Dios
y ellos se juntan.
a
los
buenos, y seras uno de
Juntate
los cria,
Birds of a feather flock together.

Keep company with the good, and
thou shalt be one of them.
ellos.
Jurar alguna plaza 6 empleo.

Jurar en su anima, 6 en anima de
To
To
take oath of office.
swear upon one's conscience.
otro.
Quien juzga dos amigos, pierde uno

6 los dos.
Cada uno juzga por el suyo el coraz6n ajeno.
Labrar 6 batir moneda.
Labrar a fuego.
Labrar 6 coser y hacer albardas,
todo es dar puntadas.
el
perro y no
me
arbitrates
friends, loses
We
all
between
two
one or both.
judge others by ourselves.
To coin money.
To brand an animal.
To confuse subjects
or
terms
in
speaking of them.
Barking dogs seldom
Perro que ladra, no muerde.

Ladrar el est6mago.
Ladreme
He who
bite.
To be
muerda.
hungry.
Threats known to be empty are of
no
Sin padre ni madre, ni perro que
me
am
avail.
entirely independent.
ladre.
Larga
las
brazas de la gavia.
Let
the
go
maintop -sail
braces
(nau.)
All sails set (nau.).
Up tack sheets (nau.).
.
Toda
vela larga.
Larga
Largar
ojo.
el lof.
el
cable por el chicote, 6 por
To pay
out the cable, end for end
(nau.).
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To
To
To
To
To
To
Largar las velas.

Lanzar manos en alguno.
Lavar la cara a alguna cosa.
Lavar a uno
Lavar
los cascos.
cara a alguna persona.
la
Lavar de lana a alguno.
141
set sail (nau.).

arrest a person.
brush up
flatter
No
To
manos.
las
lo lavara
con cuanta agua
lleva
investigate an affair
To
To
si.
unmask
justify one's self.
to
Leer para
to
faults.
whole
el rio.
Leer de oposici6n.
to clean.
flatter.
a person's
Lavarse
to cajole.
river would be insufficient

wash away his faults.
read to one's
self.
maintain a thesis as candidate
for a professorship.
Leerle a uno la
To give a person a lecture.

To cut the cards.
To rise from bed.
To raise a blockade.
To remove the encampment.
To raise a siege.
To enlist troops.
To raise the standard to take command of a party.
To make a commotion.
cartilla.
Levantar.
Levantarse.
Levantar
el
cerco.
Levantar
el
campo.
Levantar un
sitio.
Levantar tropas.
Levantar banderas.
Levantar una tremolina.
No
levantaras falso testimonio.
Levantar
Uno
la caza.
levanta la caza, y otro la mata.
Thou
shalt not bear false witness.
To start the game in hunting.

One beats the bush, and another
catches the bird.
Levantar un articulo de comercio.

Levantar
las
cosechas.
Galgo que muchas
liebres levanta, a
ninguna mata.
Levantar los manteles, 6
Levantarse
raise the value of a thing.
gather the crops.'

that starts too
The dog
la
mesa.
el viento.
To
Levantar con algo.

Levantar el espiritu.
hares
clear the table.
The wind rises.

To make a person angry
him
alto.
Levantar un piano 6 mapa.

Levantar el caballo.
el vuelo,
many
catches none.
Levantar a alguno hacia arriba, 6 tan
Levantar
To
To
los vuelos.
to rouse
to anger.
To draw a plan or map.

To gallop a horse.
To take possession of anything.
To take courage.
To cheer one's spirits.
SPAXISII IDIOMS.
142
Quien
ni
se levanta tarde, ni
come
oye misa,
carne.
many
blessings.
Levantar
los ojos.
Levantar
el estilo.
Levantarse a
Indolence stands in the way of
las
6 a
estrellas,
las
To
To
To
look up.
use eloquent language.
be lifted up with pride, or ex-
cited with anger.
nubes.
Levantar alguna roncha.

Levantarse las piedras contra uno.
To cause a
To be very
great pain.
bad, unpopular, and un-
fortunate.
Levantar
el
To
pensamiento.
conceive the idea of something
heroic.
Levantar 6 alzar
las
manos
al cielo.
Levantar velas.
Levantar 6 arrancar
la casa.
Levantar 6 subir a alguno sobre los

cuernos de la luna.
Levantar 6 sacar de su cabeza alguna
To supplicate to pray.
To abandon one's residence.
To break up housekeeping.
To praise a person to the skies.
;
To
invent something.
To
retrieve one's fortunes
cosa.
Levantar 6 alzar
Levantar
la cabeza.
to take
courage.
extol one's self; to be elated.
To
To
la cerviz.
Levantar de cascos.
induce a person, by promises,

do an unwise thing.
to
Levantarle a uno de cascos.
To
fill
one's head with idle preten-
sions.
Levantar fuego.
Levantar una cantera.
Levantar 6 alborotar
la caza.
To promote dissension.
To cause disturbance, commotion.
To make a disturbance by unwise
words.
To
Levantar polvareda.
raise a dust
to excite disturb-
ance.
i
De
de Senor, y de alboroto de
pueblo, te libre Dios
ira
God
preserve you from an incensed

people or from the anger of one
!
in
Librarse de buena.
j
me
Dios
libro
libre
de hombre de un
power
book
To escape from danger.

God deliver me from a man
of one
Librar bien 6 mal.
To
The best that could possibly happen.

Smooth waters run deep.
buen librar.
Del agua mansa libreme Dios, que
bien, 6 a
de
la
brava
me
guardare" yo.
get over a thing, well or
ill.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To
To
Limpiar las laltriqueras a uno.

Limpiarse de calentura.
Con
viento limpiaran el
con
vicios
el
Sanan
llagas
los
pick a person's pockets.

get rid of a fever.
Grains are winnowed by the wind
Do
by punishment.
not rub your eyes.
oido.
To
tickle the ear
y no malas palabras.
The tongue wounds more deepl
el
vices
castigo.
El ojo limpiate con

Lisonjear
trij>o,
143
codo.
to natter.
than the sword.
La mala
llaga sana,
la
mala fama
A wound may
La
be cured, but hardly
a bad reputation.
mata.
The wound becomes
llaga se indigna.
irritated,
01
inflamed.
Llamar a
To knock
la puerta.
Llaman.
Some one
Quien llama ?
Llamar por los nombres.
Llamar 6 dar voces para que
Who
se
haga
To
To
is knocking.
there?
is
call the roll.

call
out orders to have some-
thing done.
alguna cosa.
Llamarse andana, 6 antana.
Dinero llama dinero.
To
Se llama Francisco.
His name
Llamar
To
la
parada.
at the door.
retract
to contradict obstinately.
Riches attract
is
riches.
Francis.
hold the
game
in
check (hunt-
ing).
Este manjar llama

Llamar a Cortes.
Llamar
la
causa de
la sed.
la
enfermedad.
El buey suelto bien se lame.

Bolsa sin dinero, llamola cuero.
This dish provokes
one point to another.

is a blessing.
Liberty
Like a purse without money

useless)
Iglesia
me
llamo.
thirst.
To convoke parliament.
To remove the cause of disease from
am
(/>.,
called
criminals
the church (said by

in the
who seek asylum
church, and try to conceal their
names).
Un mal llama a otro.

No me llames bien hadada hasta que
me veas enterrada.
Llamarse nones.
Cuando
fueres a casa ajena, llama a
la puerta.
One
Call
ill
calls
me
up another.
not fortunate
till
me buried.
To deny a thing.
Do not be too familiar in
of others.
you see
the houses
SPANISH IDIOMS.
144
Mi padre
se llama
me
To
boast of unreal riches.
llamarle a
To
die.
Hogaza, y yo
muero de hambre.
Llamar Dios a alguno, 6
juicio, 6 llamarle para si.

El viento llama a proa, 6 a popa.
The wind
hauls
forward, or veers
aft (nau.).
No
llegar.
Llegar y besar.
Lleg6
el bajel
No
sooner said than done.
short
be
to
inferior.
ship put into port on account

of stress of weather.
la calza.
First
The
llega a la rodilla.
llegar uria
fall
No
The
de arribada.
El que primero llega ese
La capa
To
persona 6 cosa a
otra.
come,
served.
first
cloak reaches to the knee.
This person, or thing, does not equal

that.
Acabo de
have just arrived.

To understand.
I
llegar.
Llegar a entender.
El gasto Ileg6 a cien pesos.
The expense amounted

dred
No
llegar a
Me
llega el turno,
uno
camisa
la
al
cuerpo.
6 mi vez.
My
Llegar a oidos, 6 a sus oidos.

tuerto llega el
hom-
bre a su derecho.
Llegar a oir.
Llegar a las manos.
Llegar a los anises.
Ha
llegado
Llegar
No
No
tiempo.
poder.
llegara a colmo.
Esto
Me
al
el
me
terrified
and anxious.
turn comes.
To find out.
To come to one's
Llegar a saber.
Con un poco de
To be
to a hun-
dollars.
llega a las entranas.
llegaba el agua a la garganta.

llegar al zancajo, 6 a los zan-
knowledge.
In order to get our rights we must
sometimes bear insults.
To hear.
To come
To come
to blows.
the day after the

time has come.
The
To come
It will
into power.
not
That goes
come
to
to perfection.
my
heart.
The water was up
To be
in
fair.
to
my
neck.
no respect equal
to an-
other.
cajos.
Asi que Ileg6 la noticia.

Llegar a las aceitunas.
As soon
To
as the
arrive at a
news
arrived.
banquet when
it
is
nearly over.
Llegar a
las
inmediatas.
No llegar a la suela del

Llegar a
las
zapato a otro.
telas del corazbn.
To arrive at the critical moment.

To be very inferior to another.
To offend a person in his most tender point.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
145
Llegar 6 llegarse la hora, 6 hacer
The time
hora de alguna cosa.

Llegarle a uno su hora
time to do something.
The last hour, or the hour of death,
has come.
6 llegar
la
ultima hora.
No
llegar al zanco, 6 a los zancajos.
Not
come up
to
in
for action has
any
To
Llena
The moon
la luna.
manos
Hombre
llenas.
it
is
approach one
confuse a question.
is full.
Liberally; abundantly.
learned man.
lleno.
Llenar a uno
line.
Llenar una cuesti6n de tinieblas.
to or
come
la
To
cara de dedos.
give a blow in the face with the
fist.
To correspond to one's wishes.

To fulfil one's hopes.
To abuse a person in unmeasured
Llenar, 6 henchir las medidas.
Llenar
la esperanza.
Llenar a uno de vituperios.
terms.
Papo a papo
llena
la
el
gallina
Little
by
little
the hen
fills
her crop.
buche.
Llenar
Mas
To
la sacristia.
quiero asno que
caballo que
me
me
lleve,
que
gormandize.
I like better the ass that carries
me,
than the horse that throws me.
derrueque.
To
Llevar la carga.
bear the burden of anxiety one's
self.
Llevar y conllevar.
Llevar por cortesania.
Llevar adelante su designio.

Llevar la suya adelante.
Llevar estudiado.
Muchas veces
hombre a
lleva el
con que llore.

Los sembrados llevan mucho
Llevar la cruz en el pecho.
su
casa, cosa
vicio.
Llevar un plant6n.
Llevar una cosa por sus arcaduces.
Llevar la
mano
ligera
6 blanda.
Llevar blanda la mano.

Llevar en hombros.
Llevar a cuestas, 6 arreo.
To bear and forbear.

To be polite, courteous.
To carry one's point.
To carry one's point.
To study beforehand.
One must not give the freedom
one's home indiscriminatdy.
The
cornfields are luxuriant.
To wear a decoration.
To dance attendance.
To conduct an affair properly.
To treat kindly, indulgently.
To have a gentle touch.
To support to protect.
To carry on one's shoulders to
;
tain
Llevar 6 traer a lomo.

Llevarlo 6 llevdrselo de calle.
of
sus-
to support.
To carry on one's back.

To overpower another in
argument.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
146
Llevarse la mapa.
Llevarse en el pico.
To excel to outshine.
To excel another in doing a thing.
To have a dowry (said of a woman).
To deserve the respect of the public.
To come off victorious.
To prove victorious.
To bear five per cent interest.
To carry one's head high to be
;
Llevar dote.
Llevar la gala.
Llevar lo mejor.
Llevar de vencida.
Llevar cinco por ciento de interns.

Llevar la cabeza erguida.
elated.
Lo
bien ganado se lo lleva
el
diablo
Ill-gotton gains are
soon
lost.
y lo malo, a ello y su amo.

Estos dos amigos se llevan muy bien.
Llevar lena al monte ; 6 hierro a
To
carry coals to Newcastle.
Vizcaya.
Llevar los soldados a la carga.
Llevar lo mejor, 6 la mayor parte en
To
To
lead the soldiers to the charge.
These two friends agree very
well.
be victorious.
un asunto.
Llevarse el dia, 6 la palma.
Llevar lo peor, 6 la peor parte en
un asunto.
To carry the day.

To be conquered.
Llevar de suelo y propiedad.

Llevar un poste.
To be peculiar
To wait a long
Llevo dinero encima.
have money about me.

The horse that carried him.
llevar alguna cosa
time.
El caballo que le llevaba.

Llevar d uno de un cabello.
No
in source or origin.
camino.
Llevar en peso.
Lleva una casaca a la francesa.
To lead one by the nose.

To be without foundation
To carry in the air.
He wears a coat made
or reason.
in the
French
fashion.
TJevarse de calle alguna cosa.

Llevar consigo
.
Llevar buen trote.

Llevar por delante.
la noticia a alguno.
Llevar
Yo duro
lo
y vos duro,
quien llevara
maduro?
Llevar d la rostra.
Llevar de sobreojo a uno.

Este camino lleva a Madrid.
Le
To carry everything before one.

To be a consequence of ...
To go quickly.
To bear something in mind.
To bring word to one.
Two obstinate people, or two timid
llevo
dos anos y medio.
people, can never agree.
To drag
To keep
along.
a watchful eye on one.
This road leads to Madrid.

I
am
he.
two and a half years older than
SPANISH IDIOMS.
I
Cuanto
me
lleva V.
147
How much
por esto ?
do you charge me
for
most secure
not
this?
That which
Al seguro llevan preso.
is
is
beyond danger.
Llevar 6 no lltvar
el
est6mago alguna
cosa.
Llevar de suelo y propiedad.

Llevarse 6 hacer huir una calle de
An
article of food agrees or does

not agree with one.
To be essentially a part of a person
or thing.
To
Llevar
la palabra.
Tripas llevan coraz6n, que no cora-
z6n
to flight; to
To speak as representative of others.

To be courageous and energetic, it
is
tripas.
Llevarse los ojos.

Llevar, 6 tener los ojos clavados en
necessary to be well fed.
To call the attention of bystanders.

To keep one's eyes fixed on the
ground ; to be very shy.
be another's amanuensis.
el suelo.
To
To
pluma a alguno.
Llevarse el dia en una cosa.
Llevar
many people
put
scatter a crowd.
hombres.
la
spend the whole day on some-
thing.
La tierra negra buen pan lleva.

Tierra de pan llevar.
Al hombre vergonzoso, el diablo
Ilev6
Llevar
En
A
le
a palacio.
el
dark
soil is
generally rich.
Land which produces wheat.
diffident
man
should not go to
court.
To
compas.
Castilla el caballo lleva la
silla.
beat time in music.
In Castile the son inherits the rank

of his father, irrespective of that
of his mother.
To put one in great danger.

To be dismissed to be sent away.
To be on good or bad terms.
To make a mistake.
To go away offended and in a pas-
Llevar al degolladero.
Llevar calabazas.
Llevarse bien 6 mal.
Llevarse petardo.
Llevar mosca.
sion.
Llevar 6 sufrir bochorno.
Llevar un golpe, porrazo.

Llevarse de ira ; 6 tomarse de
Llevar
clemasiado
adelante
la ira.
una
To be insulted, affronted.
To get a blow.
To become enraged.
To carry a jest too far.
chanza.
Llevar a mal.
Llevar recado.
To
To
take a thing ill.

take a message
manded.
or to be repri-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
14S
Llevar azotes.
To be
Llevarselo la trampa.
Llevar 6 pasar a cuchillo.
It is entirely spoiled.
To
To
Llevar que rascar.
Lo mas encomendado
lleva el gato.
whipped.
put to the sword.

be well drubbed.
Things most carefully treasured are

sometimes lost.
Llevar, tener, 6 traer al rev en su
To show
cuerpo.
Llevar 6 traer la vida jugada.
Llevar una unidad de cada decena
To be in danger of death.
To carry one (arith.).
para anadirla a la suma de

lumna inmediata.
i
Que se lo lleve pateta

Todo se lo Ilev6 pateta
May
!
Llevar 6 traer la soga arrastrando.

el
to put
on
airs.
la co-
Palabras y plumas
authority
viento las lleva.
All
the devil take
is lost
it
To be
in danger of arrest
committed.
for a
crime
Promises are easily broken.
Llevar consigo a una persona.

Llevar de vuelta.
To lead an easy, idle life.

To be suspicious to be afraid.
To make a person accompany one.
To make a person retrace his steps,
Llevar de los cabezones.
To
Llevar la vida de can6nigo.

No llevarlas todas consigo.
or return.
take a person away against his
will.
No
nos llevamos bien.
We
do not agree
well together.
Llevarse petardo.
To carry unsafely.
To be disappointed.
To be disappointed.
To make a mistake
Llevar una caida.
pointed.
To get a fall, or to be a disappoint-
Llevar en
vilo.
Llevar alguno en la cabeza.

Llevarse chasco.
to
be disap-
ment.
Llevarse calzones.
Llevad vos marido

Ilevar6 el
la artesa,
que yo
cedazo que pesa como
To
To
lose all the tricks at cards.
take the easy part one's self, and

leave the difficult things for others.
el diablo.
Llevar buena salida.
Llevar salida.
Llevar
la
Llevar
las velas
Llevar
las velas llenas.
proa
al
nordoeste.
a buen viento.
To have good headway (nau.).

To be under weigh (nan.).
To stand to the northwest (nau.).
To fill the sails (nau.).
To keep the sails full (nau.).
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To
Llevar los juanetes viados.
149
have the
sails
top-gallant
set
(nau.).
To
To
Llevar poca vela.

la proa hacia la mar.
carry easy
sail
(nau.).
coraz6n de mante-
stand out to sea (nau.).

Heart of butter, why weepest thou ?
Llorar a lagrima viva, llorar lagrimas
To exaggerate one's misfortunes.

To weep tears of blood to lament
Llevar
^De qu
lloras,
quilla ?
Llorar lastimas.
de sangre.
nino llora, acallelo su madre, y
no quiere callar, dejelo llorar.
L16rame solo, y no me llores pobre.
Llorar con un ojo.
Si el
si
Llorar con
Llora
No
ambos
ojos.
and
yo sus duelos.
boca cerrada, y no dar
cuenta a quien no se le da nada.
llorar^
Friendlessness
is
who
loss.
at sunrise
falls
weeps.
He will have
not
business,
worse than poverty.
To affect grief.
To lament a great
Do
own
others alone.
let
The dew
la aurora.
Llorar
very bitterly.
Let each one mind his
many
or,
Aurora
misfortunes.
your sorrows to those

will neither sympathize nor
tell
help you.
Llover a cantaros, 6 a chorros, 6 d

chuzos.
i
Como
ahora llueven albardas
To
rain in torrents
or, to rain cats
and dogs.
Now
it
rains
pack-saddles
(said
when hearing a very improbable

statement).
Without preparation or advice
secas y sin Hover.
un-
expectedly.
Llueva, 6 no.
Lluova para mi Abril y Mayo, y para
ti todo el ano.
Rain or shine.
Let the rains but come during April
and May ; the rest of the year is
of less
Luchar contra
la corriente.
Luchar con
muerte.
la
onsequence.
To oppose general opinion.

To be long in agony to be
;
long in
dying.
Lucirlo.
\A luce
el trabajo.
I.ustrar pnprl.
Machacar o majar en hierro
frio.
To
dash away
He
enjoys the fruits of his labor.
to sport.
To hot-press paper.
To hammer cold iron
to labor in
vain.
quien madruga, Dios
le
ayuda.
God
helps those
selves.
who
help
them-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
150
Sol que
mucho madruga, poco
dura.
Premature things have
little
endur-
ance.
maduran
su tiempo
las uvas.
Mamar
To misspend life.
To pretend ignorance,
el
tiempo.
dedo.
el
there
a time for everything.
is
Malograr
in their season
Grapes ripen
or difficulty
understanding what is said.

be bright, quick, not easily de-
in
No mamar
el
To
dedo.
ceived.
mama
Oveja duenda
a su madre y a
manners ensure kindly
Courteous
estimation.
la ajena.
Mamarlo en
To imbibe something
la leche.
in one's
in-
fancy.
Lo que en
la
leche se
mama, en
la
Habits acquired in childhood
mortaja se derrama.
Manchar
Manchar
till
papel.
el
alma, 6 la conciencia.
To
To
last
death.
much to little purpose.

one's soul with crime ; to be
write
soil
guilty.
Mandar a coces.
Mandar a baqueta.
Mandar a alguno a punta
pies,
6 a
To command harshly.
To command imperiously.
To have a complete ascendency
or
control over one.
zapatazos.
Barco que mandan muchos pilotos

pronto va a pique.
Manda
To
ship with
many
to go to the
captains is sure
too many
;
bottom
cooks spoil the broth.

potros y da pocos.
promise much, and perform but
little.
Manda
y descuida, no se hara cosa
Give your orders, but see that they

are obeyed.
ninguna.
Mandar
En
casa de mujer rica ella
manda
have made to order.
Riches make
women
arrogant.
ella grita.
En
To
hacer.
casa del mezquino mas

mujer que el marido.
la
Manifestar
la herida.
Navio que maniobra bien.

Mantenerse firme.
Mantenerse en lo dicho.
Mantenerse a
la
mar.
Mantener su palabra.
Mantener campo.
manda
In the house of a miser, the wife

should rule the roost.
To probe
a wound.
ship that
works
freely (nau.).
To hold one's ground.

To abide by.
To keep to the sea.
To keep one's word.
To fight a duel.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Marcar una
To
vela.
151
set sail (nau.).
La cosa marcha.
The
Marear, zamponear 6 emprenar la
To be
affair is
making progress.
tiresome and prolix in gos-
siping.
gala.
Marear
To trim the sails (nau.).

To be Vexed at not obtaining a thing
las velas.
Mascar retama.
that
is
in another's hands.
To kill one with questions.

To be very angry with another;
Matar a uno a preguntas.

Estar a matar con alguno.
at
swords' points.
Matar de un golpe.
To fight.
To be at drawn daggers.
To knock on the head.
Matalas callando.
By
Matarse con alguno.

Matarse con otro.
silence,
crafty
or
underhand
means, he obtains his ends.
galgo a la jiebre mata.
la larga el
Patience and perseverance conquer

difficulties.
To
Matar con cuchillo de palo.
distress
a person with slow per-
sistence.
Porfia
mata
Constancy overcomes
la caza.
difficulties.
Quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere.
To be saddle-galled (a horse).
To break one's heart.
To make great efforts for a thing.
To put out the light.
He who kills with the sword, dies by
El mata
He
Matarse un caballo.
Matar d pesadumbres.
Matarse por alguna cosa.
Matar
la luz.
the sword.
la gallina
que pone
el
huevo
de oro.
No mata
la
carga,
sino
la
sobre
Que me maten
si
no
es verdad
Cuidados ajenos matan
al
rabia
asno.
lays
the
be hanged if it is not true

Other people's burdens break the
!
mat6
He
la perra.
cuerdos, y no
me den
vida
necios.
Matad vacas y
carneros,
cornado de bofes.
dadme un
back.
wreaked
first
Matenme
that
I'll
ass's
De
the goose
that kills.
carga.
;
It
kills
golden eggs.
is not the load, but the overload,
his
ill
humor on
the
available person, or thing.
Rather death from sensible people,

than life from fools.
Slaughter your cattle,
have
my
that
tid-bits.
Mat.ir
el
polvo.
To
lay the dust
Todos
la
matamos.
We
are
by
all guilty.
sprinkling.
may
SPANISH IDIOMS.
152
To be
Matarse de hambre.
so miserly as to deny one's
self necessaries.
El hijo de
la
The
gata ratones mata.
cat's
son
is
sure to
rats
kill
(like parent, like child).
vueltas de robarle, le mataron.
Mas
rnat6 la cena que sano Avicena.
Matar
el
kill
toads
dustry)
i
Dios mediante
God
no mediara su respeto
Medir d dedos.
Medir por un rasero.
Medir
Medir
Medir
said of
it
in-
not for respect for him
or
measure to everything.
To contend ; to compete.
To
armas.
las
trifle
To examine very closely.

To apply the same standard
lanzas.
Con la vara que
to
willing
Were
(/.<?.,
workmen who pretend
idle
Si
robbed him.
Suppers have killed more than Avicenas ever cured.
To
sapo.
killed as well as
They
midas, seras medido.
fight.
With the measure that ye mete,

shall be measured to you again.
To
sus fuerzas.
it
calculate one's resources.
Labrador de capa negra, poco medra.
A farmer who
De
finery, never prospers.

Let us have patience, and hope for
hora a hora Dios mejora.
fond of luxury, or
is
God's help.
Mellar
la
To wound one's honor or reputation.

To frequent the streets.
To hasten the execution of anything
honra.
Menear 6 correr el tac6n.

Menear los pulgares.
to turn over a
Menear
Menear
Menear
las
manos.
las
munecas.
Menea
por
tocar, d otro el bulto.
la cola el can,
el
no por
ti,
sino
se
pan.
ha de mentar
The dog wags
his
tail,
not for love of
you, but for what you

To stir about nimbly.
Menear las tabas.

la marea mengua.
No
at cards.
To fight or, to
expertly.
To work rapidly to labor hard.
To threaten chastisement.
To strike a person.
el zarzo.
Menear, 6
hand
work
The
la
soga en casa
del ahorcado.
will give
him.
tide ebbs.
Do
not talk of ropes in the house of

avoid
a man who was hanged
;
painful topics of conversation.
Mentir sin suelo.
To
Miente mas que departe.
His
lie
impudently.
lies
outnumber
his words.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
He
Miente mas que da por Dios.
153
more
tells
than he gives
lies
pence to the poor.

Mentira gorda.
Mentir por la barba, 6 por
de la barba.
A
la
mitad
luengas vias, luengas mentiras.

dejara mentir.
gross falsehood.
To
lie
boldly, impudently.
Travellers' tales.
No me
To
call
upon another
what one
Quien siempre miente nunca engafia.
Liars are not believed, even
they
tell
when
the truth.
Para mentir, y comer pescado, es

menester mucho cuidado.
In lying and in eating
No
To be
merece descalzarle.
as witness to
says.
fish
one must
exercise care.
utterly unworthy,
even to untie
the shoe-strings of another.
He
merecido a mi hermano aquella
am
Merecer alguna cosa

la
indebted to
my
brother for
that honor.
honra.
la
pena
6 valer
To be worth
while.
pena.
Merecer
To
estatua.
merit a statue
praise)
Meter
el
montante.
Meterse en vidas ajenas
6 en oficio
(expression
of
To meddle
To meddle
in a quarrel.
in other people's affairs
to gossip.
ajeno.
To meddle
Meterse en docena.
in the
affairs
of one's
superiors.
Meterse en
la renta del
To meddle
excusado.
in other people's busi-
ness.
Meterse a dar su voto.

Meterse en medio, 6 de por medio.
Meter baza.
Meter su cuchara.
Meterse en banasta
meter
el
To meddle in other people's affairs.

To interfere.
To interfere in a conversation.
To interfere inopportunely.
To meddle to interfere.
;
bast6n.
To
Meterse en camisa de once varas.
interfere in other people's busi-
ness.
Meter en cuezo.
Meterse en
le
va ni
lo
que no
le
toca, 6
no
To
To
intrude.
intrude impertinently.
le viene.
Meterse donde no
le
Meterse en honduras.
llaman a uno.
To obtrude one's self.

To meddle ignorantly where
sequences may be grave.
the con-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
154
No
Not
meterse en dibujos.
to
affairs
Entre padres y hermanos, no metas

tus manos.
Meter
mete a V. en
le
libros
de
dedos.
los
Avoid meddling
in family quarrels.
What
in everything.
are you interfering with ? that
does not concern you.
caballerias ?
Meterse en medio, 6 de por medio.
Meter
other people's
in
to relate simply.
To meddle
hocico en todo.
el
<:Quien
meddle
;
To mediate between two persons.

To extract a secret cunningly
;
to
Meterse en todo.
pump a person.
To pull the wool over one's eyes.
To be an intruder ; to be a jack-of-
Meterse en enredos.
To become
Meter
dedos por
los
los ojos.
all-trades.
involved in intrigues, or
perplexities.
Meter
To sow
zizana.
discord; to breed disturb-
ance.
To
To
To
Meterse en barajas.
Meterse en un berengenal.
Meter en
la
danza.
seek a quarrel.'
involve one's self in difficulties.
involve another in an
affair,
or in
a dispute.
Meterse de hoz, y de coz.

Meter en mal.
Meter la nariz en todas partes.
Meter a uno en un zapato, 6 en un
Meterle a uno por el aro 6
Meter en una prensa.
Meter a uno en cintura.

Meter a alguno donde no
le
arillo.
de
el sol.
Meterse soldado.
mano
a la espada.
a hierro
a saco
en
fruta
affair.
put him to
his trumps.
pafio.
Meter
Meter
Meter
Meter
To go headlong into an
To make mischief.
To be a busybody.
To corner a person to
frio.
6 a sacomano.
la huerta,
de
Meter a
y no dar de
la
To decoy any one.

To drive one into a corner.
To keep one in subjection.
To put one in prison.
To become a soldier.
To draw the sword.
To put to the sword.
To pillage.
To offer a price, but fail to give
it.
ella.
la pella
a alguno, 6 traerle
To
ridicule or
annoy a person.
a la pella.
Meter broma.
Meter la cabeza en
el
puchero.
To be verbose.
To equivocate
to
opinion obstinately.
maintain
an
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Meter
Meter
ripio.
en
cabras
las
el
corral
To mix articles of various qualities.

To intimidate a person to cut him
;
short in argument.
alguno.
Meti
en mi
gallo
hijo
155
cillero, hizose
mi
received a pensioner
y mi heredero.
my
into
who ended by usurping
house,
possession.
Meter en
la
To
To
cabeza.
Meter
la pala.
Meti6
los ge'neros
persuade a person to do a thing.

deceive a person; to deceive
cleverly.
Meter 6 hincar
por
He
alto.
To
la una.
smuggled the goods.

overcharge ; to ask an exorbitant
price.
To
To
Meterse d sabio.
Meter
No
fagina.
Not
dejar meter baza.

la huerta.
Meter en
No saber donde meterse.

Meter en una calza.
Meterse en un atascadero.
Meterse en un brete.
Meter a barato.
Meter a voces.
Meter
affect learning
talk
priesa.
much and
and knowledge.
at random.
to allow another to put in a
word.
To make a false pretence of help.

To lose one's presence of mind.
To put one on his mettle.
To get into a difficulty.
To get into a scrape.
To interrupt another noisily.
To bewilder by bluster; to make
much ado about nothing.
To urge to hasten.
To destroy or devastate a country.
To have a share in a business to
;
Meter a barato la tierra, 6

Meter su media pala.
el pais.
help toward the attainment of a

thing.
To
Meter fuego.
hurry or hasten
to cheer
up
to encourage.
Meter en
To excite to incite to encourage.

To stake money upon a game.
To assume to be a gentleman.
To try to find out what cannot be
calor.
Meterse en
el
juego.
Meterse a caballero.
Meterse en trinidades.
known.
Meter
la
mar en un pozo.
Meter bulla.
Meter a bulla.
Meterlo d
bulla.
No me meto
en nada.
Meter 6 poner piernas
To attempt the impossible.

To make a noise.
To confuse evidence in a lawsuit.
To carry off the matter with a joke.
I
al caballo.
have nothing to do with
To
ride at full speed.
that.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
156
Meter agujas y sacar rejas.

Meter broza, 6 borra, 6 ripios.
Meter la mano en alguna cosa.
Meterse en
Meter
el
agua.
la letra.
Meterse en aventuras.
Meterse con alguno.

Meter prendas.
Meter por los ojos.
Meter el pi6.
Meterse hasta
las trencas.
Meterse hasta
las trencas
To give a sprat to catch a salmon.

To fill in with odds and ends to pad.
To undertake something.
To go into the water.
To write very closely.
To have adventures.
To associate one's self with a person.
To take part in any business.
To persuade one to buy.
To enter a business.
To stick fast in the mud.
To be deeply involved in an affair.
en un ne-
gocio.
Quien en
la plaza
d labrar se mete,
muchos adestradores tiene.

Mete la mano en tu.seno, no
hado ajeno.
diras
No
meterse en teologias.
Meterse en si mismo.
He who
places himself before the
public is liable to criticism.

Self-examination prevents fault-finding.
Not
to involve one's self in subtilties.
To
revolve in the
mind
to follow
own
one's
Meterse, ponerse 6 entrar en cura.
opinion.
To subject one's self to treatment
for a chronic disease.
Meter en cuenta.
To add more reasons
Meter en labor
To
To
to those already
given.
la tierra.
Meter 6 poner en
pretina.
bring land under cultivation.

crush insolence ; to force one to
the performance of duty.
Meter
el
To be
coraz6n.
very demonstrative in one's
affection.
Meter paz.
To
To
Meter en freno.
Meterse en un cenagal.
To restrain a person.
To be engaged in an
Meter mientes.
consider.
mediate, or
make peace between
people.
unpleasant
affair.
To
Meter en camino.
bring one to reason
to put
one
in the right way.
Meter
las
manos hasta
alguna cosa.
Meter
las ceras.
Meter en escrupulos.
los
codos en
To
devote one's
self earnestly to
an
affair.
To fill the combs with honey (bees)

To rouse the scruples of another.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
157
Meter a una persona en alguna cosa.
To
Meter la mano en su pecho.

Meter mano a alguna cosa.
Mezclar burlas con veras.
To consider.
To catch to grasp.
To tell truths in a jesting way.
To look askance.
To look askance at any one.
To look askance to regard disdain-
induce a person to undertake
something.
Mirar de reojo.
Mirar de rabo de
ojo.
Mirar de lado, 6 medio lado.
fully
To
To
To
Mirar de capa.
Mirar sobre el hombro.
Mirar de zaino, 6 a
lo zaino.
to dissemble
by a look.
look contemptuously or angrily.

cast a contemptuous look.
look sidelong
to cast insidious
glances.
Mirar de
To
squint; to look suspiciously at

another.
traves.
Mirar a alguno de arriba abajo con
To
down upon another
look
with
scorn.
desprecio.
To cast an evil eye on one.

To stare to gaze steadfastly.
To browbeat.
To look threateningly at one
Mirar a uno con malos ojos.
Mirar de hito en
hito.
Mirar aspera y orgullosamente.

Mirarse unos a otros.
an-
other.
Mirarse los pies.

El amor mira con unos anteojos que
hacen parecer oro al cobre, a la
pobreza riqueza, y a
las
laganas
into one's failings.
Love wears spectacles through

which copper looks like gold, rags
like rich apparel, and motes in
the eyes like pearls.
perlas.
To pry into other people's

To examine superficially.
To be inattentive.
Mirar por brujula.

Mirar por encima.
Mirar
las telaranas.
Mirar
a,
Sin
To examine
6 pensar en,
mirar,
reparar
las
musaranas.
6 tropezar
en
Not
to
secrets.
be paying attention.
Regardless, without consideration.
barras.
Mirais lo que bebo, y no la sed que

tengo.
la
No
la
To be
To be
To be
sombra.
cara de una persona.

Mirarse las unas.
Mira para
que has nacido

Quien adelante no mira, atras
i
queda.
cavil at
my success,
my labor.
but are un-
mindful of
Mirarse a
mirar
You
lo
conceited.
very angry with a person.

idle
Stop that
se
He who
left
to play at cards.
do
that
does not press forward
behind.
is
SPANISH IDIOMS.
158
Mirar donde se ponen

i
Mirad
To
los pies.
los oficios
que
mudan
las
costumbres.
Mirar 6 ver
los toros
pick one's way.

for honors change man-
Take heed
ners.
desde talan-
To
enjoy a sight without exposing
quera, 6 desde el balc6n.

Mirar por el virote.
one's self to danger.

To mind one's own affairs.
Mirar por uno.

Mirarse en alguno.
To
To
Mire a quien
se lo cuenta.
take care of one.
take loving care of another.

You tell it to one who knows better
than yourself.
Antes que te ates, mira que desates.

Mira que ates que desates.
Look
before you leap.

tie so that you can
See that you

untie.
Mirarse en
ello.
Mirarse en ese espejo.

Mirarse en uno como un espejo.
Mirar a
la cara a alguno.
Mirarse a los pies.
Duena que mucho mira, poco hila.

Mira como hablas, 6 lo que hablas,
6 con quien hablas.
Mira bien lo que escribas, y conserva
lo
que
te escriban.
To
To
To
reflect seriously.
take example from one.
hold a person in great love and

esteem.
To be careful to please a person.

To acknowledge one's own faults.
One who gazes much spins but little.
Be
careful
whom
what you
say,
or with
you speak.
Avoid writing a
burn one.
letter,
Mojar
la p61vora.
To
Mojar
la oreja.
To have conquered
and never
appease the rage of an angry
person.
or defeated a
person.
Moler a
To
azotes.
Agua pasada no muele
rnolino.
lash
to whip.
Water which has passed
will
not turn
the mill.
Mondar los huesos.

Manos duchas mondan
To
huevos, que
no largos dedos.
Montar en cuidado.
Montar, 6
calar, 6 dar cuerda a un
pick bones clean.
Practice
makes
perfect.
To wind a watch or clock.
reloj.
Montar en
Montar un
No
pelo.
rifle.
montar, 6 no importar una paja.

la brecha.
Montar
To mount an animal bareback.

To cock a rifle.
To be of no use or consequence.
To storm the breach (mil.).
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Montar
Montar
159
To mount guard (mil.).

To mount guard in the
la guardia.
la trinchera.
trenches
(mil.).
Montar un navio.
Montar el cabo ; 6 doblar el cabo.
Montar el tim6n.
Mi comadre la andadora, si no en
To take command of a ship

To double a cape (nau.).
To hang the rudder (nau.).
My
su casa, en todas las otras mora.

Si
no puedes morder, no ensenes
co-godmother, or gossip,
is
gad-about.
los
dientes.
Morderse
(nau.) .
you cannot
If
your
To
la lengua.
do not /show
bite,
teeth.
refrain
from saying what one
is
tempted to say.
To be revengefully angry.
Morderse los dedos.

No morderse los labios.
To
speak one's mind frankly and
openly.
Morder en un
confite
con
To be hand and
otro.
intimate
me mordi6 el sapo,
me
hinch6 el papo.
gano
Antano
y ho-
te
Your proposition
muerda.
Last year a toad bit me, and this

year my chin swelled (to attribute a present evil to a remote
cause)
Esa
glove with any one
familiar.
is
declined
your
intentions understood.
Morder
Morder
To bite the dust.

To become impatient under
la tierra.
el freno.
straint
to take the bit
re-
between
one's teeth.
Dos potros
un can, bien
le
mor-
Two
are stronger than one.
deran.
El
con
perro
rabia,
su
amo
muerde.
A mad
dog
will bite
even
his
mas-
ter.
To
To
Morir vestido.
Morir por alguno.
die a sudden and violent death.
be
exceedingly fond
of
any
one.
Morirse por sus pedazos.

Morir de pesadumbre ; 6 morirse de
To love very fondly.

To be broken-hearted.
tristeza.
El que por su gusto muere, hasta la
muerte
Muert6
se
le
sabe.
el perro,
acab6
muerta
la rabia.
He who
enjoys
la rabia,
Remove
dies for his pleasure surely

it.
the cause, and the evil will
disappear.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
160
El deudor no muera, que

en pi se queda.
la
deuda
The debt
not hopeless so long as
is
the debtor
Morir de sed, 6 de frio.

Morir, perecer 6 rabiar de hambre.
To
To
Morir para el mundo.

Morirse, 6 ciscarse de miedo.
To
To
No
The
lives.
perish with
be
or with cold.
thirst,
very
suffering
much from
hunger.
se muere la hoja del arbol sin la

voluntad del Senor.
<:De que muri6 mi padre? de acha-
retire
leaf falls only
God
Death
que.
from the world.
die of fear.
from the tree as
permits.
is
certain,
and need cause no
surprise.
Morir en
la
To
demanda.
maintain one's rights to the
last
extremity.
Uno muere de
y otro se
atafea,
la
What
is
one man's meat
is
another
man's poison.
desea.
Mosquear, 6 palmear
Mostrar la una.
To punish to flog.
To show one's faults
las espaldas.
show the
to
cloven foot.
Mostrar
To
las unas.
be inexorable, or
difficult
of per-
when
angry,
suasion.
Mostrar
el
To show
estuche.
Mostrar
las suelas
Mostrar dientes a
Mostrar
de
los zapatos.
To run away to take to one's heels.

To oppose or resist another.
To make others respect and fear us.
To put difficulties in the way of un;
los dientes.
los colmillos.
Mostrar la horca antes que
one's teeth
a dog.
like
el lugar.
dertaking a thing.
Mustrame
marido
tu mujer, decirte he
se
vientos.
muda, Dios
le
Show me your
ayuda.
cielo,
6 de
and
I will tell
helps
Mudar
wife,
you what sort of husband she has.

To change with every changing wind ;
to be fickle.
God assists him who reforms God
tien.
Moverse a todos
Quien
que
him who helps
To change
cielo.
the
air,
himself.
the
roof,
the
ceiling.
Mudarsele
el cielo
3.
To become
uno.
Amigo de buen tiempo mudard con
the wind.
el viento.
Mudar
aires,
6 de
Al viejo mudale
pellejo.
sad or worried.
fair-weather friend changes with
To change
aires.
el aire
y darte ha
el
It
is
climate.
dangerous for old persons to
change
their climate.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Mudarse a cualquier
Mudarse el aire.
Mudar
161
To be changeable.
To change one's luck.
To change one's customs and man-
aire.
el pellejo.
ners.
Mudar bisiesto, 6 de bisiesto.

Mudara el lobo los dientes, y no
las
To change one's course.

A wolf may change his
teeth, but
not his nature.
mientes.
El hijo borde y
la
mula cada dia
se
Uneducated people are inconstant
mudan.
in acts or aims.
Mudar la guardia.
Mudar de semblante,
6 de color.
To relieve
To show
guard.
a change of feelings in
one's face.
Mudar 6 tomar
To
estado.
change one's condition
become a
(i.e.,
to
priest; or to be mar-
ried).
Nacer de cabeza.
With a conceited man, change the

subject and show his ignorance.
To be born with a wooden spoon in
Nacer de
To
Al bobo, mudale
el fuego.
one's mouth.
pies.
be born with a
silver
spoon
in
one's mouth.
Nacer en buena 6 en mala hora.
To
El poeta nace, y
el
orador se hace.
be a lucky or unlucky person.

is born as such ; an orator
poet
becomes such.
hombre venturero
la
hija
nace
The lucky man has a daughter
Nacer en algun dia.

Aqui me nacieron los dientes.
Quien naci6 para ahorcado no morira
ahogado.
con quien naces, sino con quien
No
paces.
Desnudo
for
his first-born.
primero.
To
escape from
peril.
was born and brought up here.

He who is born to be hanged will
never be drowned.
I
Association
is
stronger than blood-
relationship.
naci,
desnudo
me
hallo, ni
Contented, unambitious indifference.
pierdo, ni gano.
Al sol que nace.

Hijo envidador no nazca en casa.
To
El arroz, el pez, y el pepino nacen

en agua, y mueren en vino.
Rice,
Se
me nadan
Nadar
los pies
sin calabazas.
en
los zapatos.
flatter
Gambling
the rising sun.

is a great evil.
fish,
and
cucumber require
wine for their good digestion.
My
Not
shoes are quite too loose.

to need the help or support of
others.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
162
Nadar, nadar, y a
To
la orilla ahogar.
El mal ano entra nadando.
Una
conciencia culpable no necesita
A
A
fail when
very near success ; to
drown near land.
bad season begins with much rain.
guilty conscience needs no ac-
cuser.
fiscal.
Taberna
vieja
no necesita rama.
tavern of established reputation
needs no
Quien todo
lo niega,
todo
lo confiesa.
Too much
sign.
denial amounts to con-
fession.
Negar una cosa de piano.

Negar los oidos.
Negar uno su propria voluntad.
En nombrando al ruin de Roma,
luego asoma.
Navegar de frente.
al
El hierro obedece,
En
to another.
and he
devil,
will
ap-
To sail abreast (nau.).

To sail by the log (nau.).
To back and fill (nau.)
To act as circumstances require.
la sondalesa.
tiempo.
Obra con gran
Talk of the
pear.
Navegar en sonda por

Navegar con la marea.
Obedecer
To deny a thing flatly.

To refuse a hearing.
To give up one's own will
el
Iron bends, steel does not.

acts with great circumspection.
acero no.
He
pulso.
chica hora Dios obra.
God's power
is
not limited to tim2
or place.
Quien obra mal, para si hard.

Obrar conforme a derecho.
Obrar en derecho de su dedo, 6 de
aire.
Ofrecer una cosa con
la
boca chica.
Ofrecer alguna cosa de 6 por cumplimiento.

i
Oye
Oigase
Oiga
ti
!
j
will
ing that
!
will
it
be refused.
do you hear
!
attention
(Exclamations of surprise.)
Hear hear
A word with you
justicia.
own
out intending fulfilment.

a complimentary offer, hop-
Silence
palabras
Oir campanadas, y no saber donde.

Nos oiran, 6 nos han de oir los sordos
Oir en
ruin.
To make
I say
oigamonos
Oigan
Oye
Oye
Oigame V. dos
!
Oiga V.
own
To take an observation (nau.).

To be irritable, impetuous.
To make a complimentary offer, with-
la altura.
Ofenderse del
their
act according to law.

act according to one's
and pleasure.
sus narices.
Observar
The wicked work
To
To
To
hear without understanding.
We
are determined to speak plainly.

hear a cause, as judge.
To
SPANISH IDIOMS.
j
Dios
lo oiga,
el
pecado sea sordo
163
May God listen, and the

deaf
May it succeed
!
For
misa y dar cebada nunca se
oir
The
al gallo cantar,
y no sup6 en que
haber oido
fulfilment of duty
To make
can never be
a great outcry about what
one does not understand.
muladar.
No
be
superfluous.
perdio Jornada.
Oy6
devil
la
To be ignorant, or
common things.
campana.
Quien no oye mas que una campana, no oye mas que un sonido.
Oler la casa a hombre.
unobservant, of
Never judge a cause before hearing

both
A man
sides.
should be master in his
own
house.
Cada cuba huele
al
vino que tiene.
The cask
holds
known by
Oler A chamusquina.
To come
No
It
of the
smells
liquor
a man's character
it
may be
his actions.
from hot words to hard
blows.
huele bien alguna cosa.

Oler a perdices.
Hulele el pescuezo a canamo.

Oler a soga.
Oler a petardo.
Oler
el
Con
la
To
To
To
d mi la bolsa, y hidate a
have a premonition of
smells of heresy.
Give
boca.
savors of the halter.
deserve to be hanged.
savor of imposition or fraud.
He
hereje.
Huelame
ti
The neck
poste.
Huele a
a suspicious affair.
of loss (said of an enteror
prise
game).
is
It smells
me my pleasures, and
ill.
let
repu-
tation go.
las glorias se
olvidan las
me-
The
fortunate sometimes have short
memories.
morias.
Olvidar la injuria es la venganza.
To
Orientar una vela.
venge.
To trim a
Navio bien orientado a
la bolina.
forget a
wrong
is
the
best re-
sail (nau.) .
close-hauled ship, or by the wind
(nau.).
Esto se origina de
tal cosa.
This comes from
Otorgar de cabeza.
To
Amor con amor
Love repays
that.
give a nod of approbation or
assent.
Pagar
se paga.
el afecto.
Pagar en buena moneda.
To
To
love.
return affection.
give satisfaction.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
164
Pagar a uno en
la
misma raoneda.
To pay
man
in his
revenge one's
que debes, sabras
lo
Paga
,lo
que
tienes.
Pagar de contado.
Pagar un
la
Pagar
beneficio.
peonada.
Pagarse.
Pagarse de alguno.
Bien con bien se paga.
los azotes al verdugo.
Pagar
own
pagar de mi dinero.
el
Pagar
poso.
to
Pay what you owe, and you

know what you possess.
will
To pay promptly.
To return a favor.
To give like for like.
To be pleased with one's self.
To take a liking to a person.
One good turn deserves another.
To return good for evil to furnish
;
weapons against one's
coin
self.
guarantee
To
self.
that.
give an entertainment on enter-
ing an office.
Bravo de mal pagar.
Haughty
Pagar un
To
To
To
To
delito.
doble.
Pagar
la
Pagar
el palo.
Pagar
la farda.
Pagan a
el pellejo.
las
veces justos por peca-
dores.
Pagase el senor del chisme mas no

del chismoso.
la visita.
Pagar
Pagar a tanto por cabeza.

Palpar
la ropa.
Papenle duelos.
be pleased.
fault.
receive unmerited punishment.

gain nothing but trouble from
affair.
To pay the forfeit of one's life.

The just sometimes suffer for
the
unjust.
People
like the gossip,
but not the
gossiper.
To return a visit.
To pay so much per head.
To be confused, irresolute,
plexed
Papar moscas, 6 viento.
double punishment.
suffer
an
Pagar con
difficult to
suffer for
to
per-
be near death.
To keep
the mouth open

to gape.
Think of the sorrows, and be merci;
ful.
without delay.
Sin parar.
Instantly
Parar en mal, en tragedia.

Parar la consideracion.
To end ill to have a fatal issue.

To take into consideration.
To be uneasy.
To end this way or that.
To avoid an injury.
No
poder parar.
Ir a parar.
Parar
el golpe.
En que
pararan estas misas ?

Parar de tenaz6n.
What
To
will
be the
result of this ?
stop a horse short in his course.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
me parece argado sobre argado,

y no miel sobre hojuelas.
Un asno cubierto de oro parece
mejor que un caballo enalbardado.
An
No
To
Esto
al
is
tangle
honey upon
ass with
a better
desden, parecen bien.
Al parecer.
For el bien parecer.
Parece que
and not
golden furniture makes

a horse with
figure than
To
to
all
appearance.
save appearances.
My sisters
trampa.
make a
charming.
Seemingly
se parecen.
lo quiso la
tangle,
fritters.
Simple, unaffected manners
woman
Mis hermanas
upon
a pack-saddle.
have an elegant appearance.
parecer saco de paja.
Las damas
This
165
resemble each other.
seems the deuce would have
It
it
so.
Quien a los suyos se parece, honra

merece 6 bien haya el que a los
;
suyos se parece.
Se parecen los cascos a la
Parecer un duende, andar

duende.
Parece que no enturbia
el
olla.
como un
agua.
Children generally resemble
Children
Parece que
le
le chupan brujas, 6 que

han chupado brujas.
Judas.
Parlar de balde.
Parodiar una batalla.

Partir
mano.
Parti r abierto.
Partir la diferencia.
Partir el c6mico.
Partir el camino.
Partir la tierra.
La mar que
se parte, arroyos se hace.
their
parents
an unpleasant sense)
To appear
suddenly, when not
ex-
pected.
is not
likely to stir the waters
of
one who does not show
(said
He
He seems to be brooding eggs
(irony
directed at an indolent person).
She looks as if she had been nursed
by a witch
thin)
Parece una bruja.

Parecer un Judas, 6 estar hecho un
resemble
(used in
talent)
Parece que esta empollando huevos.
their
parents in character.
She looks
To be
(i.e.,
very pale
and
like
a witch.
in tattered clothes.
To talk nonsense.
To have a sham fight.
To desist to abandon.
To uncover a beehive for a swarm.
To split the difference.
To split a hair to be niggardly.
To meet half way.
;
Adjoining towns or properties.

Great things much subdivided make
very
little
ones.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
166
Oficio de
manos no
le
parten her-
Every one should have
manos.
Partir peras
Ni en
skill in
some-
thing.
con alguno.
en veras con tu amo
burlas, ni
To
treat
Be
respectful towards your superiors.
To
To
To
To
To
To
act without reflection, rashly.
a person familiarly.
partas peras.
Partir
de carrera.
Partirse el alma.
Partir las amarras.
Partir el puno.
Pasar de largo.
Pasar el charco.
Pas6
el rio
la
part the cable (nau.).
gripe (nau.).
pass by a place.
cross the seas.
He swam
a nado.
El ministro ha pasado por todos los
empleos de
die.
The
across the river.
minister has filled
all
the offices
in the Republic.
Republica,
Pase V.
Pass on before me.
Pasarse.
To remove from
one place to an-
other.
El papel se pasa.
Las frutas se pasan.
The paper
Pasar alguna cosa

Pasar en silencio.
To
To
To
recollect something.
To
catch cold.
Pasarle a
blots.
Fruits decay.
al sol.
uno alguna cosa por
la
dry anything in the sun.

take no notice.
cabeza.
Pasarsele a
uno
la cabeza.
me pas6 por
Pasar en bianco, 6 en claro, alguna
Se
alto.
I forgot, or omitted,
To
something.
omit any mention of a thing.
cosa.
Por donde pasa moja.

Pasar un recado.
It
makes impression on the mind.
To send
Los anos se pasan.

Pasarse en el juego de naipes.
word.
Years pass away.
To make more
points in cards than
are needed.
Pasar los ojos, 6 la vista.

Pasar por hombre instruido.
To
To
To
La enfermedad
The
Pasar un
libro.
se pasa.
Esta sentencia pasa por cierta.

Pasar la mano, el peine, el cepillo d
read a book through.

glance over.
pass for an educated man.
disease is contagious.
This
To
generally accepted as certain.

curry an animal.
To
thread a needle.
is
un animal.
Pasar una hebra por
aguja.
el ojo
de una
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Pasarse con poco.
Este vestido puede pasar el verano.
To be
167
satisfied with little.
This dress
will last
through the sum-
mer.
Pasarse sin alguna cosa.
Pasar por una cosa.
Pasar la comida.
To
To
To
Juan pasa a Pedro.

Pedro se contenta con un mediano
John excels
get along without anything.
pass for something.

swallow the food.
Peter
is
Peter.
satisfied
with mediocrity.
pasar.
Pasar
la
moneda.
Pasar
el
dinero.
To
To
El cuarto falso de noche pasa.
pas's false coin.
re-count money.
coin passes in the
false
dark
villany seeks secrecy.
Pasa a
la vuelta,
al frente.
This sum
To
To
Pasar por tamiz.

Pasar por agua los huevos.
is
carried over, or forward.
sift.
boil eggs.
Cuando pasan
Improve
Ajo crudo
One should be
rabanos, comprarlos.
y vino puro pasan el
puerto seguro.
Pasarse de bueno, 6 de corts.
Pasar por todas
las
aduanas.
Quien no se arriesga, no pasa la mar.

Pasar con un abogado, 6 un medico.
all
opportunities.
well fed
in
order
to bear hardships well.
To be over-good or
To undergo a close
over-polite.
examination.
To
study with a lawyer or physi-
cian.
Pasar
To
To
la c61era.
get over one's anger.
Lo pasado pasado.
have experienced a thing.

Let bygones be bygones.
Un buen
Pasar algo por uno.
pasar.
good way of
living.
Pasar por encima.
To have a reputation for prudence.

To ascend from one class to another.
To live with comfort.
To overcome difficulties.
Ya
Pasar por discreto.

Pasar de una clase 4 otra.
Pasarlo
te
comodamente.
he pasado muchas.
have
forgiven
you many things
already.
To
Pasar plaza.
be reputed something which one
is
Pasar
penas del purgatorio.
las
Pasar nor
por
las picas.
picas.
not.
To suffer many hardships.

To undergo many misfortunes and
trials.
Pasar 6 traer la
Pasar
el
mano por
el cerro.
tiempo en cazar moscas.
To
To
cajole
to flatter.
waste time in idleness.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
168
Pas6 6
mam6
el
He
experienced great alarm, or severe misfortune.
tramojo.
Pasar un articulo de comercio.

Pasar la noche en claro
en
6 de claro
To smuggle.
To pass the night
without sleeping.
claro.
Sentencia pasada en cosa juzgada.
sentence from which there
is
no
appeal.
Lo que no pasa por
testamento, pasa
por codicilo.
What cannot be accomplished

regular way,
is
in the
sometimes done by
other means.
Como
lo
How
pasa V. ?
To
To
To
To
Pasar a mejor vida.

Pasar lista.
Pasar muestra 6 revista.
Pasar
la
raya y llegar a lo vedado.
do you do?
die.
call the roll (mil.).
pass muster; to review (mil.).

transgress the line and trespass
on the forbidden.
To pass over to the enemy.

To shoot a person.
To put to the sword to kill.
To put to the sword.
To reeve a rope (nau.).
To shift the royal (nau.).
To be attentive to a lady
Pasarse al enemigo.
Pasar por las armas.
Pasar a cuchillo.
Pasar
al filo
de
la espada.
Pasar un cabo.
Pasar
el
Pasear
virador de combes.
la calle.
in the
street.
Pasear
las calles.
Pasear
la capa.
Vayase V. a pasear
Quien peca y se enmienda a Dios
encomienda.
En
area abierta
el justo
se
salir
con
el
me-
Al agradecido mas de lo pedido.
himself to God.
To
To
ask a bride of her parents.
To
the grateful
ask for much, in the hope of obtaining a little.
he
Abad de
y pedis
Carcuela, comistes la
la cazuela.
Pedir cuentas.
Pedir ctfenta.
Pedir por una cosa.
Opportunity makes the thief.

To ask a woman in marriage.
peca.
Pedir a una mujer por esposa.

Pedir la novia.
Pedir sobrado por
diado.
To loiter about.
To go to walk for amusement.
Go along be off
He who sins and repents, commends
olla,
man
give
more than
asks.
Abbot of Carcuela, you eat up the

pot and ask for the pipkin.
To
To
To
call for
accounts.
a person to account.
set a price on a thing.
call
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Se
beg
ask for the
Pedir gollerias.
Cuando
amigo pide, no
tu
le
hagas
Fraile
que pide por Dios, pide por
pedir de boca.
pidas perdon antes de la acusapidas de grado lo que puedes
to mar por fuerza.

El mentir pide memoria, 6 conviene
al mentiroso ser memorioso.
there be
Charity blesses the giver and the
According to desire.
Never ask pardon before you are
No
pedir peras
Pedirselo d uno
Never stand begging for that which

you have the power to take.
A liar requires a good memory.
To be
Pedir zelos.
Pedir
let
accused.
ci6n.
No
floor.
To wish unreasonably.
When thy friend asks,
receiver.
dos.
No
it
no to-morrow.
esperar.
of you as a favor.
pido a V.
la palabra.
lo
Pido
169
olmo.
al
el cuerpo.
6
justicia,
pedir en juicio.
jealous.
Do not look for pears on elm-trees.

To long anxiously.
To claim to bring an action or
;
claim before the court.
Pedir campo, 6 sacar
al
campo.
Cuando os pedimos, duena os decimos cuando os tenemos, como

;
To challenge.
When peopfe
ous
when
ask, they are courte-
they have received,
indifferent.
queremos.
Pegar un petardo.
Pegar mangas.
To borrow money and not return it.

To violate confidence to deceive.*
To swindle one out of his money.
To intermeddle to intrude.
No
los ojos.
Not
Esa ya no pega.
Pegar una tostada a alguno.
Pegdrsele a uno la silla, 6 el
Pegdrsele a uno las sdbanas.
That
Pegarla de puno.
Pegar una ventosa.
pegar
Pegar
la
Pegarse
boca d
la
la
lengua
pared.
al paladar.
asiento.
to
is
be able to
sleep.
an absurdity.
To play a serious trick upon one.

To make a very long call.
To lie in bed from laziness.
To keep one's sorrow to one's self.
To be speechless with excitement
or fear.
No
peinar canas.
Peinar el estilo.
Las aves peinan
No
las olas.
peinarse para alguno.
Pelarselas.
To
To
be young.
correct or purify one's style.

The birds skim along the waves.
To
To
a proposal of marriage.
execute a thing with vigor and
reject
efficiency.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
170
To be very cunning and astute.

To show great indignation by one's
Pelarse de fino.
Pelarse alguno las barbas.
actions.
Esta agua esta pelando.

Pelean los toros, y mal para los
ramos.
This water
When
very bad
is
it
boils.
the heads of families quarrel,

for
their
depen-
dents.
Pelean los ladrones, y descubrense
When
Pelear hasta con los dientes
con
To
Iadr6n que todos s6n de
el
fall
out,
the
nail,
might and
thefts
to light.
fight tooth
and
main.
todas sus fuerzas.
Piensa
thieves
come
los hurtos.
The
thief judges others
by himself.
su condici6n.
El malo siempre piensa engano.
Donde menos
se
salta
piensa
la
The wicked think all others are so.

When we least expect it, the hare
liebre.
Con
starts.
facilidad se piensa, y se
una empresa, pero con

las mas veces se sale de
De
acomete
dificultad
pienses meter el diente en

seguro, toparas con duro.
Cuando
Sin pensar.
On
An
al cielo.
Perdido por uno, perdido por todo.

De la mano a la boca se pierde la
Short prayers reach heaven.

To wani by a wink.
In for a penny, in for a pound.

many a slip 'twixt the cup
There's
and the
sopa.
lip.
que se ha de perder,
ban de nacer.
Prosperity
bocado pierde.
The sheep
pajarillo
Oveja que
its
breve oraci6n penetra
alillas le
deliberately.
enterprise seems easy till

difficulties are experienced.
Unexpectedly thoughtlessly.
try an impossible thing.
percibir del ojo.
Al
purpose
To
Pensar en lo excusado.
easy to plan, but often difficult
to accomplish.
ella.
caso pensado.
Una
It is
bala,
to
its
sometimes disastrous
is
possessor.
that
bleats
loses
its
gathered morsel.
No
perder de vista.
Perderse de vista.
Not
to lose sight of.
To
excel;
to
be magnificent; to
lose sight of a thing.
Bien perdido y conocido.
good thing
lost is
a good thing
appreciated.
Perder
la
ocasi6n
el lance.
Perder los estribos.

Olla que
mucho
hierve, sabor pierde.
To let an opportunity slip.

To lose patience.
Too much is never good.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Hombre que
An
Un
se pierde de vista.
bien nunca se pierde ; o haz bien
y no mires a quien.
Perder
la ensalada, ni la pierdas,
ni sea aguada.
Quien
lose the thread of the discourse.
After the salad drink
He who
silla.
pay
would
due
it
Quien la fama ha perdido muerto

anda en vida.
He who
Perderse.
To
La manzana podrida
pierde
compania.
Por un Iadr6n pierden ciento en
mes6n.
Perder
su
has an
hanged.
throw one's
ill
self
name
half
is
away.
Evil communications corrupt
good
manners.
el
When
a crime
suffer
To
el respeto.
is committed, many
from suspicion.
lose respect for.
Such an one has
Perder
To
To
la vergiienza.
perder punto.
El buey sin cencerro pirdese presto.

No se pierde mas que la hechura.
No
must
retain his office
attention.
Fulano ha perdido mucho conmigo

desde ent6nces.
No
good wine.
a Sevilla, perdi6 su
fu
astute man.
good deed is never thrown away.
To
la hilaci6n del discurso.
La vez de
171
in
my
shame.
lose all
act with great care
to neglect
nothing.
Carelessness leads to loss.
Save the pieces
You do not
perderas por eso casamiento.
much
fallen
estimation since then.
lose
much by
not doing
this.
Aqui perdi una aguja; aqui
la hal-
Here
a needle, and here I

again (said of those
lost
shall find
lare.
it
who, having
prise,
Quien bueyes ha perdido, cencerros
He who
se le antojan.
Pierde
el
mes
lo suyo,
perdieron los
daron
pero no
el
anillos,
aqui que-
los dedillos.
Abad avariento, por un rodrigo pierde

ciento.
Perder
failed
an enter-
in
persist in it).
has lost his oxen,
is
always
bells.
ano.
Si se
still
la tierra.
Perder con buenas cartas.
hearing
farmer may neglect his land for a
month without utter failure ; but
not for a year.

not grieve for the loss of your
Do
rings, if
you
still
retain your fingers.
Avarice brings about

ishment.
its
own pun-
To be banished.
To lose with a good hand
in obtaining one's right.
to
fail
SPANISH IDIOMS.
172
Lo
bien ganado se pierde y lo malo,

y su dueno.
ello
Well-got wealth may meet disaster,

but ill-got wealth destroys its
possessor.
For
falta
de un clavo se pierde una
For want of a
nail the
shoe was
lost.
herradura.
Perder
To lose one's senses.

He praises himself.
To lose by one's garrulity.
To become mad with rage.
What will you wager?
la chabeta.
No
perder por su pico.

Perder por el pico.
Perder
<[
Que
la
quiere V. perder ?
La marea
El
tramontana.
The
The
pierde.
rio se pierde.
tide
falls.
river loses itself in the
ground,
or sinks.
To
To
Tener que perder.

Perder tiempo.
No
pierde por delgado

gordo y mal hilado.
No
No
perder
sino
por
have
Quality
Not
que
to lose.
is
more important than quan-
tity.
ripio.
se pierde todo lo
much
lose time.
esta
en
All
to miss the least opportunity.
is
not lost that
is
in danger.
peligro.
Perder
el habla.
Perder
la
cabeza.
Ganar 6 perder
capitulo.
Perder terreno.
Perderse en
el bosque.
Perdido por una persona.
Donde
perdiste la capa, ahi la cata.
To be speechless.
To lose one's presence of mind
be at a loss how to act.
To carry or lose one's point.
To lose ground.
To lose one's .way in a wood.
To be very deeply in love.
Faint heart never won fair lady
to
try
again.
Not
Perder cuidado.
Perdonar
el bollo
por
el
coscorr6n.
to fear
Some
to
make
things cost
one's self easy.

are
more than they
worth.
El mejor nadador perece en
el
agua.
Perecer de hambre.
Perecer de
risa.
El que no parece, perece.
The
best swimmers are sometimes

drowned at last.
To
To
perish with hunger.

be convulsed with laughter.
In a division of property, he who

does not appear to advocate his
rights, fails to secure
Sea
como
el
hacha que
sandalo, que perfuma el

le hiere.
Be
them.
like the sandal-tree,
which perit low;
fumes the axe that lays

return
good
for evil.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
le
Pesa
le
pese.
que una vedija de lana.

pesa de que mi hijo enferm6,
sino de la
is
proud of
his merits or talents.
In spite of him.
mnos
No me
No
He
pesa de haber nacido.
Mai que
173
mala mafia que
le
qued6.
Bad
hard to overcome.
To
pesar una paja.
a mere nothing.
habits once contracted are very
It is insignificant,
be of very
little
weight or conse-
quence.
Pesarle a uno la cabeza
mas que
los
He
is
top-heavy, drunk.
pies.
No
El
To
pestanear, 6 sin pestanear.

6 abrasa.
sol pica
alacran esta picado, la
del
Quien
sombra
Picar
muy
le
Picar
el
pion,
espanta.
has been stung by a scorfrightened at
is
its
la berza.
own seeking should
Sarna con gusto, no pica.
Evils of one's
Picar de vara larga.
be borne patiently.
To seek a mean advantage.
Picome una
shadow.
pez.
Picar un dibujo.
Picarla de poeta.
Picar
scorches.
To aim too high.

To bleed to let blood.
To ensnare to deceive.
To prick out a design.
To dabble in poetry.
To be a beginner, little advanced.
alto.
Picar la vena.
look fixedly, without winking.
The sun
He who
arafia,
y ateme una
sa-
Much ado
about nothing.
bana.
Picar la came.
To chop
No
Not
pillar fastidio.
to
the meat.
borrow trouble
to
be
easily
vexed.
Quien
Pillar
pilla, pilla.
un cernicalo, una mona, un

una zorra.
The selfish man grasps

own account.
To become intoxicated.
all
on
his
lobo,
No
es tan bravo el Ie6n
pintan.
Pintarse solo.
Pisar de valentia.
Pisar las cuerdas.
Pisar el sapo.
Pisar las tablas.
Pisar el umbral de la vida.
Pisar
buena 6 mala yerba.
como
lo
The
lion
not so brave as he
is
is
represented.
To excel all others.
To
To
strut.
press the strings of a musical instrument.
To rise late.
To embark to go on board ship.
To be born.
To be good or bad tempered.
;
SPANISH IDIOMS.
174
Plegue d Dios
que
j
plegue d Dios
God
Please
or
God
grant that
Plegue d Dios que oregano sea, y

no se nos vuelva alcarava
!
God
grant that this
we hoped
well as
may
turn out as
How
propagate by
Plantar a uno en la calle.
To
To
throw a person into prison.

took two hours to go from Paris
Que me place
Plantar de rama.
!
Plantar en la carcel.
To
He
Como
As
fuego no puede estar escon-
dido y encerrado, la virtud no

puede dejar de ser conocida.
Poder
remediar, se
se
ha
puede
de aguantar.
Desde que uno puede acordarse.
A lo que puedes solo, no esperes d
No
que pueda 6 pudiere tronar.

se puede repicar, y andar en la
lo
Podran llevar el asno

no forzarle d beber.
Mas puede mana que

;
Si
En
al
agua, pero
casa de Gonzalo
que
What
its
by
own
its
own
light,
excellence.
a chair (in a university)

be cured must be en.
can't
dured.
Within the memory of man.

Never trust to another what you can
yourself.
For whatever may happen.
One cannot
ring
the
A man
can lead
his
chimes, and
ass
(i.e.,
do
to water,
than strength.
Skill is better
fuerza.
To be
el
mas puede
la
If I
unable to get sight of one.

can but lay my hands on him
In Gonzalo's house the gray mare
Poder pasar por las picas de Fldndes.
To
The crow cannot be
ser el cuervo
is
the better horse.
el gallo.
No
puede
but cannot force him to drink.
poderle dar alcance d uno.

puedo poner la mano sobre
gallina
discovered by
virtue
is
walk in the procession

two things at once).
procesi6n.
No
fire is
so
do
otro.
For
slips.
to Versailles.
To occupy
leer cdtedra.
Lo que no
expel a person from the house

to turn him into the street.
Se plantd en Versalles en dos horas

desde Paris.
el
I like it
mas negro
las alas.
que
Poder vender en un buen mercado.
be above criticism.
its
wings
the worst
To be more
blacker than
is
over.
sagacious and
astute
than others.
No
poder hacer carrera con alguno.
Not
to
be able
to bring a person to
reason.
lo que no puede
comer, dalo por su alma.
El abad de bamba,
To make
others
a parade
that
ourselves.
which
of
is
giving
to
useless
to
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
poder hincar
diente a una
el
To be
175
unable to understand a thing.
cosa.
Tu que no puedes,
lleVame a cuestas.
To
ask help from one

more in need.
who
is
him-
self
No
Se
To
poderle dar un alcance.

pudiera fiar oro molido.
be unable to get sight of one.
One might
le
trust
him with untold
gold.
Ninguno puede servir a dos senores.

Mas puede Dios que el Diablo.
No man can serve two masters.

God is more powerful than
devil
the
(used to encourage one in
difficulties).
Si
no puedes lo que quieres, debes

querer lo que puedes.
lo que puedes solo, no esperes a
otro.
La
vina del ruin se
poda en
abril.
you cannot have what you

what you can get.
If
like,
like
Expect not at another's hand what

you can do for yourself.
The
miser's vineyard waits long for
care.
No
To be
poder parar.
He
El no puede contenerse.
No poder tragar a alguno.
Ponerse en
los huesos.
Ponerse flaco 6 gordo.

Ponerse moreno.
Ponerse palido.
Poner
las orejas
Poner a uno
Ponerse
la
coloradas.
ceniza en la frente.
como una
grana.
Poner a uno como una grana.

Ponerse a gesto.
Poner gesto.
Poner a uno
el pie"
sobre
el
pescuezo.
Poner una cosa por tierra.

Quien se pone debajo de la
veces se moja.
grow
fat.
ears.
humiliate by reproaches.
blush up to one's eyes.
put another to the blush.

endeavor to please.
show anger
in one's face.
humiliate one.
in your demands.
have brought him to reason
pacified him.
hoja,
dos
He who seeks refuge

a tree
lose
Poner dos a uno.
thin or
become sunburned.
become pale.
make one blush to his
To enter into a dispute.

To put one's self in the place
To make little of a thing.
Ponerse a razones.
.
abhor any one.
become emaciated.
Be moderate
P6ngase V. en la raz6n.
Lo he puesto en la raz6n.
Ponerse en caso de
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
uneasy.
has no command over himself.
To
is
bet two to one.
or
of ...
from rain under
twice wetted
all.
grasp
all,
SPANISH IDIOMS.
176
Ponerse a cantar y 4 bailar.

Ponerse los zapatos, el sombrero.
Poner por tierra un

Poner en relieve.
edificio.
To
To
To
To
begin to sing and to dance.

put on one's shoes, one's hat.
pull down a building.
carve
in
relief;
describe
to
graphically.
To
To
Ponerse a trabajar.
Poner huevos.
Sobre un huevo pone
la gallina.
lay eggs.
The hen
egg
is
To
To
Poner a uno en estado.

Poner a alguno en zancos.
Poner caro, 6 barato, algun
escrito.
Ponerse a
escribir.
sits, if it
be but upon one
a nest-egg, or a start in
articulo.
life,
needful.
set
one up
in business.
give one a lift toward the

he desires to attain.
To
exaggerate
cheapen, an
end
the value of, or to

article.
To agree on the price.

To post bills or edicts.
To sign.
To put anything in black and white.
To set about, or devote one's self to,
Poner en precio.
Poner cedulones.
Poner su firma.
Poner por
work.
set to
writing.
Poner una carta.

Poner un sello a la
Poner en Espanol,
carta.
Ingle's, etc.
To write a letter.
To seal or stamp a letter.
To translate into Spanish,
English,
etc.
Poner en musica.
Poner en verso.
Poner punto final a una cuesti6n.
Poner a asar.
Poner toda la carne en el asador.
To set to music.
To versify to put in verse.
To put an end to a question.
To roast.
To put all the meat to roast at once
;
to hazard
Ponerle
el
cascabel al gato.
Poner en escena.
Poner en prensa.
Ponerse bien 6 mal con alguno.
Poner a uno como un guante.
To
To
To
To
To
bell the cat.
put (a play) on the stage.

put in print.
succeed or fail
to propitiate.
render one as pliable as a glove
to insult a person.
Poner
al sol, al aire, al fuego.
Poner a almanta.
Poner el freno a un caballo.

Poner por medianero.
all.
To put in the sun, the air,

To plant vines irregularly.
To bridle a horse.
To appoint as mediator.
the
fire.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Ponerse de acuerdo.
Ponerse a
reir.
Ponerse a
llorar.
triste.
Poner de ministro a alguno.

Poner mar de por medio.
Poner de manifiesto, 6 de relieve.
Poner en seco.
Poner carino a alguna cosa.
Ponerse a beber, a jugar.
Poner dinero a
interes.
Poner manos a
la obra.
Ponerse a hacer alguna cosa.

Poner el coraz6n en algo.
Poner la mesa.
Poner a votaci6n.
Ponerse en acuerdo.
Poner una cosa en alguno.
Ponerle a uno una casa.
eso.
pongo en V.
Ponerse frio, 6 caliente.
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
to
set one's self earnestly to
hija.
work.
doubt.
undertake anything.
on a thing.
set one's heart
lay the table.
put to the vote.

agree unanimously.
leave a decision to another.
furnish a house for another.
put in practice.
I leave
lo
Poner en chapines a una

Ponerse en chapines.
gambling.
put out money at interest.
Poner en duda.
Yo
To agree unanimously.
To ridicule to laugh.
To weep over anything.
To cheer up, or to grieve.
To set the arms akimbo.
To appoint a person as minister.
To put the sea between.
To protest to make clear.
To change one's clothes.
To take a fancy to a thing.
To give one's^ self up to drinking,
;
Ponerse alegre, 6
Ponerse en asas.
Poner en
177
it
to you.
To become cold, or warm.

To marry a daughter.
To raise one's self above one's
con-
dition.
Poner delante.
To remind
Nada
Nothing stops him.
se le
pone por delante.
Ponerse en cobro alguna persona.

Poner en cobro alguna cosa.
Poner a raci6n.
Ponerse a
la carga.
Ponerse
el sol
Ponerse
al frente
Poner en
el sol se
efecto.
Poner en lista.
Poner un negocio
alguno.
pone.
de un negocio.
en manos de
to suggest.
To take refuge.
To put a thing in a safe
To put on allowance.
To be ready to receive
place.
cargo (said
of a ship).
The sun sets.
To
To
To
To
be the principal
in a business.
carry out.
place a
put an
name upon a
affair in
list.
charge of another.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
ITS
Poner nombres d uno.

Dia del bodorrio, ponte en completorio.
To
one names.
call
There
is
a proper time for every-
thing.
Poner piernas
To
al caballo.
ride at full speed
to spur one's
horse.
Poner pies en polvorosa.

poner los pies en el suelo.
No
Poner alguna cosa sobre la cabeza.

Poner 6 levantar en, 6 sobre, las
To take to one's heels.

To act quickly, promptly.
To esteem a thing highly.
To praise things to the skies.
nubes.
Poner a uno, 6 alguna cosa, sobre
las
estrellas.
extol
a person or thing to the
stars.
Poner espuelas.
Poner A raya.
Ponerse en pies en
estar en, 6 sobre,
Ponerse hasta
To
la
la dificultad
mano
Ponerse una cosa en
la dificultad.
del amirez.
los cascos.
To
To
To
incite, or
urge on.
restrain.
seize
upon the point where the
difficulty lies.
To adorn one's self profusely.

To work with energy and perseverance.
Poner en su corazon, 6 en
de alguno.
el
coraz6n
To move
or interest a person very
much.
To
Ponerse en lugar de otro.
put one's self in the place of an-
other.
To make a fair copy.

To make a thing clear.
To train a person to a business.
To do something wonderful to
Poner en limpio.
Poner en claro.
Poner en los trotes a uno.

Poner una pica en Flandes.
the river on
To
Poner en pico.
set
fire.
speak of what should be kept
secret.
El
me ha
He
puesto un hierro.
has laid
me
under deep obliga-
tions.
To place one in an honorable post.

To try.
To stop an abuse to put a bound.
To do with all one's might.
Poner en astillero.
Poner uno de su parte.
Poner coto.
Poner uno toda su
Bien puesto.
Poner en plato
fuerza.
Well dressed.
;
6 poner
uno.
Puesto en
el
plato 4
To
afford
one an unexpected oppor-
tunity.
el borrico.
Determined
thing.
to
accomplish
some-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
179
Pus6 en fuego todas sus facultades.
He
Ponerse
To become
serio.
Hidalgo de Guadalajara, lo que pone

a la noche, no cumple a la manana.
Poner en observancia.
Ponerse bien con Dios.
Poner
el grito
en
One who
all his
powers.
serious.
but does not
promises,
perform.
To execute orders punctually.
To make one's peace with God.
To
el cielo.
put forth
cry to heaven
to
complain
bit-
terly.
Poner nombre.
Ponerse en gracia.
Poner a prueba.
Poner complacencia en
Poner los ojos en algo.
algo.
Ponerse a pensar.
Poner bien
los
dedos en
el instru-
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
baptize.
expiate by confession.
put to the proof.
take pleasure in anything.

set one's heart
on a
thing.
set one's self to thinking.
play an instrument well.
mento.
Poner a caballo.
Ponerse bien en un caballo.
Poner los puntos muy altos.
Poner en libertad de alguna obligaci6n.
Poner a
To teach a person to ride.

To be a thoroughly good rider.
To have high aspirations.
To absolve from promise or obligation.
To
costa.
much
devote
time or
money
to
an object.
Barba pone mesa, que no pierna tiesa.

Poner cuero y correas en alguna cosa.
Be
industrious, diligent.
To do something
one's
Se ha puesto
muy
hueco.
He
has
another
for
own expense.
become very vain and
at
osten-
tatious.
Ponerse de
puntillas.
To
persist obstinately in one's opin-
ion.
La
gallina
de mi vecina mas huevos

la
pone que
que la mia.
Poner tacha.
mia, 6 mas gorda esta
Ponerse grave.
Poner pies en pared.
neighbor's hen lays more eggs

than mine ; other people have
better luck than I.
My
To make objections.
To put one's foot down to be ob;
stinate.
Poner tanto hocico.
como un trompo.
mismo que el sol puesto.
Ponerse
Ser
lo
Poner 6 tener en conclici6n.
To pout.
To eat and drink to satiety.
To be worth nothing.
To hazard to expose to danger.
;
SPANISH IDIOMS.
180
Ponerse derecho.
To hazard or endanger anything.

To expose one's self to danger.
To put in peril.
To put one's self in the right
No
stand upright.
Not to allow one's self to be mal-
Poner 6
traer al tablero alguna cosa.
Ponerse en ocasi6n.
Poner en
peligro.
se deja
poner
la albarda.
to
treated.
Ponerse una cosa en dos
To look unpromising.
To wear the breeches
as.
Calzarse, 6 ponerse las bragas.
(said of over-
bearing wives).
To take a whim, a fancy.

To put things topsy-turvy.
To go headlong, neck and
To pawn.
Pone'rsele a uno.
Poner
las cosas pies
con cabeza.
Ponerse los talones en
la
nuca.
Poner en prenda.
Al mozo mal mandado, ponerle
la
mesa y enviarle al recado.

Poner a uno en el extremo de hacer
las
stimulates even
people to diligence.
constrain a person to do some-
idle
To
thing.
algo.
Poner
The hope of reward
heels.
peras a cuatro, a ocho.
To
urge, or
compel a person against
his will.
To find fault.
To make difficulties.
Poner defectos.
Poner
dificultades.
Entre dos muelas
molares
nunca
pongas tus pulgares.

Poner bien 6 mal a uno.
in
family dis-
putes.
Poner miedo a alguno.

Poner a uno una banderilla.
Poner mala voz.
Ponerse como un perro
Beware interference
6 hecho un
To
To
To
To
To
put one in the right or wrong.

alarm.
taunt, ridicule, or vex a person.
discredit or disgrace a person.

get into a violent passion.
perro.
Ponerse furioso.
Poner en
el suelo.
Poner como un trapo.

Poner manos violentas.
Poner de vuelta y media.
To become furious.
To throw down.
To lay violent hands on a clergyman.
To humiliate a person, by word or
action.
Poner peros.
Poner como un Cristo a alguno.
Quien se pone a ello ?
Poner sal a alguno en la mollera.
<;
To
To
find fault
to
make
difficulties.
flog a person severely.

Who dares to do it?
To
punish a person in order to
bring
him
to his senses.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Poner de
patitas
en
la calle.
To
181
expel from the house; to turn

out.
Ponerse en
la calle.
De
quien pone los ojos en el suelo,

no fies tu dinero.
Poner los cinco mandamientos.
Poner a uno los cinco dedos en la
To be ostentatious.
Do not trust one who
not meet
will
your eye.
To
To
lay violent
strike
the
cara.
Poner en aprietos a una persona.

Poner talla.
To
To
Poner a saco
To
hands on one.
a person in the face with
fist.
get another into scrapes.

offer a reward for the apprehen-
sion of a criminal.
6 meter a saco, 6 a
plunder
to loot.
sacomano.
Poner a uno sobre un borrico.
To
threaten
with
public
punish-
ment.
Poner en un palo.
Poner a la sombra.
Poner a uno en
la jaula.
Poner demanda.
To inflict public punishment.

To imprison.
To put a person in jail.
To begin an action at law to sue.
To call as witness.
To make zealous but mistaken op;
Poner por testigo.

Poner a pleito.
position.
Poner centinela.
Poner cerco.
Poner en fuga.
Poner un
Poner
bajel d nado.
las velas
en facha.
Poner
la proa al rumbo.
Ponerse en caza.
To post a sentinel.
To besiege.
To put the enemy to flight.
To launch a ship (nau.).
To lay the yards aback; to
brace
aback (nau.).
To stand on the course (nau.).
To manoeuvre to escape another
vessel (nau.).
Poner
las
Ponerse a
vergas en cruz.
la capa.
To
To
square the yards (nau.).

set the sails of a ship so as to
hold her steadily (nau.).

light of their ene-
Quien a su enemigo popa, a sus manos muere.
Those who make
Estar posseido de mal de rabia.
To
Bien predica quien bien vive.

Preguntarlo a vuestro padre, que vu-
estro abuelo
no
lo sabe.
mies, die at their hands.
have a toothache.
good
To
life is
the best sermon.
ask questions of those

unable to answer.
who
are
SPANISH IDIOMS.
182
por berzas, mi padre
Si preguntais
for a
you are asking
If
un garbanzal.
tiene
my
cabbage,
father has a chick-pea (conto a reply
temptuous retort
is no answer).
Prender muerte.
To
No
prende de ahi el arado.

Prendido 6 preso con alfileres.
That
Prestar paciencia.
Prestar atenci6n.
To bear with patience.

To pay attention.
Primero pediria, limosna que pres-
He
which
get killed.
is not where the difficulty lies.
fastened
Imperfectly
together ;
pinned together.
would rather beg than borrow.
tado.
buey har6n, poco
le
presta
el
aguij6n.
Hombre que presta, sus
barbas mesa.
sluggish ox does not respond to

the goad.
A man who
lends
money must do
it
cautiously.
Quien
presta
al
amigo, amenudo
cobra un enemigo.
El amigo que no presta, y el cuchillo
que no corta, que se pierda poco
importa.
Prevenirsele a uno alguna cosa.
Privarse de juicio.
He who lends to a friend often makes

an enemy.
who
friend
knife
not lend, and a
will
that will
not cut,
may
as
well be lost.
To occur to
To become
one's mind.
insane
one's
to lose
mind.
To
Privarse de raz6n.
Prob6 a
levantarse,
y no pud6.
Me
be distracted with passion.

could not.
He attempted to rise, and

The country agreed
prob6 bien el pais.

Probar ventura, 6 fortuna.
To
vestment
Probar
To annoy
la paciencia.
with me.
try one's fortune

;
an
to risk
in-
to venture upon.
a person, or try his pa-
tience.
Probar
las
To
armas.
test one's dexterity in the use
of
arms.
Probar mal
To
la tierra.
disagree with the health (said of
climate).
Prueba
al
amigo antes que
lo ne-
cesites.
Quien
mnos
procura, alcanza bien.
Prove thy friend e'er thou hast need

of him.
He who
asks fewest favors
received.
It is
is
over-anxious.
Procurar
el
camino.
To open
the
way ;
best
a mistake to be
to facilitate.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Mas produce
el
ano que
el
campo
The crops depend more upon
the
season than the cultivation.
bien labrado.
Prolongarse a
183
To
la costa.
or
coast,
range
shore
along
(nau.).
Prometer este mundo, y el otro.

El escudero de Guadalajara, de lo
que promete a la noche, no hay
nada a
la
To make
great promises.
Readiness to promise does not
ways indicate readiness to
al-
fulfil.
manana.
Pronunciar votos solemnes.
To
Propasar la estima.
Se ha propasado a decirme menti.
ligious order.
To outrun the reckoning (nau.).
He had the audacity to tell me that
take the vows
to enter a re-
I lied.
El hombre propone, y Dios dispone.

Protestar una letra.
Publicar armas.
Purificarse la condici6n.
Man proposes, and God disposes.

To protest a bill of exchange.
To give a public challenge.
To fulfil a promise to discharge an
;
obligation.
Buen coraz6n quebranta mala ven-
Good
courage breaks bad luck.
tura.
el
Quebrar
Quebrarse
To
To
To
To
carazdn.
la
cabeza.
Quebrar amistad.
Quebrar
Quebrar
lanzas.
el
break one's heart.

puzzle one's self.
cut an acquaintance.
quarrel
to dispute
impediments.
To do that which
ojo al diablo.
is
to
best,
remove
most
just,
and reasonable.
La mujer honrada
la
pierna que-
brada, y en casa.
la
The
respectable
at
mala costumbre quebrarle
woman
should keep
home.
la
An
la
Habit
evil habit
must be overcome.
pierna.
Al mal uso quebrarle
la pierna,
is
no excuse
for evil practices.
hueca.
La soga quiebra siempre por
lo
mas
delgado.
The rope always breaks

est point
when two
;
at its
weak-
quarrel, the
Quebrar
la
soga por alguno.
weakest goes to the wall.

Not to perform what one has prom-
Quebrar
la
condici6n, 6
To
ised.
Quebrar
el hilo.
el natural.
soothe or moderate a person's
temper.
To break the thread
to interrupt.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
184
No
sabe quebrar un plato.
She does not know enough to break

a plate ; she does not know a bee
from a broomstick.
At dawn of day at daybreak.

I broke my leg, perhaps for
Al quebrar del alba.
Quebrme
i
el
la cabeza,
Quebrasteme
untas
el
pi, quiza por bien.
casco
me
y ahora
good.
You have broken
my head, and now

my skull
you would salve
La verdad adelgaza y no
quiebra.
The
truth
may
my
run
but
fine,
not
will
break.
No
quiebra delgado, sino gordo y
mal
Mas
hilado.
vale doblarse
Andar de
que quebrarse.
not the fine thread, but the

coarse and badly spun, that breaks.
Better to bend than to break.
It is
To be on
pi6 quebrado.
the decline
to
be
in nar-
row circumstances.
Tantas veces va
que
cantero d la fuente
el
al fin se quiebra.
Quedar sin novedad.

Quedar por alguno.
Quedar con uno.
El negocio no quedara por
The
pitcher that goes often to the

fountain is broken at last.
To be in good health.
To become surety for any one.
To agree, or compound, with any one.
The
1.
business will
not
fail
on
his
account.
Quedar una cosa por hacer.

Quedarse con una cosa.
Queda en
Quedar
limpio
Something remains
limpio.
money
Quedar en hacer una
Quedar bien 6 mal.
los amores,
y quedan
be done.
los
do-
purse
no
left.
To agree
To come
cosa.
or
Vanse
to
To retain something.
The net profit is ...
To have but an empty
to
do anything.
off well or
ill
to succeed
fail.
Love brings sorrow
in its train.
lores.
Quedar por valiente.

Quedar con lucimiento.
To
To
Ahi
I trust
pass for a brave man.
accomplish an undertaking suc-
cessfully.
te
quedan
las Haves.
El que adelante no mira, atras se
quedar por
He who
corta, ni
mal echada.
To
affairs
(my
keys) to you
does not look forward
be sure
queda.
No
my
depend upon you.

to
will
remain behind.
leave no stone unturned in the
effort to
accomplish a purpose.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
El
campo quedo por los Americanos.
Quedar
No
No
el
quedar a uno cera en
Quedar por andar.

tia,
victorious.
left,
notwithstand-
he has
nothing left.
To be even with a person.
To have to walk farther.
quedarse d deber nada.
Quedarse para
have a fortune
ing great expenses.

He has lost his fortune
oido.
el
The Americans were
To
brazo sano a alguno.
185
6 para vestir ima-
To become an
old maid.
genes.
Quedarse a
To remain
la espiga.
till
the last in order to
collect the fragments.
Quedarse en agalla.
Quedar de n6n.
To
To
To
To
To
To
Quedarse en ayunas de alguna cosa.
Not
Quedarle a uno algo en

Quedar en pelota.
el
est6mago.
Quedar inm6vil.
Quedar debajo.
be
reticent.
naked.
strip
be struck motionless.
get the worst of an affair.
be deceived in one's hopes.
be or remain quite alone.

to understand a word of the
matter.
To be inferior.
To lose all one
atras.
Quedarse
Quedarse a espadas.
No quedar titere con
cara,
6 ca-
has in gambling.
destruction.
Complete
beza.
Quedarsele a uno en el tintero.

Quedar, 6 quedarse la dificultad en
To
forget a thing entirely.
The
difficulty
still
remains.
pie.
Quedarse 4 media miel.
To act
To be
Quedarse en descubierto.
Quedarse d oscuras ; a buenas noch-
To be out in the cold.

To be left in the dark
Para tonto, quedarse en casa.
wisely in an
was beginning
es; 6 en bianco.
to lose
left in
Quedarse al s6n de buenas nocnes

6 quedarse alpiste 6 en albis.
To
affair.
deprived of something one
to enjoy.
(lit.
or
to fail to obtain
fig.)
to
be
the lurch.
be disappointed.
Quedarse bailando el pelado

darse tocando tabletas.
Quedarse soplando
darse fresco.
Quedarse asperges.
las
unas
6 que-
To be
6 que-
To
disappointed.
fail
to
be disappointed,
dis-
gusted.
To be
disappointed in one's expecnot to understand at all.
tations
SPANISH IDIOMS.
186
Quedar todos iguales ; 6 dejar a todos
They
are
alike disappointed.
all
iguales.
To be
To be
To be
Quedarse hecho una pieza.

Quedarse helado.
Quedarse
yerto.
astonished, thunderstruck.
astonished, thunderstruck.
petrified with fear or astonish-
ment.
Quedarse
To be
frio.
struck with fear or astonish-
ment.
To be
To be
Quedarse en pulsos.
Quedarse muerto.
dispirited, discouraged.
surprised and grieved by sud-
den news.
Quedar abochornado.
No ir, 6 no quedarse en zaga.
Quien a mi me trasqui!6, las
le quedaron en la mano.
en
Quedarse
la
To
feel mortified.
Not
tijeras
be
el
campo.
No quedar gota de sangre en
To be
me
has kept the
and can do
defeated
battle-field;
el
any one.
inferior to
clipped
scissors,
en
estacada;
to
He who
to
be
to
To be overcome
it
again.
die on
the
killed.
with terror.
cuerpo.
Aun queda
el
The
rabo por desollar.
Quedar por cobarde.

Quedarse con una afrenta en
el
cu-
To
To
not yet over
evil is
is
to
the worst
come.
pass for a coward.
pocket an
insult.
erpo.
To be completely destitute.
To be armed.
To clamor against.
To complain without cause
Quedarse en la calle.
Quedar armado.
Quejarse de.
Quejarse de vicio.
ado about
El galgo y
por
el
gavilan no se quejan
sino porque es su
Low people
to
make
trifles.
follow their low instincts.
la presa,
La casa quemada, acudir con
el
agua.
To come
is
Alegraos albaredos que se
quema
balago.
Quemese
To
when
the house
to be too late.
boast of that which should
be
regretted.
Quema que
Quemarse
el
with water
burned down
rabia.
las cejas.
la casa
y no saiga humo.
It is horribly hot.
To
burn the midnight
much.
If you must
noise.
quarrel,
oil
to study
do so without
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Quemarle a alguno
j
se
Quemadas
To speak against the absent.

May your words be burned
la estatua.
vean
tus palabras
187
(re-
for malice).
Quemarse
sangre; 6 pudrirse
la
la
proach
To be subject to constant vexations.
el
Guardians should be
sangre.
Hacienda de sobrino qumala
quema
el
There
pan.
Como
Como
,1
faithful to their
trust.
fuego, y lleVala el rio.

En la puerta del homo se
is
many a
cup and
slip 'twixt
lip.
asi
me
As I choose ;
As you like.
lo quiero.
V. quisiere.
quieres boca? 6 a pedir de
qu
just as I desire
it.
According to one's wishes.
boca.
Que mas
quiere ?
bien
Quien
quiere, tarde olvida.
Quien quiere a Beltran, bien quiere
;
What more does he want ?

True love never forgets.
Love me, love my dog.
a su can.
He who loves
Quien te quiere, te hara llorar.

Cabeza loca no quiere toca.
Si quieres ser
ti
The
bien servido, sirvete a
Quien todo
Pintar
chasten you.
will
you would be well served, serve
If
mismo.
you
foolish dislike correction.
yourself.
lo quiere,
como
todo
lo pierde.
He who
To
querer.
grasps all, loses all.

color a description to suit one's
self.
Sin querer.
Quien bien quiere, bien obedece.
Unwillingly
With good
undesignedly.
will,
one
can
always
please.
Mas hace
el
que quiere, que
el
que
puede.
Si bien me quieres, tratame cotno
good will is worth more than

power or talent.
If you love me, use me as you will.
sueles.
Que
Si
quiera que no quiera.
quieres empobrecer,
que no has menester.
compra
Whether he likes it or not.

If you would become poor, buy
useless things.
Como mi hijo entre fraile, mas

no me quiera nadie.
,iCual hijo quieres? al nino
lo
que
cuando
crece, y al enfermo mientras ado-
We
like the gratification of
wishes, even
our own
at the cost of another.
Parents love most dearly an infirm

or unfortunate child.
lece.
Quien a su perro quiere matar, rabia

le ha de levantar.
He who
wants his dog killed has
only to say that he
is
mad.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
188
No
quiero perro con cencerro.
Eso se quiere la mona, pinoncitos

mondados.
Cabra coja no quiere siesta.
want no dog with a
ready shelled.
He who has but
study so
El comer y
el rascar
que empezar.
La raz6n no quiere
no quiere mas
el villano
quiere que vala.
Quieres que te siga
el
talent
little
must
its
indulgence.
can? dale
prevail over force.

are
tenacious
of habits, whethPeople
er good or bad.
Would you have
the
dog
follow
you ?
feed him.
Cuando Dios no
quiere, los santos
no pueden.
Mai me quieren mis compadres porles
digo
las
If
God
wills not, the saints cannot.
Unvarnished truth
is
often unwel-
come.
verdades.
El mandar no quiere par.

Eso queremos los de a caballo, que
Too many cooks spoil the broth.

To desire a thing greatly, even though
saiga el toro.
No
her nuts
the harder.
Appetite comes with
pan.
que
much
like
Reason must
fuerza.
Costumbre buena, 6 costumbre mala,
<;
bell.
The monkey would
it
quiere mal quien le hurta

viejo lo que ha de cenar.
le
al
Palabras senales no quieren testigos.
be dangerous.
Old people
are better for not eating
suppers.
Beware of impulsive words before

witnesses.
te quiero,
Aqui
escopeta
buena fama, no
cama.
Si quieres
en
De lo
la
Now
te
el sol
ajeno, lo que quisiere su dueno.
^Para que quiere mas dia de
fiesta?
If
is
the
moment
(for escape).
you desire a good reputation, do

not be idle.
Even small
favors should
fully received.
Having so much,
be grate-
why should he
wish for more?
Quien quiere mula
sin tacha,
andese
a pie\
No
Si quieres engordar,
come con ham-
y bebe a vagar.
Quien peces
requires a steed without a
had better go a-foot.

To prefer to have no dealings with
fault
querer cuentas con otro.
bre,
He who
quiere, mojarse tiene.
If
a person.
you wish to grow
fat,
eat
when
you are hungry, and drink slowly.

He who would catch fish must not
mind a
Quien bien quiere, de lejos ve.
Querer 6 intentar algo por su bella
cara.
wetting.
well-wisher sees from afar.
To
aspire to something which one

does not deserve.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Quien no quiera ver
vaya a
lastimas,
que no
Those who do not wish
to be injured
should not run into danger.
la guerra.
Cuando Dios
189
quiere,
con todos
aires
When God
all
winds bring
may
rain out of a
wills,
rain.
llueve.
Cuando Dios quiere, en sereno llueve.
God
If
pleases,
it
clear sky.
Quien quiere a la col, quiere a

hojas de alrededor.
las
Quien quiere ruido, compre cochino.

Mas quiere mafia que fuerza.
Bien quisto 6 mal quisto.
;
Caballo que vuela, no quiere espuela.
Quien mas
mas
tiene,
quiere.
El que quiere azul celeste, que
le
paneros.
No quiero, no quiero, pero echadmelo

el
would gather the fruit must

care for the plant.
He who loves noise should buy a pig.
Skill is better than strength.
Well
received, generally beloved;

or the contrary.
Do not spur the willing horse.
The more one has, the more he wants.

The best things are the most difficult
of attainment.
cueste.
Reinos y dineros no quieren com-
en
He who
sombrero.
Querer contar
Kingdoms and other
people's fortunes are difficult to manage.

To pretend carelessness when really
anxious.
To
las estrellas.
try to
count the
stars
to
attempt
the impossible.
Ni siquiera quiso escucharle.
He
would not even
Tanto quiso
To
injure
He
would not
el
diablo a sus hijos, que
sac6 los ojos.

quiso hacer la prueba.
listen to
him.
by indulgence.
les
No
For mi dinero, papa
le
If I
quiero.
pay
try the experiment.
for the best, I should
have
the best.
Bien
no
te quiero,
te
bien te quiero, mas
El que quiere probar

vecino, ha de quitar
a
olla
la
la
del
cobertera
uno no
dos
quiere,
no
Quien quiere tomar, convidnele

quien Dios quiere,
Querer atar
would enjoy the hospitality

of his neighbor must be hospit-
Two
cannot quarrel,
choose to do
barajan.
He who
able himself.
la suya.
Cuando
Fair-weather friendships,
doy mi dinero.
las
poner puertas
la
casa
lenguas
al
campo.
es
le
dar.
sube.
querer
He who
Quiera Dios
one does not
would take, must
The lucky
give.
are sure to win.
Trying to stop peoples' tongues is

trying to put gates on an open
plain.
if
so.
God
grant
SPANISH IDIOMS.
190
Cuando
At any time.
quiera.
To
Querer mas.
iQue
Como
that
mean?
Anyway anyhow as you like.

To mean to intend to say.
quiera.
Querer
prefer.
What does
quiere decir eso?
decir.
To
Quitarse la mascarilla.
Peso y medida quitan
al
hombre
say boldly what one thinks.

saves labor.
Method
fatiga.
Quitar 6 raer del casco.
To
Carne de pluma quita del rostro
ished plan.
Nutritious food conduces to vigor.
la
dissuade a person from a cher-
arruga.
Quitarselo de la boca, 6 de su comer.
To deny
one's self for the sake of
another.
la
Quien quita
ocasi6n,
quita
el
To
ni quita ni
temptation avoids
abolish a tax.
Without exaggeration or omission.

This alters nothing.
Sin quitar ni poner.
No
avoids
sin.
pecado.
Quitar un tribute.
Eso
He who
pone.
To
To
quitar los ojos.
Quitar la paja.
look carefully, attentively.

wine from a glass before
taste the
another drinks.
En
quitarme
alia esas pajas.
For quitame
alia esas pajas.
No
Not
quitar pinta.
quitar.
Quitarse un tajo.
Quitar las barbas.
Quitado
to differ at
all.
To wash away.
To be on the point of finishing.
Of short duration.
To parry a stroke in fencing.
To get shaved.
Quitar lavando.
Estar al quitar.
Very quickly.
For little or no reason.
esto.
Excepting
Get
Quiteselo V. de la cabeza.
Quitar el cabestro.
To
To
Quitarse de cuentos.
this.;
besides
this.
that idea out of your head.

slip
the halter.
neglect
the
details
of an
af-
fair.
i
Yo
te quitarre los
mocos
you a sound whipping.

take an office from a one-eyed
man, and give it to a blind one.
I will give
y di^ronlo a
To
Quitar de un Santo para poner en
To
Quitaronlo a
la tuerta,
la ciega.
otro.
take a thing or office maliciously
from one person, and bestow
upon another.
it
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Eso
como
es
To
quitarlo del altar.
191
deprive a person of a very need-
ful thing.
To
Quitar la voluntad.
dissuade a person from a pur-
pose.
Quitar a uno alguna cosa

cabeza.
de
la
To
dissuade a person.
To unmask.
To cheat a person
Quitarse el embozo.
Quitar a uno el pellejo.
out of
all
he has
to pluck a pigeon.
Quitar a uno
To
a paseo.
el ir
Agua por San Juan, quita vino y no

da pan.
i
alia
Quita
Quitar
la
Te
To
To
al pastel.
hojaldre
la capa.
la
quitar
suppress an office.
Get out of
Be off go
Quitar a uno
i
do wheat no good.
To
Quitar un empleo.
Quitate de ahi
prohibit one from taking a walk.

June rains are bad for grapes, and
crisma
that
!
rob a person.
break your head
To
kill
extravagantly, depending
on generous
Refrescar los viveres.
Refundir infamia.
regana dientes.
registrar.
El sano
doliente so regla lo mete.
al
Regular los votos.

A Dios y riamonos
friends.
To freshen the nip (nau.).

To take in fresh provisions.
To defame to dishonor.
Refrescar los cables.
No
a person.
To spend
Recetar en buena botica.
detect a fraud, or theft.
I will
Quitar del medio 6 de un medio

6 quitar a uno la vida.
nonsense
como
dijo
un
ciego a otro.
With great reluctance.

To do anything precipitately.
Those who are free from vice should
restrain those who are tempted.
To count the votes.
God be with us, and let the rest
go as one blind man said to an!
other.
To laugh immoderately.
To giggle.
Reir a carcajadas.
Reirse por nada.
Riese el Diablo cuando
da
el
hambriento
al harto.
Reirse de
Pujo de
Relevar
dalesa.
turno a la
laughs
when
the poor
man
gives to the rich.
reir.
el
The devil
bomba 6
son-
To
An
To
laugh at ...
irresistible desire to laugh.
spell
(nau.).
the
pump
or the
lead
SPANISH IDIOMS.
192
Relucir
To
la espalda.
have a large marriage portion

be rich.
to
Relucir
No
To be
el pelo.
es oro todo lo
Remachar
que
reluce.
All
is
fat.
not gold that
To add
el clavo.
error to
glitters.
error;
to
make
things worse by unwise attempts

to better them.
Remacharle
las narices
To
a uno.
flatten
a person's nose with a
blow.
Rematar un
Rematar en
To
To
ajuste.
el
mayor
poster.
strike a bargain.
sell
or knock
down
to the high-
est bidder.
Rematar a
Lo que no
presidio.
se
puede remediar,
se
ha
To condemn to the state-prison.

What can't be cured must be
de aguantar.
en-
dured.
Hidalgo honrado, antes roto que
mendado.
Remienda tu pano, y pasaras
el
re-
ano.
The gentleman of honor, ragged

rather than patched.
careful of your clothes,
Be
and they
will last the longer.
espada.
Rendirse sin condici6n.
To go and drink in a dram-shop.

To stem the tide.
To set the watch (mil.).
To surrender.
To surrender one's self as prisoner.
To surrender unconditionally.
Reniego de bestia que en invierno
I detest
Remojar
la palabra.
Rendir marea.
Rendir
la guardia.
Rendir
las
Rendir
la
armas.
a lazy animal.
tiene siesta.
Reniega del amigo que cubre con

alas, y muerde con el pico.
las
Avoid those who natter when present, and injure when absent.
Rinen
las
When
las
comadres, y se dicen
verdades.
Renovar
gossips quarrel, they
tell
bit-
ter truths.
To
la llaga.
revive a painful
remembrance
to increase a sorrow.
Renovar
la herida.
To remind
another of a sorrowful
fact.
Renovar
la
memoria.
Renunciarse a
Reparar en
si
mismo.
pelillos.
Reparar
el
tim6n.
Reposar
la
comida.
Resollar por la herida.
To
To
To
To
To
To
refresh the
memory.
give up one's own will or taste.

take offence at trifles.
right the
helm (nau.).
rest after eating.
betray latent resentment.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
No
No
He
He
resol!6.
respir6.
193
did not utter a word.

did not open his
lips.
Respirar por la herida.
To have no valid answer to a charge.

To speak ill of one who has offended
No
Not
donde
tener por
respirar.
us.
retener nada en el est6mago.
Esta retentado de
to
He is
la gota.
be able
to
keep a
secret.
threatened with another attack
of gout.
Retenir
To grate on the ear.

To abandon vice or bad
las orejas.
buen
Retirarse 6 recogerse a
vivir.
habit
to
reform.
No
el
huye
se retira,
que
dijo-Don
Quijote.
Confieso que me he retirado, pero

no he huido.
Retozar con
Retozar
Una b6veda
retumba.
Reventar de
risa.
To
To
la
mina.
todo reventar.
Reventar de envidia, de
uno
not to
Don
said
fly,
did
vault resounds.
burst into laughter.
discover anything hidden.

At most ; at the extreme.
El buen viejo reverdece.

Revestirsele a
is
la risa.
Reventar
retreat
Quixote.
I confess that I retreated, but
not fly.
To revel to feast merrily.

To be moved to laughter.
verde.
el
To
el
celos.
diablo
el
The good old man rejuvenates.

To be bursting with envy, or jealousy.
To become furiously angry.
demonic.
Revolver
el hato.
Revolver
las tripas.
Revolver
la feria.
Revolver
el ajo,
To promote discord.
To cause great disgust.
To disturb the course of business.
To revive disturbances and disputes.
To offer much, and do little.
6 caldos.
Bien reza, pero mal ofrece.

El calendario reza agua.
Cuando el diablo reza, engailarte
quiere
rain.
When
the devil prays, beware
To be
ostentatious.
Rodearse de
fausto.
Lo rodean domesticas
satisfacciones
6 hijos amantes.
Me rodean tantos cuidados.
Ruede la bola
Rodar mundo 6 ver mundo.
Rodar la fortuna d alguno 6
!
la
The almanac announces
fortuna a alguno.
soplar
He
possesses a happy
loving children.
have so many cares.
don't care
To travel.
To be lucky.
let
it
go as
home and
it
will
SPANISH IDIOMS.
194
Roer
Roer
el
To
To
anzuelo, 6 el lazo.
los zancajos.
A Dios rogando, y con el mazo dando.

Rogar a Dios por Santos, mas no por
gossip
to talk against people.
Pray devoutly, and hammer stoutly.

Excess is wrong, even in a good
cause.
tantos.
Rogar
escape from a danger.
Santo hasta pasar
al
el tranco.
To
invoke the saints while the emerlasts.
gency
To make
la valla.
Romper
a beginning
to
exceed
bounds.
La codicia rompe el saco.

La cuerda siempre rompe por lo mas
Grasp
all.
always breaks at the weak-
est point.
delgado.
No romper
lose
all,
The cord
Romper
Romper
la voz.
las oraciones.
To be of a peaceful disposition.
To train the voice for singing.
To disturb a conversation imper-
Romper
los cascos.
To
lanza con nadie.
tinently.
Romper un camino.
;
Rompe
galas
break one's head
to
weary with
close study.
To build a road.
Beware of injury
your dress
to
(irony to a person in tatters)
Con
To
salud le rompa.
Saber
la carta
de marear.
Saber a que atenerse.

Saber un punto mas que
No
saber
el
congratulate one
new dress.
To know how
To know how
el diablo.
paradero de alguno.
To
who
has on a
to behave, or to act.
to act.
outwit the devil.
Not
know what has become
to
of
him.
No
saber de
To be overwhelmed with
si.
Yo s que es hombre de bien.

Lo que saben tres, sabe toda res.
Quien mas sabe, mas calla.
Quien poco sabe, presto lo
Sabe que rabia.
reza.
occupation.
know he is an honest man.

What three know, everybody knows.
He who knows most says least.
He who knows little soon tells it.
I
It has
a strong
taste.
He
is
very
skilful.
Saber algo de buena
No
tinta.
que.
To know
I
know
a thing on good authority.

not what; an inexplicable
something.
Saber bastante para su ano.

Rat6n que no sabe mas que un horado,
pronto es cazado.
To manage
well for one's age.
rat that has

is
but one way of escape
easily caught.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Las migajas del
fardel,
a veces saben
Unconsidered
bien.
La
The
sometimes do
first
point in business
is
to avoid
loss.
la ropa.
No
trifles
service.
good
gala del nadador es saber guardar
195
To proceed
saberlo la tierra.
in
any
affair
with great
secrecy.
Saber
To
vidas ajenas.
las
Quien no sabe abuelo, no sabe de

bueno.
Mucho
la
sabe la zorra, pero
mas quien
The
toma.
fox
cunning, but his captor
is
more
is
so.
One should speak
las sabe, las tane.
Quien
inquire into other people's lives.
Those who have no grandparents

lose very much.
only of what one
understands.
Mas
sabe
necio en su casa que
el
cuerdo en
el
aprieta el
le
zapato.
Aquel sabe que se salva

no sabe nada.
Conviene a saber
saber
que
el otro
6 es a saber.
el
valor de
un peso,
pidelo prestado.
Quien no sabe que
knows more of
fool
his
own
house than the wise of another's.
Cada uno sabe donde
Si quieres
The
la ajena.
es guerra,
vaya a
Every one knows where
his
own shoe
pinches.
It is better to be lucky than wise.
That
If
is
to wit.
you wish to know the value of a

dollar, ask the loan of it.
To
give advice ignorantly.
ella.
Hacer
saber.
Saber una cosa

i
Sabe Dios
No
como
j
Ave-MarL.
el
Sabelo Dios
se sabe.
To make known.
To have a thing at one's
God knows
not known.
It is
Saber con puntualidad.
To know
S^pase quien es Calleja.
They
No
No
No
saber
el Jesus.
Not
saber donde se tienen los ojos.
Saber cuantas son cinco.

Saber
mucho
Saber de
No
Latin.
carretilla,
saber la
de memoria.
cartilla.
Saber d no dudarlo.
Todo
se sabe hasta lo
exactly.
will
soon know with
whom
they have to deal.

To be an ignoramus.
el Cristus.
sabe ni
tongue's end.
de
la callejuela.
to
know even
the alphabet
to
be quite uneducated.
To be very ignorant and unobservant.
To
To
To
To
To
be well informed.
be very sagacious and prudent.
know by
heart.
be extremely ignorant.
know
Truth
for certain.
will out,
though hid
in
a well.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
196
No
No
saber a que carta quedarse.

saber que pensar de una cosa.
Saber a la pez.
To be at a loss how to act.

To be quite undecided, all
To taste of pitch.
No
No
Not
saber lo que se pesca.

sabe en donde tiene la cara.
Saber mas que
He
asno en cuya cara
el
is
about.
his duty.
The
knows
ass
well in
whose
face
he brays.
rebuzna.
Bien sabe
know what one
To be crafty and cunning.

To know everything (ironical).
las culebras.
Saberselo todo.
Bien sabe
to
does not know
at sea.
sabio que no sabe
el
el
necio piensa que sabe.
The
man knows
wise
ignorant ; the
himself wise.
Saber de que pi se coja.

Sacar el ascua con la mano ajena
To know
To make
one's
that
h*e
is
ignoramus thinks
weak
side.
a cat's-paw of any one.
sacar castanas del fuego con la

mano del gato.
To grieve another person.

Too demonstrative an affection
Sacar sangre.
Can que mucho lame,
saca sangre.
is
undesirable.
Sacar una cosa de quicio.

Sacar en claro.
Sacar a
Sacar
al
luz,
6 dar a
luz.
tablado.
Sacar a la plaza
To unhinge, overturn, pervert.

To elucidate.
To publish.
To bring to light to make known.
To expose to make public.
;
6 a relucir
6 d
volar.
Sacar a alguno los trapos

Esa pasi6n te saca de ti.
To proclaim a person's faults.

You are beside yourself with passion.
To quarrel bitterly.
To be haughty, elated.
To astound to confound to stun.
To harass, vex, tease, annoy.
To turn out unfavorably.
To outwit to conquer by stratagem
al sol.
Sacar los ojos.

Sacar el pescuezo.
Sacar de tino.
Sacarle a
uno de
Sacar mal
la
sus casillas.
cuenta.
Sacar de la puja.
or address.
Juan es malicioso, pero Pedro

saca de la puja.
Obra saca
obra.
Sacar de gntre
las
manos.
le
John is suspicious, but Peter is

more so.
One work leads to another.
To take from a person what he believed secure.
Sacar
el
alma de pecado a alguno.
To make
a person say what he would
rather not.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Sacar
To
lengua d pasear.
la
Sacar
on a person's saying what
insist
we
dislike to hear.
To worm a secret out of any one.

To pump a person to draw out his
un secreto a alguno.
buche d alguno.
Sacarle
197
el
secrets.
Sacar de su paso d alguno.

Sacar a uno de su paso.
To'
Sacar 6 chupar los tuetanos d alguno.
To
To
make
a person act unnaturally.

induce a person to diverge from
his usual habits.
cheat, a person by playing
upon
his fears or impulses.
Sacar
la
To
lengua a alguno.
Las viruelas empiezan a sacar
la
ridicule any one.

Small-pox begins to appear.
cabeza.
pecho.
Sacar la espada por alguno.
To prove a person a liar.

To make one lose patience.
To draw the sword in a cause.
To stand up in defence of any one.
To uphold the character or opinions
Sacar d uno de los garras de otro.
To
Sacar del polvo d alguno.
To
Sacar mentiroso d otro.

Sacar de madre.
Sacar
la
Sacar
el
espada.
of any one.
rescue a person from the grasp
of another.
raise
a person to a higher posi-
tion.
To
To
Sacar la cara por otro.

Sacar a hombro d alguno.
sustain or defend another.
undertake the care of another
to save from danger.
Sacar
nos
el
;
alma
el
las tripas
coraz6n
;
los
tuta-
las entraiias
To
extort
money
from, or to injure
another.
alguno.
To place one in peace and safety.

To obtain something good.
To profit by a thing.
To challenge to call out.
To put one to shame in the pillory.
To call nicknames.
Sacar d paz, y d salvo.
Sacar tajada.
Sacar astilla.
Sacar
al
campo.
Sacar a la verglienza.
Sacar apodos.
Camisa y toca negra no sacan

dnima de pena.
al
Costumbres de mal maestro, sacan
Excessive mourning gives no comfort to the soul of the departed.
bad teacher
is
the ruin of a pupil.
hijo siniestro.
Sacar d bailar, 6 d danzar, d una

senora.
To
invite a lady to dance.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
198
Sacar a
To
bailar.
drag a person or thing into a
conversation.
La
gallina
saca los huevos, 6 los
To draw
la polla.
Sacara polvo debajo del agua

Sacar los pies al nino.
al
nino de
on
fire
To put a child into short clothes.

To take a child from school.
To take a child from her needle.
To turn to account to derive benefit.
To fight fire with flame to turn the
la escuela.
Sacar la nina de
a prise.
He'll set the river
Sacar
the eggs, or the
chickens.
polios.
Sacar
The hen hatches
la labor.
Sacar provecho.
Sacar un fuego con otro fuego.
tables
To
Sacar un clavo con otro clavo.
like cures like.
cure one excess by another
to
drive out one nail by another.
Ad6
sacan y no pon, presto llegan
al
hondon.
Sacar agua.
Sacar agua de
las piedras.
Always taking out and never putting

in soon empties the purse.
To draw water.
To derive good
from what
most
is
unpromising.
primera azadonada <;quieres
la
sacar agua?
Do
you expect to find water

blow of the pickaxe?
first
complish a
effort?
tres
No
azadonadas sacar agua.
lo sacara
Sacar pajas
de
tres tirones.
6 sacar pajas de una
albarda.
Arador de palma, noMe saca toda

barba.
difficult task
at the
to ac-
without
To
obtain easily the object of one's

wishes.
He
will
not obtain
To draw
to
it
easily.
straws from a pack-saddle
do easy
things.
Difficult things
cannot be done by
everybody.
Sacar fuerzas de flaqueza.

-Sacar los pies de las alforjas.
Sacar bien el caballo, 6 sacar el
caballo limpio.
Sacar fruto.
To make a virtue of necessity.

To get over one's shyness.
To bring the horse safely from
the
battle, or the bull-fight.
To
reap the
fruit
of one's labor
to
get a
la capa, 6 su capa.
Sacar en limpio.
Sacar
good result.
To deny a charge successfully.
To clear up doubts to come
;
conclusion
mal ano.
Sacar pelotas de una alcuza.
Sacar
el
vientre de
to transcribe.
To satisfy hunger.
To be very clever,
or ingenious.
to a
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Sacar grano de una cosa.
No se saca arador con
To
pala de
199
derive benefit from a thing.
Proper means are needful to success.
azad6n.
Sacar
la
cabeza.
Sacar de su cabeza alguna cosa.

Sacar la conversaci6n.
To show one's self.

To invent something.
To suggest a subject
in
such a way
provoke discussion.
draw a bill of exchange.
as to
Sacar con los pies adelante A alguno.
To
To know a person by his resemblance.
To identify a person by some mark.
To sell at auction.
To make a statue.
To make verses.
To present one's self by proxy.
To carry one out feet foremost to
Sacar alcalde.
bury him.
To elect a magistrate.
Sacar una
letra.
Sacar por
Sacar por
el rostro.
la pinta.
Sacar A publica subasta.

Sacar una estatua.
Sacar versos.
Sacar
la cara.
To
To
Sacar los recados.

Sacar de borrador.
take out a marriage license.

dress a person neatly and de-
cently.
Sacar aparte.
Sacar a volar d alguno.
Por el hilo se saca el ovillo.
To extract a tooth.
To call aside.
To bring one forward in public.
From seeing the beginning one may
Sacar la novia por
To remove
Sacar una muela.
conjecture the end.

a bride, legally, from pa-
el vicario.
rental authority.
Sacar
To
unas.
las
avail one's self of every
means
in
an emergency.
Sacar por
la
una
To
al Ie6n.
infer
something from
slight
prem-
ises.
To make almond
Sacar aceite de almendras.
Los pedantes
sacan
todo
cuanto
Pedants
tell all
oil.
they know.
saben.
Saca
y mete muertos.
sacado buen tiempo.
sillas,
Hemos
Sacar de
pila.
Sacar los colores

Sacar
No
al rostro,
6d
la cara.
la espina.
saques espinas donde no hay es-
pigas.
He
is
We
have started with
an understrapper.
fine weather.
To become sponsor at baptism.

To make a person blush.
To eradicate an evil.
Do not work to no purpose.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
200
Sacar bien su capa, 6 su caballo.

Sacar de la puja d alguno.
Sacar d uno de trabajos, 6 de una
To extricate one's self from difficulty.

To extricate another from a difficulty.
To help another out of troubles, or
dificultad.
difficulties.
To relieve distress.
To rescue one from misery.
To obtain part of what one demands.
To haul a vessel ashore (nau.).
To whip severely to beat out the
Sacar de panales.
Sacar el pi del lodo d alguno.
Sacar raja.
Sacar
el bajel
Sacudir
el
a tierra.
polvo.
dust with a stick.
Sacudir
el
polvo de los pies, 6 za-
To
shake the dust from off one's
feet, in disgust.
patos.
Sacudir
el
balandran.
Sacudir
el
jugo.
To beat a person with a stick.

To shake off the yoke.
To shake off an encumbrance.
To go bail for any one to
Sacudir las moscas.

Salir
por alguno
Salir
de capa de
salir fiador.
stand
security.
To
raja.
cast off old clothes
to better
one's fortune.
Me
sali6
una buena colocaci6n.

me ha salido bien.
good
This
Este negocio
situation turned
affair
up
for
me.
has turned out well for
me.
Ya he
salido
de todos mis granos.
have disposed of all my grain.

He will turn out a good mathemati-
Saldra buen matematico.
cian.
Salir
Salir
Le
una cosa taz con

con algo.
To be brimful, complete.
To obtain anything.
taz.
con su pretensi6n.
con la suya.
sali6
Salirse
He
obtained what he desired.
To
accomplish one's end
one's
Salir
Salir
to
have
To carry out an enterprise.

To relinquish an enterprise.
con una empresa.

de una empresa.
Todo
own way.
The whole
saldrd en la colada,
affair will
be brought
to'
light.
Salir a salvo.
mar.
Salir
Salir
d volar.
la
Salir d la causa,
6 d
las burlas asi
salgan a
To end well.
To put to sea.
To make public to expose.
To defend one side of a question.
Jest in such a manner that it may
la
ve d
demanda.
ellas
que no
ve'ras.
Salir tres pies a la francesa.
te
not turn to earnest.
At once
immediately.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Salir
To
de su padre.
201
be released from paternal guar-
dianship.
a su padre.
Pronto saldre de hijo de familia.
Salir
To
resemble one's father.
Salir
I shall
To
de mantillas.
Sol de invierno sale tarde, y se
pone
The
winter's sun rises late
early
presto.
soon be of age.
get beyond leading-strings.
good
things
and
sets
late
and
come
go soon.
Salir
de
uno alguna cosa del coraz6n.
Salir a
El sol
Al
At
del sol.
salir
del suelo.
El bien y
To be enraptured.
To say a thing sincerely.
The sun
sale.
salir
No
si.
el
mal a
la cara salen.
rises.
sunrise.
To be very small.
Good or ill health
*
is
shown
in the
face.
Saiga pez, 6 saiga rana, a la capacha.
Be
it
fish
pouch
Salir el verano.
Del monte
sale
con que
se arde.
The
One
or be
it
a frog, into his
it
goes.
summer ends.
always causes his
own
misfor-
tunes.
Del
monte
sale
monte
el
quien
The
injuries
near
Donde humo
sale fuego se hace.
Salirse
cabo
de una
salir
con
Salir
a una cara.
Salir
Salir del vado.

sale,
Salir a gatas.
de
is
smoke
there
la dificultad.
en tu
The
must
order.
Happen what may.

The horse stood me
in sixty dollars.
To show something in one's

To overcome difficulties.
To get out of a difficulty.
la orilla.
El mal que de tu boca

seno se cae.
there
fire.
To go through.
To quit a religious
religi6n.
Saiga lo que saliere.

El caballo me sali6 en sesenta pesos.
Salir
suffer
us.
Where
be
Salir al
from which we
sometimes come from those very
que ma.
face.
which escapes from thy

into thine own bosom.
To have a narrow escape.
To extricate one's self from a diffievil
lips falls
culty.
Salir a
Salir
nado.
limpio de polvo y paja.
To
save one's self by swimming

do something veiy difficult.
To come
sound.
to
out of danger, safe and
SPA.VJSff IDIOMS.
202
Salir
Salir
To
To
de un cenagal.
de alguno.
una nueva moda.
Sale
The
Sale la mancha.
Esta calle sale a
Salir
de
de compas.
aftair.
spot disappears.
This street opens on the square.

To be produced ; to be published.
la plaza.
Salir a luz.
Salir
get rid of an unpleasant

get rid of a person.
new fashion appears.
To
To
tino.
be out of one's senses.

in one's
fail
duty
to act errat-
ically.
To
Salir calabazas.
be plucked
to
fail
an exam-
in
ination.
Salir
Me
To
alguno calabaza.
ha salido mal esta marineria.
the
disappoint
expectations
formed of one.
That speculation has turned out unfortunately.
Salime
al sol, dije
mal y
oi peor.
Gossip
poor speaking and worse
is
hearing.
To go
Salir al encuentro.
Salen caros en Madrid los
gneros
to meet a person ; to oppose

a person's opinions.
English goods are dear in Madrid.
ingleses.
To
Salir los colores al rostro.
Lo mejor sale mas
barato
lo
barato
blush.
The
best
is
the cheapest in the end.
sale caro.
was divulged, found, discovered.
Sali6 a colado.
It
Ese
This barrel leaks.
Salir
barril se sale.
con su media espada.
Salir al atajo.
To interrupt a conversation foolishly.

To interrupt one who is speaking;
to
Salir
La
To
de uno, alguna cosa.
por el albanal, 6 arbol!6n.

Sali6 de la regla.
Salir
por
la
suggest something.
The attempt
tentativa sali6 mal.
Salir
meet with a counter-argument.
To
He
failed.
an enterprise.
broke the
To be
ventana.
in
fail
rule.
turned out
to violate a con-
tract.
Salir
de algun oficio.
de esta vida, de este mundo.
Salir
de barrera.
Salir
To
To
To
leave a position.
die.
expose
one's
self
to
censure.
Salir al
camino
Salir a la causa,
salir al
6 a
la
encuentro.
demanda.
To meet or assault
To be a party to a
a person.
lawsuit.
public
SPANISH IDIOMS.
con
Salir
El
To
pleito.
de
salir
la
es la
posada
mayor
203
win a lawsuit.
Well begun
half done.
is
Jornada.
Salir
por
la
To
puerta de los perros.
fly
precipitately for fear of pun-
ishment.
Salir
con un domingo
Salir
a campo.
To do something utterly irrational.

To go out to fight a duel.
To come out (from a conflict)
siete.
Salir herido.
wounded.
To go to the war.
To come off guard.
To go off with flying
a campana.
Salir
Salir
de guardia.
Salir
con banderas desplegadas.
who
troops
Salir
de
Salir
de sus
To
To
militar.
casillas.
colors (said of
capitulate with honor)
.
personate a soldier.
act
inconsistently
with
one's
habits.
To go away
Salir atestando.
de
Salir
las
llamas, y caer en las
in
a passion.
Out of the frying-pan
into the
fire.
brasas.
de
Saltar
la
sarten,
y dar en
las
de lagunas y entrar en mojadas.

de lodazales, y entrar en cenagales ; 6 salir de lodq, y caer en
Salir
Salir
el
i
out
sales
the
frying-pan
Out of the mire and into the mud.

Out of a small trouble into a great
one ; or, out of the mire and into
Saltarse la tapa
de
Saltar las lagrimas.
que
Unfortunate
pawn
la
of
fire.
the brook.
arroyo.
Desdichado balandran, nunca

de empenado
Andar a
To jump
into the
brasas.
coat
never
out
of
Constant debt.
To blow out one's brains.

To burst into tears.
To give one's self up to a vagabond
los sesos.
-
salta.
life.
Saltar
de
la
To make one's self known (said

one who was concealed).
The bird has flown.
To be in high spirits, very merry.
mata.
Salt6 el pajaro del nido.
de gozo.
Saltar
Por do
salta la cabra, salta la
que
la
of
Like parents, like children.
mama.
Salta
tti,.y
damela
A juvenile play of thread-the-needle.
tu.
Ml viento salt6 al este.
Saltar
i
en
tierra.
Salte gente a la
banda
The wind
shifted to the east.
To land
Man the
to disembark.
ship's side
(nau.).
SPANISH IDIOMS.
204
Saludar a
To
la voz.
mujer barbuda, de
la
lejos se la
Salvarse en
una
To
tabla.
que Sancho sana, Domingo
lo
bras.
que sana
lo
el
higado, enferma
The wounded body heals more readily than the wounded reputation.
Important things are not
To
lightly
ob-
drain one of his money.
He
drained my purse well.

To dog to pursue closely.
To follow or watch a person.
He who sins is haunted by fear.
To persecute another bitterly.
To follow another's lead or opinion.
To continue what one was doing or
hopo.
Seguirle los pasos a uno.
Al que mal vive, el miedo le sigue.

Seguir a alguno hasta la mata.
Seguir la bandera de alguno.
Seguir
have a very narrow escape.

is one man's meat is another
tained.
Sangrar a uno de la vena del area.

Me sangr6 bien la bolsa.
Seguir
bearded
What
la bolsa.
el
of a
society
man's poison.
adolece.
Sanan cuchilladas y no malas pala-
Con
to huzza.
the
woman.
saluda.
Con
cheer
Avoid
el hilo.
saying.
To
Segu'ir las letras.
devote one's self to literature or
science.
Seguir
el
To
To
pend6n de alguno.
Sellar los labios.
Quien
siembra
abrojos,
no
ande
enlist in the
army
He who
sows brambles must not go
barefoot.
descalzo.
Quien abrojos siembra, espinas coge.
He who
Como
As you sow, so
sows brambles reaps thorns.

shall
siembres, segaras.
Sembrar en arena.
To
Cuando
Spend and labor
siembres, siembra trigo, que

chicharos hacen ruido.
Sembrar 6 meter
Sembrar de sal.
(mil.).
silence.
zizafia.
only on
useful
things ; judiciously.
To sow discord.
To sow
the land with salt (a pun-
ishment
He who
Quien bien siembra, bien coge.
you reap.
labor in vain.
for traitors).
takes
proper means,
will
attain his end.
Sembrar en mala
Poda
errares
Como
To be
tierra.
tardio y siembra
temprano
si
un ano, acertaras cuatro.
sembraredes, cogredes.
Quien vientos siembra, tempestades
coge.
kind to ungrateful people.
Sow your seed
early,
and prune your
trees late in the season.
As you sow,
He who
so shall you reap.

sows the wind reaps the
whirlwind.
SPANISH
205
To settle (said of a building)

To settle to form an establishment.
To establish a camp to pitch the
Sentarse la obra.
Sentar
ILIOA1S.
.
el real.
Sentar los reales.
king's tent.
Sentarse a
Sentdos
mesa
To
puesta.
majagranzas,
adonde
que
live at other people's expense.

thee down, clodpole ; for in whatever place I am seated, that is the
Sit
quiera que yo me siente sera vuestra cabecera.
upper end to thee.
The load
Sentarse la carga.
chafes (said of a beast of
burden)
Nos sentamos a la sombra, y

mos alii tan ricamente.
estuvi-
Sentar plaza ; 6 asentar plaza.

Sentarse en la conclusi6n.
Sentar bien la camida.
We
seated ourselves in the shade,

and were so comfortable.
To enlist as a soldier.
To be bigoted.
To assimilate the food
well.
Our mainmast sprung
(nau.).
Se sinti6 nuestro palo mayor.

Sentir a par de muerte una cosa.
To be
Sin sentirlo la tierra.
With
Sentir de muerte, 6 a par de muerte.
To regret very much.

To be vivacious, sprightly,
Sentir nacer la yerba.
extremely sorry for a thing.
and caution.
silence
keen,
clever.
Esta casaca no
me
This coat does not
sienta bien.
Ese color sienta bien a su complex-
This color
i6n.
No
le
is
fit
me
becoming
well.
to her
com-
plexion.
sent6 bien la conversaci6n.
Senalar los motives de
6 expli-
This conversation did not please him.

To account for.
carse.
To mark
Senalar con piedra blanca.
a happy day with a white
stone.
To
Senalar a alguno con el dedo.
a person as blame-
out
point
worthy.
Dios es grande
Cristo sea el masinero
God
God
Dios es Dios que esto sucedera
As
help us
help
Como
Dios es servido, 6 si Dios es

servido, 6 siendo Dios servido
God
merciful to us
surely as there
be so
;
God be
me
is
a God,
this will
willing
Donde Dios es servido

La verdad es hija de Dios.
Es una bendicion 6 es bendici6n
!
de Dios.
God knows where

Truth
is
the child of
God's blessing
abundance)
It is
God.
(gratitude for
SPANISH IDIOMS.
206
Ser padrino de un nino, tenerlo en
To
stand godfather to a child.
la pila.
To be a priest.
God forbid
May the devil be
Ser de corona.
i
Fuera de Dios
El diablo sea sordo
of
Ese
No
No
That
es el diablo.
diablo que . . .
ser muy diablo, 6 gran diablo.
sea
el
Diablos son bolos.
Ahi sera
deaf
words or
ill
ill
(deprecation
luck).
the difficulty.
is
Lest ... for fear that
Not
be very bright or capable.
to
Earthly things are unstable.

is the time, or point, of great-
Now
el diablo.
est danger.
Ser la piel de diablo.

Ser el demonio.
To be
To be
Ser de rigor.
Ser de esencia.
To be
To be
Es
quinta essencia de alguna cosa.

Las malas nuevas siempre son ciertas.
It is the
Hijos y polios, muchos son pocos.
Of
La experiencia es madre de laciencia.
before maturity.
Experience is the mother of science.
a limb of the
devil.
a demon, or a very keen per-
son.
Ser
la
mas conocido que
indispensable.
essential.
quintessence of a thing.
news
Ill
is
To be an
la ruda.
sure to be true.
children and chickens,
many
die
extremely well-known per-
son.
Lo mejor de
los
dados es no jugar-
The
let
los.
best thing to
them alone.
do with dice
Viejo es Pedro para cabrero.
Old people should
Es una buena espada.

Es buena pua.
He
He
Ciertos son los toros.
So then,
Ama sois,
mama
People cling to those

need.
ama,
ama, mie'ntras el nino

desde que no mama, ni
is
to
live quietly.
is
a dexterous swordsman.
is
a keen blade.
true.
it is
whom
they
ni nada.
Alegraos antruejo que
manana
sera
Human
lana
There
enjoyments are not
lasting.
ceniza.
Cual mas, cual me'nos, toda

es pelos.
Es remiendo de 6tro pano.
iQue
es del libro?
Ser en salvo a una cosa.
la
is
little
to
choose between
them.
It is
a very different thing.
Where
To
is
the
be able
book?
do a thing
to
safely.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Cual es
la
es la bada-
tal
campana,
jada.
Cuando
fueres por camino,
mal de
no digas
las seis
Media vida
la otra
The fame of a deed depends on

him who performs it.
Never speak
tu enemigo.
of others in public
ill
places.
El me!6n y casamiento ha de ser

acertamiento.
Son
207
Marriage and melons are matters of

luck.
It is exactly six o'clock.
en punto.
es la candela,
pan y vino
With good food and
fire
the
dis-
comforts of winter can be borne.
media.
lo tuyo en el consejo, y unos

diran que es bianco ; y otros que
P6n
Opinions
differ,
often diametrically.
es negro.
No
es
moco de
It is
pavo.
not a
may
El que es enemigo de la novia, no
dice bien de la boda; 6 <;como
dira bien de la boda?
;
Buena ganga
No
es esa
Este
mundo
Como
redondo
se va al
es la gracia
es profeta
must ask advice from
disinter-
bring a cannon to shoot a snipe

to be without a meaning.
It is
tabla.
Todo el mundo es uno

mundo es pais.
Nadie
not so easy as you
Not
es golfo
no sabe nadar,
ested persons.
To
ser sin misterio.
Es una cosa de
We
trifle
think.
de V.
; quien
hondo.
6 todo
el
a matter of course.
Be prudent
this
world
is
an abyss,
and those who cannot swim, sink.

Faults may be found everywhere.
Pray what is your name ?
one is a prophet in his own
No
en su
pais.
mujer
es poco,
country.
El consejo de
la
el
woman's counsel
he who despises
que no le toma es loco.

Es una Babilonia.
There
is
is
not much, but

a fool.
it is
a crowd, an uproar, a con-
fusion.
Si
no
es en esta barqueta, sera en la
que
If not to-day,
it
will
be to-morrow.
se fleta.
Ser de la oposici6n.
To belong
Ese hombre es un verdadero vocab-
opposing party.
This man is absolutely a speaking
ulario parlante, y ambulantc.

Este cuarto es un zambuco.
la
vaca hasta
la
cola le es abri-
gada 6 la vaca hasta de

hace cama.
;
la cola
to the minority, to the
and walking dictionary.

This room is very narrow.
He who has eaten well sleeps well.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
203
No
To be
es ni su sombra.
but the shadow of one's
mer
Ser
mas
repe!6n
6 que
6 que el
un
cuarto.
prstame
sarna
la
que
viejo
y no se coci6.
Es un trasunto de su padre.
Vieja
fiie",
Cada uno
Todos somos
Quien ruin
hijos
es
To
offer insufficient excuse.
What
La privaci6n es causa del apetito.

Ser alguno juguete de la fortuna ; 6
jugar la fortuna con alguno.
Ser su dia, 6 ser
No
si
el
buena, una
es
Privation promotes desire.

the sport of fortune.
To be
Olives should be eaten sparingly.
He
fu
en mi ano, no
fu
come
will
flesh.
The time when one becomes famous.
dia de alguno.
es nino.
Lo que no
bred in the bone
is
out in the
Sevilla.
Aceituna una, y
docena.
hills.
tance than his parentage.

are all the children of Adam.
ruin es en
villa,
be very old, older than the
We
de Adan.
en su
To
He is the picture of his father.

A man's character is of more impor-
de sus obras.
es hijo
for-
self.
en
mi dano.
es mancha de judio.
Ser una cosa de consecuencia.
Es muy extrano.
Eso no es de la incumbencia dc V.
Fraile que fu6 soldado, sale mas acer-
No
no longer a
is
What
child.
cured must be en-
can't be
dured.
but a
It is
trifle.
To be
important.
very odd or strange.
That is none of your business.
It is
He who
the
tado.
has been disappointed in
world succeeds best
in the
convent.
Things clear and manifest.

have all that is requisite
Esas son habas contadas.
No
ser cojo ni
To
manco.
for
doing a thing.
Lo que
fu6 y no
hubiera sido.
es,
es
como
si
no
That which was, but is

it had never been.
not,
is
as
if
Ssr de mesa traviesa.
To
Aquf fu Troya.
Fuit Troja (said of a place of which

no vestige remains).
be an old
member
of a corps, or
oociety.
Soy de Costa Rica.

Soy con V.
Lo que
es
bueno para
malo para el bazo.

Es un hombre seco.
am
I will
el
higado, es
What
a native of Costa Rica.
attend to you presently.

is one man's meat is another
man's poison.
He
is
man
of
few words.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Tan buena
como
es Juana,
su her-
209
are as like as two peas.
They
mana.
No
ser 6
no tener
To
arte ni parte.
to
part in
No
es
e"l,
Donde
ni su semejanza.
fuiste caballero,
la batalla
fue"
no seas escu-
cuando no
es-
cap6 nadie.
Ser 6 estar de buena hebra.
not become a page.

is a hard
battle where
That
To be strong and robust.

To belong to a person's party.
son
para
Truths
)e
should not always be
re-
vealed.
dichas.
No
none
escape.
>
Ser de alguno.
No todas las verdades
it.
not he, or anything like him.

Where you were a gentleman, do
It is
dero.
Renida
nothing to do with an
have neither art nor
have
affair;
son todos los tiempos unos.

los gatos son pardos.
noche todos
All times are not alike.
When
the candles are out,
all
cats
are grey.
La muerte
es roida, y
llamar a
las
vida, siempre
Cada uno
cuando
puertas
va de
es artifice
llega,
When
de nuestra
death knocks at the door, he
turns a deaf ear to
excuses.
all
prisa.
de su ventura.
Every
man
is
the
maker of
his
own
fortunes.
Antes quisiera ser
el
idolo
de un
de un'j6ven.
viejo, que
Del sabio es cambiar de consejo ; 6
la esclava
la
Rather an old man's darling than a

young man's slave.
La necesidad
es
madre de
la
inven-
man may change
wise
tenacidad es divisa del necio.
his
mind
fool, never.
Necessity
is
the mother of invention.
ci6n.
Nunca
It is
Un
es tarde para arrepentirse.

corazon contento es un festin
continuado.
Mas
la
el
oveja que hace
hdbito
is
Much
cry and little

noise than nuts),
al
lobo
It is
su pareja.
.No es
late to repent.
a continual
feast.
es el ruido que las nueces.
Necia es
never too
contented mind
wool
(more
a foolish sheep that makes a
confessor of the wolf.

el
que hace
al
monje.
It
is
not the frock that makes the
friar.
La miel de mi casa es la mas dulce.

Mientras en mi casa Cutoy, rey soy.
El que ha de ser bachiller, menester
ha de aprender.
Each one
thinks his
man's house
Learn
is
own
the best.
his castle.
to creep before
you run.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
210
La costumbre
es otra naturaleza.
Esa
es harina de otro costal.
No
soy costal
6 no tengo boca de
Habit
That
I
is
is
second nature.
quite a different thing.
cannot
tell all
at once.
costal.
Ser mas conocido que la ruda.

Ser area cerada.
To be extremely well known.

To be as yet unknown; to be
closed book.
ser mucho tiempo
comi^ncelo
hacer presto.
viejo
Quien
quisiere
Let him who would
be old
in youth.
begin living moderately

is an excellent swordsman.
Es una buena espada.
He
Ser 6 vivir de
To be
la hoja.
live to
a swordsman
to
be a brag-
gart.
Los ojos son arcaduces y lumbreras
The
del alma.
the
eyes are
mirrors
of the
soul.
Es hermosa sin pero.

Es un gran pincel.
Es un criado tal cual.
She
He
He
is
is
is
perfectly beautiful.
a great painter.
a servant, after a sort (tol-
so so).
erably good
That does not please me.
;
Esto no es de mi agrado.
Ser
To be
al caso.
Se porta
como quien
He
es.
Ser una cera, 6 hecho de cera.

Ser de bulto.
Si es
que acabo de
entrar.
To be
To be
I
To be
Es una arafia.
Es un berengenal.
Ser una gotera.
He
No
juicio.
de colores.
En tierra de ciegos
It is
que debe juzgar

el tuerto es rey.
Among
colors.
is
si
por zaranda no
veo.
Cuan
tela
Ser
ciego es aquel que no ve por

de cedazo.
muy
de casa
time to be prudent.
To be a multitude, a great quantity.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
A blind man should not judge of
es lengua del alma.
es el ciego el
Harto soy ciego
an industrious man.
a labyrinth.
Constant repetition.
Ser un juicio.
La pluma
is
It is
tiempo de tener
es
as pliable as wax.
as clear as possible.
have but just come in.

easily movable.
Ser alguna cosa de quita y p6n.
Ya
to the purpose.
behaves as he should.
muy de
Ser 6 estar de buena hebra.
adentro.
the blind the one-eyed
man
king.
must be blind indeed not
to see
through such clumsy pretexts.

He must be blind indeed who cannot see through a sieve.
very intimate in a house.
To be
To be
strong and robust.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Es flojo como una vedija de lana.
Pedro es un ave.
Es una pimienta, 6 una chispa.
Es una p6lvora.
como
Ser vivo
No sea que
Como quiera que
.
Sea
as restless as quicksilver.
is
Lest
sea.
very witty and facetious.
However
Be that as
sea lo que sea, 6
como sea como fuere.

Ya sea de este modo, 6 de
as a rat.
very quick.
be as quick as lightning.
To be
que fuere
lo
is
He is all life and spirits.

He is a firebrand.
He
sal.
weak
as
is
Peter
To
la p61vora.
Es un azogue.
Ser un terr6n de
.
He
211
at
it
any
rate.
may.
Erase que
Desde que
Ya no
No
mundo
el
es lo
ser
otro.
6 se era.
que ha
mundo.
es
Be it this way, or that.

Once upon a time.
From
de este mundo.
-To
the beginning of time.

now what it has been.
not
It is
sido.
live retired
from the world
to
be very innocent and simple.
Ahi serd
Una
ello
vez que
Tal cual
Lo que
Si
6 ahi fuera
e.so
ello.
Then we
shall see.
Since that
es asi.
Such
es.
What
Were
fuere sonara.
yo fuera que V.
is
so.
as he, or
it, is.
will be, will be.
in
your place
had
your
means.
Visto es
Eso
6 visto
es bien, 6
Todo
It is evident.
esta.
mal
That
visto.
es uno.
Una no
is,
To
es ninguna.
John
is
Es de mi
It is
my
No
plato.
not, proper.
lo
de me'nos.
ser rana.
Ser una oveja ; 6 una pavesa.

Soy muy de V.
Es muy mio.
Soy mio.
No ser uno dueno de si.
Buenas son mangas clespues de pas-
same.
is
pardonable.
just himself.
greatest pleasure.
So much the
Ser un dibujo ; 6 ser una pintura.

Ser cosa de miel.
cua.
is
transgress once
Juan es quien es.
Es otro tanto oro.

Tanto es lo demas como
or
It is all one, the
better.
The middle course is safest.

To be able and expert.
To be as pretty as a picture.
To be soft, sweet, delicate.
To be gentle and docile.
I am entirely yours
yours very truly.
;
He is very friendly to
I am my own master.
Not
to
me.
be one's own master.
Better late than never

are always welcome.
good things
SPANISH IDIOMS.
212
Si
no hubiera sido por mi,
le
But
habrian
matado.
Eso
es
me
for
they would have killed
him.
de N.
That
He
He
He
right, to a
is
be
just as
it
should
a matter of course.
Es hombre de brio.
Es un ingenio divino.
Es hombre de obligaciones.
Ser hombre de su palabra.
Ser muy hombre.
Ser poco hombre.
man of mettle, courage.

man of uncommon talent.
is a man of integrity and honor.
To be a man of his word.
To be manly and brave.
To lack courage or talent; to be
Es un buen chico.
Es un Undo chico.
Es muy trucha.
He
He
He
No
ser zurdo.
Ser
mozo de buen
To be
To be
Es un buen
recado.
He
sugeto.
To
ser capaz 6
un
no saber hacer mal a
hombre de
is
a fine lad.
is
very clever.
very clever.
a youth of good conduct.
is a good, or honest, fellow.

deserve approbation.
kindly, good-natured person,
who
cat.
He conducted himself with propriety.

He is a man of strict morals.
To be
categoria.
Asi fuera yo santo
docto
would not hurt a
gato.
Su conducta fue" acertada.

Es un hombre ajustado.
Ser
is
very little of a man.

is a good man.
Ser en grado.
No
is
como
fulano es
man
of mark.
were but as
If I
saintly as
he
is
wise
Pedro es una arafia.

Es una maravilla.
Es un estuche
6 es un estuche de
and
Peter
is
He
He
a prodigy.
a very clever fellow.
is
is
industrious
thrifty.
habilidades.
S6 padre de
de
No
las virtudes,
Be a
y padrasto
es la primera zorra
que ha deso-
This
Ser algo que.

Es el mejor timbre de su escudo.
La pobreza no
es virtud, el sopor-
con animo,
La pobreza no
To
and a
step-
not the
cuando no
la cruz y los ciriales.
first
fox that he has
indicating
skill.
have some value or merit.
That
is
Poverty
it
si.
es vileza,
nace de malas costumbres.
Es menester
is
skinned
llado.
tarla
father to virtues
father to vice.
los vicios.
the best
is
gem
in his crown.
not a virtue, but to bear
bravely
is
one.
no disgrace, if it be not
the consequence of bad habits.
The cross and the candles are necesPoverty
is
sary ; nothing of value

without effort.
is
gained
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Es una admiraci6n.
It
Ser con alguno.
To
El amigo en
adversidad es amigo
la
213
a thing worth admiration.

agree with another in opinion.
is
need
friend in
is
a friend indeed.
en realidad.
Ser de viva.
To
Obras son amores y no buenas razo-
Show your
give hopes of life.

love by deeds, not
excuses.
nes.
En tiempo de
borrasca todo puerto
Any
de bestias
It is
is
port
good
in
by
a storm.
es bueno.
De hombres
es
perseverar en
errar;
el error.
humanity
Es hombre muy llegado a
las
horas
de comer.
Al cabo de cien
afios,
human
todos seremos
He
to err;
it
man
very ready to do what

him.
pleases
In a hundred years we shall be free
is
from the miseries of
salvos.
Es una comedia
6 paso de comedia.
beneath
is
to persevere in error.
It
is
life.
very amusing, laughable.
Voluntad es vida.
There
No
own way.
It is not much to bestow the leg of
a chicken upon one who has given
is
great satisfaction in having
one's
es
mucho que
a quien te da la
gallina entera, tu des
de
una pierna
us the entire fowl.
ella.
Ser una cosa de punta.

Lo mismo es a cuestas que al
To be
hom-
If a
como
To be
thing be well done,

matters how.
bro.
Ser una cosa mas, 6 tan clara,

el agua ; 6 el sol.
To
Ser la nata de alguna cosa.
of the best quality.

little
it
perfectly clear.
be the cream, or spice, of any-
thing.
Ser de buen 6 mal contento.

i
TO be
Despacio, que no soy escopeta
easily pleased
Patience,
am
or the reverse.
not a gun
(as
Fu
quickly as I can).
To be full of admiration for some-
Es de buen comer.
It is
la negra al bano, y tuvo que

contar un ano.
I,a
mejor
hambre.
El
ama
salsa
del
mundo
es
el
thing seen for the

agreeable food.
The
best
sauce
in
first
time.
the
world
is
hunger.
brava es Have de su casa.
judicious
housekeeper prevents
foolish waste.
Es menester que
en
el
suyo.
el
que ve
la
mota
ojo ajeno, vea la viga en el
He
that sees the
mote
in another's
eye has need to see the

his own.
beam
in
SPANISH IDIOMS.
El pi del dueno estiercol es para
heredad.
la
manana
de hacer
el
cosa?
tal
temerario en ver-
dadero valiente que
Es mas
el
is
manure
for
Castile red skies toward Ara-
gon mean
rain
red skies toward
Will you be pleased to do so-and-so ?
To
dar
facil
owner
Portugal fine weather.
Ser servido.
Es mas
From
sol seran.
(jSera V. servido
foot of the
the land.
Arreboles de Arag6n, a la noche con

agua son ; y arreboles de Portugal
a la
The
please
to deign
to grant.
It is easier for the rash
than for the
cowardly to become brave.
cobarde.
venir el pr6digo a ser

liberal, que el avaro venir a ser
facil
It
easier for the prodigal to
is
liberal
be
than for the miser.
prodigo.
Todavia es consuelo en
las
desgra-
There
cias hallar quien se duela dellas.
El sueno es
alivio
de
las miserias
de
que las tienen despiertas.

buen general es el alma de su
pathy.
Sleep
Ser para en uno.

Ser muy del ara.
hombre de
pleito
claro,
good general
To be
To be
To be
Ser una y carne.
Ser con guisa.

ser
cure
the best
for
waking
is
the soul of the
army.
To be well matched (in marriage).
To be a bosom friend.
eje'rcito.
No
En
is
troubles.
los
Un
always consolation in sym-
is
pe!6a.
no
menester
es
close friends.
just reasonable.
a quiet, timid man.

Evident justice needs no defenders.
letrado.
En
casa del gaitero todos son dan-
zantes.
En
Where
will
casa del alboguero
todos son
Where
the father pipes, the children
dance.
the father leads, the house-
hold must follow.
albogueros.
Ser alguno hijo de la nada.
To
raise one's self to
a higher posi-
tion in society.
The
El coraz6n no es traidor.
Ser
el ojo
To
derecho de alguno.
heart
is
no
traitor.
be the right eye (very important)
to another.
Ser la lumbre de sus ojos.

Ser sus pies y sus manos.
To be
To be
apoyo de la vejez.
Primero es la obligaci6n que
To be
the light of one's eyes.

one's chief support and con-
solation.
Ser
el
la
de-
the staff of one's old age.
Business before pleasure.
voci6n.
La cuenta
es cuenta.
Business
is
business.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
La Bolsa
es
bar6metro del
cre"dito.
215
The Exchange
is
the barometer of
credit.
Ese
That
es el cuento.
is
the difficulty
there
is
the
rub.
To be
To be
Ser un cuento de cuentos.
Ser
mucho
Oro
es lo
cuento.
Gold
que oro vale.
very complicated indeed.

excessive, exaggerated.
is
worth what
buy ; the
what it will
will
it
worth of a thing
is
bring.
Mi
palabra es prenda de oro.
El buen pagador es
seilor
My
de
lo
word
as
is
as
good
my
The punctual paymaster
bond.
always has
credit.
ajeno.
Ser alguna cosa oro en barras.
To
Ser en cargo.
equally certain value).

To be a debtor.
be as good as
Ser en carga.
Ser alguna cosa de ciento en carga.
Ser todo matas y por rozar.
To trouble to tire a
To be of little value.
No
Not
ser virtud.
Ser dueno del baile
6 ser
No
ser
dueno de alguna
No
ser
hombre de pela.
La
diligencia es
ventura.
La ociosidad
es
el
todo.
To be
the principal in any
buena
madre de todos
los
affair.
to have liberty to dispose .of a
thing ap one pleases.

be unsuited to the
la
of
person.
To
madre de
(i.e.,
complicated business.
to be so good as appears.
Not
cosa.
gold
management
of great enterprises.
Industry is the mother of success.
Idleness
is
the root of
all evil.
vicios.
Ser de mala madera.

Ser duro de mollera.
Ser un bronce
6 tener un coraz6n
de bronce.
Ser de bronce, 6 de
Temprano
Una cosa
hierro.
prometer, y otra es
cumplir.
hard-hearted
to
be able to
cuarto ahorrado
indefatigable.
are very ready to ask.
one thing to promise, and another to perform.

Honesty is the best policy.
It is
Honesty
los ladrones.
ganado.
obstinate.
To be
You
La honradez es la mejor politica.

La justicia es necesasaria aun entre
Un
lazy.
endure hard work.
es noche.
es
To be
To be
To be
is
necessary even
among
thieves.
es
un cuarto
penny saved
is
a penny gained.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
216
Time
El tiempo es dinero.
Cuando
necio es acordado,
el
el
mer-
cado es ya pasado.
Ser capaz de sacar los dientes a un
ahorcado.
is
While
money.
fools
hesitate,
opportunity
passes.
To
be capable of drawing the teeth

man who was hanged ; to be
of a
a
Ser hombre de buenas narices.
Ser un Argos,
6 estar hecho
un
Argos.
Ser dura, 6 hacerse dura alguna cosa.
skinflint.
To be
To be
prudent, cautious, provident.
very vigilant.
To be
to
difficult
or
believe,
to
bear.
He
Es amigo de ganar la vida.

Ser de buen 6 mal calibre.
Si quieres ser rico, calza
de
viste
<j
<j
A como
A como
La
To
de vaca, y
fino.
How
es el cafe ?
plaza de Madrid es
muy
socor-
quality.
If you would become rich, wear

calf-skin shoes and strong clothes.
What
es eso ?
rida.
Tanto
fond of gain.
is
be of good or bad
is
is
the price of that?

coffee selling?
The market of Madrid
well sup-
is
plied.
es
de mas como
lo
lo
de
m6nos, 6 tanto monta.
Ni mio
es el trigo, ni
cibera,
Eso no
too
mia
es
la
y muela quien quiera.
es
de
la
Extremes are to be avoided, either
incumbencia de V.
Los placeres son por onzas, y
los
That
much
is
or too
not
my
little.'
corn or
let
him grind who
my
business.
my
will
hopper,
none of
That does not concern you

none of your business.
Pleasures
may be weighed by
it
is
the
males por arrobas.

Ser hombre de copete.
ounce, and pains by the quarter.

To be a man of much respectability.
En
The prudent man
la
boca del
discreto, lo publico
is
reticent toward
the public.
es secreto.
El polio de Enero, en San Juan es

comedero.
January chickens are good in June.
En ano bueno
In a good year, grain is used like

hay ; in a bad year, straw is used
ano malo
el
grano es heno
en
la paja es grano.
like grain.
Cuando
el
verano es invierno, y
el
invierno verano, nunca buen ano.
Manana
serd otro dia.
Ratones arriba, que todo
no es
harina.
lo
bianco
When
the seasons are reversed, the
is never a good one.

To-morrow may bring better
year
All
is
not gold that
glitters.
luck.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
celada de bellacos, mejor es
hombre por
los pies,
que por
huevo,
sino por
el
217
When among
rogues,
run than to
las
it
is
better to
fight.
manos.
No
es
el
por
el
not for gain, but for justice

(said of a lawsuit).
It
is
fuero.
Ese no es
That was not
el trato.
in the
agreement
you
flinch.
Este contrato es de ningun valor, ni
This contract
is
and void.
null
efecto.
Buena queja
es
mejor que
mala
paga.
No
estas discor-
el ser
de
to settle these ques-
This phrase sums up the whole pro-
proposici6n.
de
Ser,
than bad
tions.
esa frase estriba todo
la
me
not for
it is
dias.
En
better
is
pay-
mio sentenciar
es
good claim
la
position.
To
cuerda de otro.
Esto esta en su
be of another's opinion.
This remains unalterable.
ser.
To be
Ser todo jarabe "de pico.
readier with words than with
deeds.
ese paso el dia es un soplo.
Todo
At
eso es paja.
Ahorcado sea
tal
wealth soon
this rate
flits
(ad-
dressed to spendthrifts).
This is all chaff, is worthless.
Sold (sacrificed) at the very lowest
barato.
price.
Si el
coraz6n fuera de acero, no
venciera
el
le
dinero.
It
to
difficult
is
resist
pecuniary
temptation.
Quien en un ano quiere ser rico,

medio le ahorcan.
Esa es, la madre del cordero.
al
He who makes
rich soon
He
undue haste
comes to grief.
offers false excuses.
Yo me
False excuses
Ser de provecho.
No hay tonto para su provecho.
Ruin sea quien por ruin se tiene.
To be
era negra, y vistie'ronme de

verde.
to be
make
matters worse.
useful or profitable.
Nobody is a fool for his own profit.

The world takes you at your own
valuation
mean he who thinks
;
himself mean.
No
es
todo
There
el sayal alforjas.
Los dedos de
la
mano no son
igua-
no
Even the
>
rule without exception.
fingers
on one hand are
not equals.
les.
Quien
is
sirve
Esta es
la
no
es libre.
pajina mejor de su historia.
He who
That
is
serves
is
not
free.
the best part of his history.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
218
Es hombre de
He
arraigo.
man
is
of considerable landed
property.
Esas son otras mil y quinientas.

la de Dios; 6 a la de Dios es
That must
also
be added.
The
inconsideration or temerity with

which affairs are sometimes un-
Cristo.
dertaken.
Agosto y vendimia no es cada dia, y

si cada ano, unos con ganancia, y
otros
Have a
care
the
con dano.
comes
vintage
but once a year, and
is
precari-
ous.
da por peso.
Algo es queso, pues se
an
If
article is
worth weighing,
it is
worth something.
La pobreza no es
ramo de pereza.
vileza,
mas
es
Primero son mis dientes, que mis
is no crime, but sometimes

implies a want of energy.
Poverty
Charity begins at home.
parientes.
Por
los
bueyes que son de mi padre,
siquiera aren, siquiera
no aren.
Los duelos con pan son menos.
People are very careless where personal interests are not concerned.
Troubles are more bearable
not also poor.
be qualified to vote
if
one
is
To
Ser voto.
to
be com-
petent to judge.
This belongs to me.

The better course will be.
Esto es mio.
Lo mejor
sera.
Qu fu lo que en realidad pas6 ?

Es en balde.
Ser uno de tantos.
:
Juan
es del consejo.
<;Como me eso?
What did
It is
To
be one of the members.

of the council.
did this happen?
What
Here
Even
brasa.
member
is
How
quiere ser esto ?
Que
occur?
lost.
John
Aqui me ello.
De buena casa, buena
,;
really
labor
is all this ?
it
happened.
crumbs of wealth have
the
their value.
To be an
Ser una venta.
expensive or comfortless
place.
Ser una cosa de chicha y nabo.

Ser de monte y ribera.
Ser de
manga ancha, 6
tener
manga
To be
To be
To be
unimportant, immaterial.
fit
for anything.
unscrupulous.
ancha.
i
Ser buena tierra para sembrar nabos

!
Fine
soil for turnips
this
man
is
good
(ironical
for nothing).
i.e. t
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
es villano el
que hace
de
la villa, sino el
219
villain
not a
is
who does
la villania.
upon words)
Es una quinola.
Ser un pedazo de alcornoque.
Es un bolo.
La paloma
deeds (a play
very vexatious.
It is
Es una muerte.
Ser una porra.
Es la vida perdurable
but one
villager,
villainous
To be
very dull or stupid.
He
He
a stupid fellow, an idiot.

an unendurable bore.
is
is
To be
very tiresome, a bore.

or
It,
he, lasts forever
(said of a
tedious person or occurrence).
The dove is the favorite prey of the
!
es la ralea del halcon.
falcon.
Ser franco
como un
To be
gavilan.
as
hawk
To
Ser una manta mojada.
generous as a sparrow-
(ironical).
be useless
to discourage
to
be
a wet blanket.
Es una cosa de mala

Es mas delicado que
La mucha
calana.
It is
discrete.
He
familiaridad es causa de
mas
necio, 6
more
nice than wise.
Too much
familiarity breeds con-
tempt.
menosprecio.
Ser un hazmereir.
Ser
a bad thing.
is
mas
ruin que su
To be a laughing-stock.
To be more stupid than
very
zapato.
Es un burro cargado de
With
letras.
mean and
his
all
an owl
low.
he
learning
is
but a
clown.
Es un solemne bobo.
He
is
Ser un cascabel.
To
have
El bobo,
tle-brained, cracked.
If a fool holds his tongue, he
si
es callado, por sesudo es
6 nada me'nos que
tonto.
Son lobos de
little
judgment
to
be
rat-
may
pass for a wise man.

To be ignorant and rude.
reputado.
Ser un cesto.
Es un indio
a downright booby.
He
neither
is
more nor
less
than a
fool.
la
misma camada.
Es como un oro
patitas y
todo
They
!
are wolves from the
same den
chips from the same block.

He is a scoundrel (spoken
!
scorn)
The wolf and the vulture are of
in
El lobo y la vulpeja, ambos son de

una conseja.
same mind
the
wicked
alike.
tin-
think
SPANISH IDIOMS.
220
Este nuestro
hijo,
Don
Lope,
ni es
miel, ni hiel, ni vinagre, ni arrope
He, or
it,
ni es carne, ni pescado.
You
use-
(i.e.,
less)
To be
Ser buena guitarra.

Otra cosa es con guitarra.
neither fish nor flesh,
is
nor good red herring

artful
and cunning.
will sing
a different song
when
the time comes.
Un
fatuo es obra de la naturaleza, y

majo lo es de la vanidad.
An
idiot is the
a fop
el
is
work of
nature,
and
that of vanity.
To be
To be
quite clear, evident.
Ser de caj6n.
Es un buen sastre.
Es un corto sastre.
Es un caj6n de sastre.
He
He
He
is
is
not skilled in his profession,

a confused, superficial scrib-
Ser de bulto.
a matter of course.
is
silly fellow.
bler.
Es la corneja de Esopo, 6 de la fabula.

El libro es bueno aun con esas faltas.
He
a plagiarist.
is
The book
is
good, notwithstanding
those faults.
To be
Ser todo hoja, y no tener fruto.
all
leaves
and no
many words and

El perro
flaco,
There
todo es pulgas.
always an
unfortunate.
si
son
is
To be mere
Ser flores de cantueso.
Entre
little
ill
fruit (i.e.,
thought)
word
for the
trifles.'
There are petty disputes between
flores.
them.
Al gusto dafiado 6 extragado, lo
dulce le es amargo, 6 el gusto
danado juzga lo dulce por agrio.

Ser amigo de regalarse.
Ser alguno el eco de otro.
Si eres nino
y has amor
<;
que haras
One who
is prejudiced by passion
not heed gentle reproof.
will
To be
To be
Bad
cuando .mayor ?
fond of good
living.
a mere echo of another person.

habits, uncorrected in child-
hood, increase with age.
To be
Ser menester tenazas.
difficult to
extract anything
from one.
Es un
baile
de candil.
It is a
party of vulgar, uneducated
people.
i
Es un verdadero ramo de
ortiga
He
is
is
Es una atrocidad
que
Fraile
lo
que come,
lo
He
human
nettle
his character
unbearable.
eats, or works, excessively.
trabaja.
modesto nunca
fu
prior.
modest (unpretending) monk

never become prior.
will
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Este proceder no es de hombre de
bien.
Al mentiroso conviene ser memori-
221
This proceeding
honest man.
not that of an
is
needs a good memory.
liar
oso.
Coles y nabos para en una, son entrambos.
Los dos son embusteros a cual mas.

El enganador suele ser el engafiado.
Antes eran amigos, pero hace un ano
que tronaron.
Ser aficionado
De
las
al
zumaque.
aves que alzan
peor es
el
rabo, lo
are companions in low pleas-
They
ures
rascals seek their like.
are both tremendous
They
The biter
is
liars.
often bit.
Formerly they were friends, but they

quarrelled a year ago.
To be addicted to drinking.
Drunkenness
is
fatal vice.
el jarro.
Es una mala
It is a
shameful thing.
Ser de la cascara amarga.
To be
ill-tempered, or ill-natured.
Es un alquitran.
Es un bamboche.
Ser, 6 parecer, un coco.
Es una bruja, 6 parece una
Ser como un puno.
He
He
vergiienza.
To
a passionate man.
is a fat, short, red- faced
person.
be very ugly, a bugbear.
is
She looks
bruja.
To be
like
a witch.
miserly, close-fisted.
is much worse to come.

To be hard and close in business.
To have a hard heart to be able to
There
Estas son tortas y pan pintado.

Ser duro de pelar.
Ser coraz6n de bronce.
endure hard work.

Ser de la pega.
To
La noche
The
es
capa de pecadores.
belong to the gang.

night is a cloak for sinners.
Ser de dos haces.
To
Es un loco quien su mal echa a otro.
He who
be double-faced.
throws the blame of his
on others
faults
El que no puede ser agraviado, no

puede agraviar a nadie.
Ser una temeridad.
Esa
es otra.
He who
cannot
is
own
fool.
resent
an
affront
cannot give one.

To be impertinent, rash, excessive.
That is another impertinence of the
same kind.
Ser
el
To be
dado malo.
a scapegoat
to get
all
the
blame.
Ser
muy
delgado, 6 delicado para
infierno.
Esas son entradas de pavana.
el
To be
very sensitive to slight annoy-
ances.
These
are
unseemly pretensions
(irony to one who asks for a trifle
in a formal way).
SPANISH IDIOMS.
222
To be
Ser de buen pelo.
of fine fibre (used ironically,
as equivalent to ill-disposed).
To be
Ser cuchillo de alguno.

El buey harto no es comedor.
a thorn in one's side.
Undue indulgence enfeebles.

To make a poor figure in the
Ser de poco rango.

Ser un desdichado.
To be
a sorry,
pitiful
world.
creature
good-for-nothing.
a man of bad principles
To be
Ser 6 tener mala cabeza.
to
be weak-minded.
Ese hombre
es para todo,
6 es para
That man
nada.
Nunca
lo
bueno
What
mucho.
fu
mal que hoy se acaba, no es

remedio el de manana.
Para
el
azucaradas por mas son
Palabras
Si la locura fuese dolores,
Sugared words generally prove
es sabio.
Every one
en cada
bit-
Quien de todos
pobre, 6 es
muy
como
el
que
yerra.
es gran
Amigo de todos, y de ninguno, todo

es uno.
fool
is
He
Asno sea quien a asno vocea.

Buen principio, la mitad es hecho.
lo
mejor de
is
los
The
let
jugarlos.
an
el
who com-
Latin.
and nobody's
same thing.
friend
the
is
it
ass
who
is
brays at an ass.
half done.
way to manage dice

them alone.
best
Cheap
son Haves de todo
friends.
never a great fool unless he
Well begun
barato es caro.
Mayo
is
who have
as great as he
is
Everybody's
friend,
dados es no
friend
it.
knows
tonto.
El mejor lance, 6
everybody's
rich
They are
The fault
mits
nunca
is
either very poor or very rich.
Aquellos son ricos que tienen amigos.
sin saber Latin,
the mischief
were a pain, there would be
He who
rico.
es el yerro
when
groaning in every house.
es amigo, 6 es
muy
wise
is
done.
If folly
casa darian voces.
Lo
plentiful.
not ward
will
off the evil of to-day.
is
Abril y
ano.
good was never yet
is
To-morrow's remedy
amargas.
Tonto
he
ter.
Despues del dano, cada uno
Tan grande
for everything, or
is fit
for nothing.
is fit
is
to
things are dear in the end.
April and May are the keys of the

year (the crops depending upon
them).
Amor de
padre, que todo lo
demas
Parental love
is
the deepest of
all.
es aire.
Entre amigos y soldados, cumplimientos son excusados.
Between
friends
and
soldiers
pliments are needless.
com-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Buen apunte
Such
es fulano.
223
an
one
is
a nice
creature
(ironical).
Hombre
pobre, todo es trazas.
Pedro es un borrico.
Luego es verdad
!
Esa
i
Cristo que es de plata
al
hard.
a very hard worker.
is
Then
it is
true
That is the question.

Take care
es la cosa.
Ojo
man must work
poor
Peter
Ser un para nada.
To
be a good-for-nothing
Es un estuche.
Ser de poco mas 6 me"nos.
He
a very clever fellow.

be a despicable good-for-nothing.
Todo
To
agua de cerrajas.
es
No
He
una buena maula
Ella es
good for nothing ; empty words.

be a spendthrift, a lost creature.
is a
good-for-nothing fellow.
It is
To
Ser un perdido.
Es una buena maula.
i
She
es ftada.
a huzzy
(used jocularly)
nothing at all, nothing serious.
is a poor scrub.
is
It is
He
Es un pobre petate.
Ahi es un grano de
anis
Here
a grain of anise
(a sneer
unimportance of a thing).
is
at the
En
fellow.
is
casa del ruin la mujer es alguacil.
When
husband
the
is
a ne'er-do-
weel, the wife must rule.
He
To
Es un despachurrado.
No
No
ser
hombre para alguna
cosa.
Ruin sea quien por ruin
a ridiculous, insipid fellow.
is
be good for nothing.

Not a person to be depended upon.
He who does not respect himself
ser para silla ni para albarda.
se tiene.
will
Albricias
el
padre, que
Obispo
es
chantre.
Donde Dios
es servido.
Siendo Dios servido
Sirvase Dios
Please
con todo
Be
not be respected.
Those who ask for rewards which

they do not deserve.
Whatever God pleases.
it
God
God
!
as
done
Servire'
a V. con mis posibles.
I will
Quien a muchos amos sirve, a uno u

otro ha de hacer falta.
;
Sirva de gobierno
No
6 de aviso
servir a Dios, ni al diablo.
Sirvase V. decirme.
de toda broza.
un rico empobrecido, y no
a u n pobre enriquecido.
Servir
Sirve a
wills
God's
will
be
serve you with all my power.

can serve two masters satis-
No man
factorily.
Let
this
be a warning to you.
To be good
Pray
tell
for nothing.
me.
To do all sorts of work.

An impoverished rich man may make
a good master, but not an enriched
poor man.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
224
Sirve a Senor, y sabras
de dolor.
a hard matter to serve the pow-
It is
erful.
To
Servir el vientre.
Mas
no que
falte.
It is better to
to
hubo
falt6 ni
harto.
Sobreponerse a
los respetos divines.

a
las
hablillas del vulgo.
Sobreponerse
Sobresalto de tendones.
Socavar
la salud.
Socavar
la tierra.
be
be
to
have too
much
than
in want.
much nor
Neither too
too
little
the
quantity was exact.

To disregard the divine law.
To
disdain vulgar gossip.

Involuntary twitching of the muscles.
To
To
ruin the health.
root
up the ground (applied
Soltar la capa.
animals).
To take off the cloak
Soltar el reloj.
To make
Soltar la deuda.
To
To
To
to
to dodge.
a clock repeat ; to stop

the clock so that it may forever
mark
Soltar
gluttonous.
take undue advantage of a person's need.
vale que sobre que
Ni sobr6, ni
habitually
To
por hambre.
Sitiar
much
eat too
una especie.
Soltar el trapo, 6 la rienda.
the hour of victory.

a, debt.
forgive
throw out a suggestion.

give one's self
up
to vice or
bad
habits.
El tab!6n ha soltado su cabeza.
The end
Soltar la maldita 6 taravilla.
To
To
To
Soltar la carga.
Soltar la palabra.
of the plank has started.
give loose to one's tongue.

throw down a burden or duty.
absolve from an obligation
to
pledge one's word.

Soltar la voz.
Cuando el rio suena, agua lleva.

Lo que me suena, me suena.
Lo que
Bien
son6
lo
dijo.
la cantada.
que
prefer to call a spade a spade.

will be, will be.
What
fuere, sonara.
me
To divulge to publish.
To run through one's fortune.
When the river roars, the water rises.
;
Soltar la perra.
was much pleased with what he

said.
Mai me suena
Pato, ganso y ansar6n, tres cosas
suenan y una son

El bien suena y el mal vuela.
do not
Little
like the song.
meaning, and many words.
Good news
flies.
is
rumored, bad news
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Sonaba
el
ciego que veia, y sofiaba
lo
que queria.
Sondar la bomba.
La
fortuna
le
con porvenir de
gloria.
la
musa.
Soplar
la
dama.
Sosegarse el aire.
Sosicguese V.
Subir al trono.
la
consulta
are really difficult.

the pump (nau.).
Fortune smiles on him, and promises him a glorious fortune.
To have a poetic inspiration.

To marry a woman.
To be disappointed and ridiculed.
To deceive a person.
To conquer or surpass any one.
To grow calm.
Soplarse las manos 6 las unas.

Soplarsela a alguno.
Sorbtirsela a alguno.
Subir
Things sometimes seem easy which
To sound
sonrie
Soplar
225
Compose
yourself.
To come to the throne.

To lay an affair before the king.
To become supercilious.
To grow proud and haughty.
To be haughty, elated with good
al rey.
Subirse a mayores.
Subirse de talones.
Subirse en zancos.
for-
tune.
To be
Subirse a las barbas.
wanting in respect to one's
superiors
Subirse a las bobedillas.

Subirse la mostaza a las narices.
Subirse a predicar.
Subirse el vino a la cabeza.
Subir
la
cabeza.
Subir de punto.
Subir el calor.
El
rio,
la
marea sube.
The
la
To become rapidly rich or famous.

To improve one's literary style.
Subir
como
Subir
el estilo.
espuma.
La oraci6n breve
sube, 6 penetra al
cielo.
Subir
to fly in one's face.
To be violently irritated.
To fly into a passion.
To mount to the head (wine).
To become intoxicated.
To hold the head erect.
To improve to increase.
To raise or heighten the color.
river or the tide rises.
Short
prayers
heaven.
their
find
To raise the curtain.

To make a change
el te!6n.
Subir de pregonero a verdugo.
way
to
(of office) for
the worse.
Subir un articulo de comercio.

Subir a las
nubes, 6
estar por las
polio
:il
raise the value of
raise
or
an
increase
article.
prices
very
much.
nubes.
l-'.l
To
To
de Enero sube con
âllinero.
El gasto sube a cien pesos.
el
padre
Chickens are belter

than
in cold
weather
in hot.
The expense amounts

dollars.
to a
hundred
SPANISH IDIOMS.
226
suba
se
Aunque
al
6 A
cielo,
las
a barjuleta.
Suceda
lo
Sucedi6
It
Sudar
la
gota gorda.
sufrir pulgas.
Siifrase
tiempo
my
revenge, even though
in the clouds.
becomes an old rob-
filcher
Happen what may.
que sucediere.
asi.
la prensa.
young
it
ber.
Sudar
No
seek
Ladroncillo de agujeta, despues sube
have
I will
nubes.
penas
quien
tiene,
tiempo viene
tras
que
happened
so.
To print very much.

To make great efforts.
To be ill-tempered.
Courage, you who suffer;
times will come
better
Sufrir^ hija golosa, y albendera,
mas
no ventanera.
Bring up a daughter with tender indulgence, but with maidenly modesty.
Sufre por saber, y trabaja por tener.
Suffer that
you may be
labor that you
No
sufrir cosquillas,
6 morisquetas.
Not
al
To
yugo.
and
wise,
possess.
to permit jokes or tricks
be
Sugetarge
may
to
easily offended.
submit to the
will
or
command
of another.
Supeditado de los contraries.

Suplicar en revista.
Suppressed by enemies.
apply for a new trial.
To
To
Suplicar de la sentencia.
Supuesto que
appeal against a sentence.

;
Allowing that
granting that
To plough the ocean (nau.).
Surcar los mares.

Surtir efecto.
Suspenderse
el caballo.
Suspender
los pagos.
Suspender
el fuego.
Suspender 6 apear a uno de

6 empleo, 6 tratamiento.
oficio,
Suspirar por el mando.

Sustentarse del aire.
Comida, cama y capote, que

tente al nino y no le sobre.
sus-
To have the desired effect.

To rear (a horse).
To stop payment.
To hang fire.
To discharge a person from
To
To
To
Suspirar por el favor de la corte.
. .
office.
exist only in court favor.
aspire after
command.
on hopes.
Educate your children without undue luxury.
live
make long
Cuenta y raz6n sustentan amistad.
Short accounts
Es
It is the best in the world, or the
mejor que sustenta la tierra y

que calienta el sol.
el
Tachar a alguno.
Tachar testigos.
country.
To
To
accuse one of
levity.
challenge a witness.
friends.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Tajar
To cause great pain or sorrow.

To sound a person about anything.
To sound the bugle (indicating the
las telas.
Tantear a alguno.
Tanar de occisa.
Tapar 6
227
Taparse de medio
death of the game).

bribe a person to silence.
To
To
boca a alguno.
cerrarle la
ojo.
cover the face
Tardar un
all
women
(as Eastern
but the eyes

do).
To be dilatory, unpunctual.
To tax to rate at ...
To champ the bit to show
siglo.
Tasar judicialmente.
Tascar el freno.
impa-
tience.
Temblar
To
la barba.
undertake a
difficult
enterprise
cautiously.
Temblar
las carnes.
Temblarle
No
la
contera a uno.
temas mancha que
sale
con
el
To have a horror of a thing.

To be afraid.
Do not be afraid of evils that
agua.
easily
Los perros de
Zarita,
no teniendo a
quien morder, uno a otro se mor-
can
be cured.
The wicked turn upon each

when other victims fail.
other
dian.
Templar
gaita,
Tenderse a
6 la gaita.
la bartola.
To calm or soothe an
To wait and take what
angry person.
the gods pro-
vide.
Tender
Tender
Tender
el
pano de
puipito.
la raspa.
las redes.
Tenderla.
To speak much and diffusely.

To lie down to rest.
To cast the nets.
To challenge to provoke
;
a dis-
pute.
Tender
To pave
las velas.
the
way
for the
attainment
of an object.
once.
To be silly, ignorant, stupid.

To have but little judgment.
de
He
Tener cascos de calabaza.
Tener
No
la
cabeza a
las
tiene dos quilates
juicio.
has not the least judgment or
common
No
Not
sense.
tener ni rey ni roque.

Tener el seso en los calcanares.
To
No
be very stupid.
Not to have common sense.
to fear anything or anybody.
have one's brains in one's heels
to
tener seso.
Tener seco
No
el
crdneo.
To
de
He
tiene migaja
Tener
letras gordas.
juicio.
lack sense or judgment.

has not a grain of sense.
To be
completely ignorant.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
238
Tener avellanas en
To
la cabeza.
have
be
Tener malos cascos
6 cascos a
la
To
head
in one's
filberts
to
frivolous, brainless.
be crazed, hare-brained, harumscarum.
jineta.
Tener los sesos de un mosquito 6

de un chorlito 6 no tener cholla.
Not
No
He
tiene meollo.
to
have the brains of a mos-
quito, or of a sparrow.
has no brains.
Tener buenos 6 malos apanos.
Not
Tener
Not
to understand clearly.
To
be very credulous,
to
have an aptitude for any-
thing.
cataratas.
Tener buenas tragaderas.
de-
easily
ceived.
Tener buenas creederas.

Tener 6 usar mucha zandanga.
To
To
Tener muchas conchas
6 muchas
To be
very artful and cunning.
Tener alguno buenas 6 malas ausen-
To be
well or
gavetas
mucha
delude by
wheedle.
tiene
un adarme de memoria.
los ojos.
tengas cuidado, que yo te arre-
glare"
con
Tener
Tener
Tener
Tener
Tener
Tener
Tener
Tener
to
cajole,
spoken of
ill
in one's
He
has a very bad memory.
Be
cobwebs
in one's eyes).
careful, or I will punish
you
Tener buen cuajo.

Tener arrimados.
iQue
be credulous.
To be uneasy in mind, worried.

To look carelessly, without attention
(to have
No
to
absence.
Tener cascabel.
Tener telaranas en
flattery
letra.
cias.
No
swallow the bait
tienen que hacer las bragas

la alcabala de las habas ?
buena 6 mala boca.

zelos de uno.
ceno.
una nube en
el
coraz6n.
zorra.
mala condici6n.
6 poner en condici6n.
la
sangre caliente.
To be too dull and patient.

To be possessed by evil spirits.
To make inappropriate and ill-timed
remarks.
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
speak well or ill of others.

be jealous of any one.
look gloomy.
have a secret
grief.
be melancholy.
be of a peevish disposition.
hazard ; to expose to danger.
have one's blood up
to
be tho-
roughly aroused.
Este desacierto no tiene soldadura.
No
i
tener juicio.
Le tengo a V. rencor, senor
This wrong cannot be redressed.

To be wild, inconsiderate.
Have
at you, sir
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Tener
An
vuelta.
229
admonition to return a borrowed
article.
Tener vueltas alguno.

Tener 6 traer debajo de
Tener al estricote.
Tener
To be inconstant, fickle.
To trample under foot.
To harass, torment to amuse
los pies.
vain promises.
To be versed in tricks
refranes.
and
with
villa-
nies.
Tener pachorra.
Tener 6 hacer oidos de mercader.
Tener a me'nos, 6 en mnos.
Palabra y piedra suelta no tienen
vuelta
6 palabra de boca, piedra
To be phlegmatic.
To lend a deaf ear.
To depreciate anything.
word spoken, and a stone thrown,

cannot be recalled.
de honda.
Tener tema d alguna persona.

Cada uno tiene su tema.
Tener malas pulgas.
To
No
No
tener pepita.
Not
tiene pies ni cabeza.
That has neither rhyme nor reason

(neither head nor feet)
No
tener atadero.
To
have neither head nor
He
is
have a grudge against a person.

Every one has his hobby.
To be easily piqued ; to be ill-tempered.
to
mince matters.
Tiene mucha porra.

Ten conocidos muchos, amigos po-
Have many
cos.
acquaintances, but few
friends.
Tener de chinches la sangre.

Tener alguno la culpa.
No
tail.
extravagantly vain.
tener remedio.
Tener palabras con alguno
tra-
To be tiresome, troublesome.
To be guilty or blameworthy.
To be unavoidable.
To dispute with a person.
barse de palabras.
Tener el agua d la garganta.
To be
No
It is
tener hechura.
Tener una cosa buen 6 mal
prestigio.
To
To
in imminent danger.
not possible, practicable.
forebode good or evil from an
affair.
Tener por
dar en
Tener
6 tomar
la
flor
la flor.
contract a habit (generally a bad
one).
To be wrong.
tuerto.
Hombre
ni
flor
sentado, ni capaz tendido,
Lazy people
lose all their comforts.
camis6n curado.
Tener
los papeles
mojados.
To
tell
a person that the news he
brings
is
unfounded or
false.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
230
No
tener cabo, ni
cuerda alguna
cosa.
Tener que arrimarse a la pared.

Tener la lengua gorda.
Tener la guerra declarada.
confusion
It is all
has neither be-
ginning nor end.

To have drunk too much.
To be
To be
intoxicated.
at
open war (said of quarrel-
some persons).
Tener algo en
la
punta de
la lengua.
To
have something on the
tip
of
one's tongue.
No tengo boca de costal.

Tener por dicha alguna cosa.
Tenga V. entendido
Tener para si.
El que tiene bua, ese
cannot
To
warn you
To
remember
maintain a singular opinion.
To be
To be
He
is
That
Tiene cinco pies bobos.

El no tiene aun cincuenta anos, pero
le zumban.
He
He
so
many
years old.
very aged.
old.
is
news.
stale
quite seven years old.
is
is full five
feet high.
not yet fifty years old, but

very near it.
To think much of a thing.
is
Hold
own
near akin.
To be
She
Tener en mucho.
Tener
his
shoe pinches.
To have nothing to do with one.
Ella tiene siete anos bobos.
stop
At the top of one's voice.
gaznate tendido.
Tener casa y tinelo.
Si el caballo tuviera bazo,
hiel,
at once.
Every one knows where
la estruja.
No tener que habrselas con uno.

Tener de cerca.
Tener tantos anos.
Tiene mtichas navidades.
Tener canas.
Eso ya tiene canas.
loma
tell all
take something for granted.
la
pay
toda la gente se aven-
To keep open house.

An unsympathetic person
is
not
pleasing in society.
dria bien.
Quien
tiene hijas para casar,
tome
vedijas para hilar.
Parents must educate their daughters thriftily, in order to marry
them
Quien
tiene hijos al lado
no morira
Parents
hijo,
tuviste,
madre no
temiste,
mal despereciste.
Tener sueno.
Tiene mucha 6 buena retentiva.
Tener presente ; 6 tener en la memoria.
willingly
deny themselves
for the sake of their children.
ahitado.
Padre no
well.
father's authority is needful

the education of children.
To
be sleepy.
He
has a good memory.
To
bear
in
mind.
for
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
tener en olvido.
Tener
la carrera.
Tener puntos de
Tener narices de perro perdiguero.
Tener lugar.
En buen ano y malo, ten tu vientre
.
231
To keep in mind.
To continue on one's way.
To know, or have a little of ...
To foresee what is to come.
To take place.
At
all
seasons be moderate in eat-
ing.
reglado.
To
To
Tener hambre.
Tener buen diente.
be hungry.
be a great eater
to have a
good
appetite.
Mozo de
quince anos tiene papo y
boy of fifteen eats much and

works little.
no tiene manos.
El general tiene buena mesa.
The
Tener mesa.
To
Al cabo de un ano tiene
mozo
el
las
mafias de su amo.
Tener
general keeps a good table.

number of per-
invite a certain
sons regularly to dinner.

habits of the master are soon
The
adopted by those beneath him.
de, 6 en coraz6n
6 de me-
To know by
heart.
moria.
Quien
tuviere hijo vardn,
no llame a
We
must
beware of
others faults which
otro Iadr6n.
blaming
we may
in
pos-
sess ourselves.
Mas acompanados y paniaguados

debe de tener
la
locura que la
Folly will have
more
followers than
discretion.
discreci6n.
Tener algo por dicho.

Tener mucha mosca.
To take a thing for

To be very rich.
Fulano tiene monises.
Such an one
Tener que comer.

Tener 6 llevar bien herrada
Tener talego.
To
To
To
Pedro no sabe
lo
que
la bolsa.
tiene.
is
granted.
rich.
have a competency.
have plenty of money.
have money.
Peter has a very great fortune (does

not know how much he has)
.
Tener una buena
tajada.
To
have a lucrative occupation or
post.
Quien
tiene dinero, pinta pandero.
He who
has
money may accomplish
much.
Pues no
le
tengo yo por rico.
Tener piedra en el rollo.

Tener bien puestos los bolos.
Indeed, I do not think him rich.

have some credit.
To
To
take precautions to insure juc-
cess.
Sr,L\7SII IDIOMS.
232
Tener soga de ahorgado.
To have
the rope with which a
was hanged
to
(i.e.,
man
have good
luck).
Tener buen 6 mal aspecto alguna

cosa.
look well or
(speaking of
ill
business).
Tener pinta de
La cosa tiene buena pinta.
El tiene iguala con Pedro.
Tener que obedecer.
.
Quien
To
que atienda.
tiene tienda,
To
have the appearance of ...
The
He
thing looks well.

serves Peter for a stipulated sum.
To be
obliged to obey.
Keep
thy shop, and thy shop will
keep thee.
Tener copete.
To be fortunate.
To assume an air
Tendre" sobre cien pesos.
I shall
Tener
To keep commercial books.

The business is difficult, intricate.
To be extremely difficult.
Tener
estrellas.
have a
dred
de comercio.
los libros
El negocio tiene pelos.
Tener unas algun negocio.

Tiene mucho que henir.
Tener alguna cosa su legua de mal
It is
To
of authority.
more than a hun-
little
dollars.
difficult.
very
have
difficulties.
camino.
Fulano tiene chispa.
Tener mundo
mucho mundo.
Such an one
To be
is
acute,
very acute.
not easily deceived
have experience.
be quick-sighted ; not easily im-
to
Tener
To
colmillos.
posed upon.
Tener ojos de
lince.
To be
lynx-eyed
to see very clearly.

stand by me, and
Tened y tengamos.
Give and take
Tener la bola en el emboque.

Tener una cabeza de hierro, 6 de
To be on the eve of
To be indefatigable
I'll
stand by you.
Tener sangre en
el ojo.
To be prompt and
filling
lo tendr
crisis.
in business
to
be stubborn.
bronce.
Se
a V. en cuenta.
I shall
honorable in
ful-
engagements.
make
it
good
to you.
Tener cuenta alguna cosa.

Tener la casa como una colmena.
To be profitable, or advantageous.
To have one's house well stocked
Tener en caro.
To estimate highly.
To be experienced;
with provisions.
Tener garrones.
ceived.
not easily de-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Eso no
Eso no
That has not a shadow of truth.

That has not the least appearance
tiene traza de verdad.

tiene
233
emboque.
of truth.
Tiene trazas de ser un picaro.

No tiene obra buena, ni palabra mala.
Tener 6
La mentira
To
mala cabeza.
ser
tiene las piernas cortas.
Quien no tiene vergiienza, todo
el
es suyo.
campo
Tiene muchas
paga
lo
que debes, sabras
lo
que
tienes.
Quien poco
tiene,
has shprt legs
lie
covered).
has no
He who
To be
nada pierde
tiene,
never keeps his word.

be unprincipled.
soon
dis-
shame cares
for
(i.e.,
is
nothing.
is full of stratagems.
That wrong cannot be corrected.
largas narices.
Quien nada
bears the marks of a rogue.
He
alicantinas.
Este desacierto no tiene soldadura.
Tener
He
He
on one's guard.
debt, out of danger ; or, pay
cautious,
Out of
what you owe, and you

what you have.
He who
poco teme.
possesses
little
will
has
know
to
little
fear.
Tener cara de corcho.
To be
No
Not
tener muelas de corcho.
brazen-faced, impudent.
to be easily
imposed upon (not
to have teeth of cork).
Tener
sus miras.
To
Quien
tiene arte va por todas partes.
He who
have a definite purpose.

has a trade
may
get a
liv-
ing anywhere.
Tener pelos en
el
To
coraz6n.
be energetic, courageous, vigor-
ous in action.
is a very generous man.
Peter has a great deal of business
Pedro no tiene cosa suya.

Pedro tiene muchas dependencias.
Peter
Tiene empeno en
He
on
que
su
amigo
his hands.
is
bent on his friend's success.
saiga bien.
Tener cabida con alguno.

Tener brazos.
To be in high favor with one.

To have powerful friends or interest
Tener
To
at
el pi
en dos zapatos.
Tiene mucha ventaja sobre todos

demas.
Tener de su parte a uno.
los
command.
have two strings to one's bow.

He possesses great advantages over
the rest.
To
have a person in one's favor, on
one's side.
Tener
el
mando
el
palo.
To have
thing.
absolute
power over any-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
234
No
tiene guarismo.
It is incalculable.
To
To
To
To
Tener horca y cuchillo.

Tener cuatro terrenes.
Tener muchas campanulas.
Tener buenos papeles.
be lord of the manor.

be rich
in
landed property.
be loaded with honors and
titles.
keep documents proving one's
nobility or merit.
Tener a deshonra alguna
To
consider a thing unworthy of

one's rank or character.
cosa.
Tener buenos cimientos.

Tener sobre si, 6 a cuestas.
To
To
Tener a
To
have a solid
basis.
have on one's shoulders, on one's
hands.
cuestas, sobre
si.
have the guardianship of an-
other's expenses.
Tener, 6 llevar a
las
To
ancas.
Tener, 6 llevar a alguno por delante.

Tener a uno agarrado por las narices.
Tener
el
padre alcalde.
support another at one's
expense.
To master or control another's
To lead a
To enjoy
person by the nose.

the protection of a
own
will.
man
in power.
Tener de la oreja.
Tener ventana al cierzo.
Tener a mnos hablar a uno.
Cuando tuvieres un pelo mas que
Pelo a pelo te pela con 61.
Tener voz ajena.
Tener mal pleito.
To have a person's ear.

To be haughty, elated with
Not
61,
yourself.
To
To
defend (as a lawyer).

have a poor case (as to justice
or probable success)
El que mal pleito

a voces lo mete.
No
tiene, d barato,
Cada
modo de matar
Las paredes tienen oidos.
La semana que no tenga

tiene
VieYnes.
boca, no diga a otro,
have no valid answer to a charge
Each one has
own way of man-
his
aging his affairs.

The walls have ears.
Never (the week

no Friday).
One
in
which there
is
should not leave one's "interests
to other people.
sopla.
Tiene pluma.
No saber en donde
To
(not to know how to reply).

has the floor.
pulgas.
Quien
defends a bad cause by
He
la palabra.
cual tiene su
He who
sophistry.
tener por donde respirar.
Tiene
pride.
speak to one.
Avoid lawsuits with one richer than
to deign to
se tiene la casa.
He
has feathered his nest well.
Not
to
know one's duty or profession.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Tener muchas candongas.
Tener una cosa buen 6 mal
presti-
To
To
235
be very
artful.
good or
foresee
from an
evil
affair.
gio.
To
Tener mucho pico.
too much, and to divulge
talk
secrets.
El mal
pajarillo, la
lengua tiene por
An
Tener
Tener
Tener
Tener
To
To
To
To
a uno de su mano.
a
la
mano.
tongue
la
is
like
a two-edged
propitiate a person.
refrain.
have something to do.

have a thing always ready, always
at hand.
To have good or bad luck.
que hacer.
en
evil
sword.
cuchillo.
manga.
Tener buen 6 mal naipe.

Tener el naipe.
Tener un pi6 dentro.
To
To
have the deal (cards).

begin to be successful
to gain a
footing.
Tener sentada
To
la mollera.
have become prudent, or reason-
able.
Tener medido a palmos.
To
Tener
To be
have a practical or exact knowl-
edge of a place.
raices.
Cosa que
tiene
muchos
quilates
de
well grounded.
thing of considerable merit.
merito.
Tener como en
la bolsa
alguna cosa.
To be
quite
certain
of getting
thing.
Tener
la
To
cuesta y las piedras.
Tener 6 traer cola alguna acci6n.

Cada uno tiene su alguacil.
Tener, 6 traer consigo muchas consecuencias un negocio.
^No
have
all
the advantages on one's
own side.
To have consequences.
Every man has his superior.
This
affair will
have many
results.
Have you no eyes?
tiene ojos?
Tener ojo & alguna cosa.

Quien tiene enemigos, no duerma.
To
Quien tiene ganado, no desea mal
Only those whose fortunes are safe

are indifferent to bad harvests.
attend to a thing.
Let him who has enemies be watchful.
ano.
Tener en poco.
Tener precisi6n de hacer
To
To
algo.
Hijo no tenemos, y nombre

mos.
le
pone-
set but little value
on a
thing.
be obliged to do something.
Counting one's chickens before they
are hatched.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
236
Quien
Tener
tiene ovejas, tiene pellcjas.
No
las riendas.
To draw the reins tighter.

To have bespoken or engaged
Tener tratada alguna cosa.
pains,
no
gains.
thing.
iQue mas
tiene
una cosa que otra?
Tener consigo.
No
parte en alguna
tener arte, ni
What difference does it make ?

To have with or about one.
To have nothing to do with the mat-
cosa.
Tener
No
ter.
To
junta, 6 consejo.
tener pr6jimo.
tiene entranas.
Tener
callo
en
hold a meeting.
There
tiene quite.
Tener malos dedos para organista.

Tener el alma parada.
Tener mucho de miserable.
Tener mucha pimienta.
No
No
one thing more than another?
Why
el
To be
To be
To be
To be
To be
He
is
no help
for
it.
incompetent.
mentally indolent.
a miser.
very dear, expensive.
unfeeling, hard-hearted.
has a heart o/ stone.
To have a hard heart.

To be hard-hearted.
To be terrified to apprehend
coraz6n.
Tener un coraz6n de bronce.

el alma entre los dientes.
Tener
ca-
lamity.
No
tener cara para hacer, 6 decir
Not
No tener boca para negar, 6 decir no.

Tener miedo.
Tener malos higados.
Tener verglienza.
Tener mala madera.
No
to
have the courage to do or
say a thing.
alguna cosa.
tener sobre que Dios
le llueva.
Not
to dare to say no.
To be afraid.
To be white-livered, ill-disposed.
To be ashamed.
To be lazy.
To be extremely poor (to have nothing
upon which God's
rain
can
fall).
No
tener
mas que
To
el pellejo.
No
No
tener tras que parar.

tener mas que el dia y la noche.
No
tener uno
mas que
la
capa en
el
No
tener
mas que
To be
very poor (to have nothing

but the day and the night).
To possess nothing but the clothes
one has on.
hombro.
No
be extremely poor (to possess
nothing more than one's skin).

To be absolutely destitute.
su cuerpo gentil.
tener para un bocado.
To
have
no fortune
to
nothing but one's self.

To have no morsel of food.
possess
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
tener tin cuarto.
Tener
No
No
No
No
cuartos, 6 cuatro cuartos.

tener a quien volver la cabeza.
tener casa ni hogar.

tener medios.
tener blanca
6 estar sin blanca.
Tener cara de alejijas.

Tener muchos guayes.
No tener hombre.
El que no tiene buey ni cabra, toda
la noche ara.
Quien pobreza tien, de sus deudos
es desden, y el rico, de serlo, de
237
To be utterly impecunious.
To have plenty of money.
To have neither money nor friends.
To have neither house nor home.
To be destitute of aid or assistance.
To be absolutely penniless.
He
looks half starved.
To
To
labor under
many
afflictions.
have no protector.
Great poverty brings great care.
People disown their poor relations,

but gladly claim their rich ones.
todos es deudo.
No
To have
tener oficio ni beneficio.
neither profession nor prop-
erty.
To be
Tener azar en alguna cosa.
La necesidad
tiene cara de hereje.
Trabajo tiene
a grilles.
Cada
la
zorra cuando
andi
always unfortunate.
Necessity has a hideous aspect.
Only the needy will work for a pittance.
cual tiene sus penas.
Every one has
his
own burdens
to
bear.
To have reason
am compelled
Tener una queja de alguno.

Tengo que hacerlo, mal de mi grado.
Tener trato de gentes.

Tener buen trato.
Tener correa.
To
To
To
to
complain of one.
to
do
it
in spite of
myself.
Tened de
ahi
be accustomed to good
be affable and polite.
bear wit or
society.
raillery calmly.
Stop
To be frank, open, candid.
To have permission to do what one
!
Tener el coraz6n en los

Tener bula para todo.
labios.
likes.
<{Tenemos
Tener
hijo,
6 hija?
el tapial.
Cada semana
tiene su dia santo.
Has
this affair succeeded, or failed ?

(have we a son, or a daughter?).
To have patience ; to rest.
Every cloud has its silver lining (i.e.,
every week has
Tengo
Idstima de la pobre criatura.
its
Sunday).
pity the poor baby, or poor creature.
Tener buen est6mago.

Tener calma.
To bear insults patiently.

To keep one's temper.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
238
To
Tener pecho.
have patience
to
endure with
firmness.
No
tener hiel.
Tener aseguradas las espaldas.

Tener buen 6 mal prestigio de una
To be meek and gentle.

To be safe from injury or annoyance.
To be well or ill inclined toward a
persona.
Tener en
No
person.
esteem.
precio.
tener pelo de tonto.
Tener
Tener
Tener
Tener
Tener
cura.
gana.
gana de fiesta.
gana de rasco.
sus puntas, y collares de alguna ciencia 6 facultad.
Tenerse
tieso,
tene"rselas tiesas.
Tener buen cerca.

Tener andado mucho para alguna
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
be bright, quick, clever.
be curable.
have a mind, an inclination.
provoke another to a quarrel.
be in a playful mood.
know something of a
science.
To be firm in one's own opinion.

To admit of a close examination.
To be well advanced or instructed
cosa.
in
anything.
Tener carne de perro.

Tengo un empeno con V.
To have much fortitude and strength.
Tener
To have a definite purpose.

To be right.
To have no defect.
To keep one within bounds.
To have escaped many perils
sus miras.
Tener raz6n.
No
tener pero.
uno a raya.
Tener
Tener
siete vidas.
have a favor to ask of you.
have seven
To
Tener apego.
i
Que
caidas tiene
Tener sus cinco dedos en
love a thing, or person.
How
la
mano.
(to
lives).
droll
To have
to
be
he
all
is
one's five fingers
fully
{i.e.,
equal to another in
strength).
Tener chispa.
Tener a su favor a uno.
Tiene un alma muy bella.
Tiene un alma como un cantaro, no
sabe hacer mal a nadie.
To be keen, witty.
To have a person on one's
He has a sterling heart.
Tener bien asentada su baza.

Tener en buen estado.
Tener su alma en su cuerpo.
To have a well-established character.

To keep in good order.
To do as one thinks proper.
To have perfect freedom of action.
Tener su alma en sus carnes.

Yo lo tengo de buena mano.
He
a
is
harmless
side.
he would not hurt
fly.
have
it
on good
authority.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To watch to observe.
To spend a pleasant day.
To keep on foot to stand.
To be a good walker.
To have feet (said of one who
Tener vigilancia.
Tener buen dia.
Tenerse en pi.
Tener buenos pies.
Tener
pies.
fast)
Tener
No
pelos.
tener pelos 6 pelillo en la lengua.
Ella tiene
muchas
gracias.
To be intricate, entangled.
To speak one's mind openly.
She has many accomplishments.
a graceful mien ; to be a
To have
Tener pocas barbas.

Tener barbas una noticia.
To
Tener buena garganta.

Tener buen timbre de voz.
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
buen oido.
buenas bigoteras.
vista.
buenos cuartos.
garabato.
buen 6 mal cerca.
runs
Tener buenas barbas.
Tener
Tener
Tener
Tener
Tener
Tener
239
good-looking woman.
be young and inexperienced.
That
is
old news.
be a good singer.
have a good voice.
have a quick ear.
have a pleasing face.
be beautiful or showy.
be well made.
be fascinating.
look well or
ill
from a short
dis-
tance.
No
poderse tener en
pie.
Tener ojos de bitoque.

No tener mas que la armaz6n.
Tener un no s que.
To be too weak' to stand.

To squint.
To be only skin and bone.
To be indisposed without
definite
symptoms.
Tener malas
trazas.
No
tener, 6 no haber apelaci6n.

Tener duende.
To look ill.
To be despaired of in
To be hypochondriac
illness.
;
to
be
rest-
swift
less.
Tener pocas chichas.

Tener pies de mar.
To be very lean and weak.

To be a good sea-boat,
sailer (nau.).
Tener buen sotavento.

Tentar A uno
Tentar
el
las corazas.
vado.
To have sea- room (nau.).

To try one's mettle or courage.
To gauge or try the depth (literally
or metaphorically)
Tentar cerrojos.
To
try all
ways and means
to suc-
ceed.
Tentar
la paciencia.
To
provoke or vex another person.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
240
Puerta abierta
Tentarse
The open door tempts
santo tienta.
al
To
la ropa.
the saint.
hesitate before saying or doing
a thing.
Traer, tener, 6 esta la cuerda tirante.
To use evasions to hesitate.

To dye in the yarn.
To cross the breed.
To cut one's face across.
To strike with a stick.
To be very severe.
Quien no
He who
Tentar
la ropa.
Tenir en rama.
Terciar 6 cruzar
Terciar
la cara.
Terciar
el
las castas.
bast6n, 6 el palo.
trae soga,
de sed
se ahoga.
is
gencies
Tesar
To
To
To
To
las jarcias.
Tesar un cabo.
Tirar
como
a real de enemigo.
Tirar a deguello.
not prepared for
may come
all
emer-
to grief.
set up the shrouds (nau.).

haul taut a rope (nau.).
ruin a person or thing.
endeavor to destroy or injure
person.
Tirarse en tierra, 6 a tierra.
Tirar un canonazo.
Tirar a curena rasa.

Tirar a uno de la capa.
Tirar el abanico, 6 la espada.
Tirar largo, 6 por lo
largo,
6 de
To
To
To
To
To
To
throw one's
fire
fire
on the ground.
warn one of danger.

draw the sword.
be extravagant in word or deed
to
largo.
self
a gun.
at random.
spend
lavishly.
Tirar la barra.
To spend extravagantly.
To kick to rebel.
To be insane.
To sell as dearly as possible.
To try to obtain something.
Tira y
Blowing hot and blowing cold (a
Tirar
la calle.
a.
Tirar coces.
Tirar piedras.
Tirar alguno la barra.
afloja.
boy's play).
To draw back to restrain.

To throw overboard.
To draw a salary.
Tirar las riendas.
Tirar a la mar.
Tirar sueldo.
Take
Turn
Tire V. este camino.
Tire V. a
la
derecha.
Tirar un peri6dico.
todo
tirar,
6 a mas
tirar.
Tirarse de una oreja y
no alcanzarse
la otra.
No
tirar, 6 ir a ninguna banda.

El enfermo va tirando.
To
To
this road.
to the right.
print a newspaper.
the utmost
To be
in great
at most.
doubt
to
be disap-
pointed.
Not
The
to
make any
invalid
is
difference.
puiimg through.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To warn a person lest he fall.

To hint to indicate by hints of
whom we speak.
To argue or dispute obstinately.
To have two strings to one's bow.
Tirar a uno de la capa.

Tirar a ventana senalada.
Tirarse los bonetes.
Tirar a dos chitas.
La cabra siempre
tira al
monte.
amarras y escotas.
las
man's acts show what he
To
To
Tirar al vuelo.
Tiramollar
241
is.
shoot a bird on the wing.

overhaul the sheets and tacks
(nau.).
To
To
Tiramollar un aparejo.
Tocar de cerca algun asunto.
overhaul the tackle (nau.).
have a complete knowledge of a
subject.
Tocar de cerca alguna

Tocar de cerca.
Tocar en lo vivo.
To be interested or concerned.
To be nearly related.
To hurt one's feelings to wound
cosa.
to
the quick.
Lo que
lo
te
ha tocado por
tengas por
suerte,
no
fuerte.
One
Tocar a
To
No
Not
la puerta.
tocar pelota.
has no right to pride one's self
on good luck.
rap at the door.
to touch the root of the
diffi-
culty.
Tocar
Tocar
Tocar
Tocar
Tocar
Tocar
Tocar
6 zurrar
la
pampana.
la solfa
a alguno.
en una
tecla.
a laudes.
6 cantar a primera vista.

el mochuelo a alguno.
a alguno.
Tocar a vuelo las campanas.
To threaten chastisement.
To cudgel or flog one.
To move cautiously in any
To praise one's self.
To play or sing at sight.
Always
to get the worst of
To tempt
To ring a
;
business.
a thing.
to stimulate.
peal of bells simultane-
ously.
To sound the tocsin.

To ring the bell at mass,
Tocar a rebato.
Tocar a Sdnctus.
before the
canon.
Tocarle a uno
Tocar de
Tocar en
la china.
oro.
lo vivo.
Tocar a alguno en
la herida.
To
To
To
To
fall
gild (in architecture).
hurt one's feelings.
touch upon a subject about which
one
No
tocar al pelo de la ropa.

Al hijo del rico no le toques el vestido.
to one's lot.
is
very sensitive.
To do no injury at all.
The rich are impatient
of obstacles.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
242
No
Not
tocar pito.
Tocar
have a share
to
pieza.
Tocar generala, 6 a
las
discuss a subject.
beat of the drum which calls to
armas.
arms
(mil.).
To beat the reveille (mil.).

To give the signal for attack (mil.).
To sound a retreat (mil.).
To touch at a port (nau.).
To strike the bell for changing watch
Tocar la diana.
Tocar a degiiello.
Tocar la retirada.
Tocar en un puerto.
Tocar d mudar
a thing.
in
To
la guardia,
(nau.).
Tocar a
la
To
bomba.
strike the bell for
pumping
ship
(nau.).
The
The
Las velas tocan.
sails are filling (nau.).

ship has struck aground (nau.).
take to heart.
El barco ha tocado.
To
To take part with
To gather strength.
To learn by heart.
To reflect, deliberate.
To take a doctor's degree.
To feel the pulse to sound
Tomar a pechos.
Tomar partido por
Tomar fuerzas.
Tomar de cabeza, 6 de memoria.
Tomar acuerdos.
Tomar la borla.
Tomar el pulso.
.
No
To
To
a pulso.
el paso ; 6
tomar en boca
el portante.
;
6 en
la
son
Tomar
Tomar
artfully.
judge of weight by lifting.

walk fast ; to stride.
Not
boca.
a per-
to
mention a thing
not to mur-
mur, or slander.
Tomar la manana.
Tomar de atras el agua.
To
To
To
Tomar
To
Tomarse
la licencia.
las
take the liberty of doing.

rise
very early.
begin to tell a thing from the
very beginning.
cover a building during
aguas.
its
con-
struction.
i
Le tomo a V.
la palabra
Tomar la manta.
Tomar a alguno las medidas.
Tomar la muerte a alguno.
Tomar 6 coger la ocasi6n por
los
take you at your word
To undergo salivation.
To form an opinion of one.
To die a natural death.
To take time by the forelock.
cabellos.
Tomar
el asiento,
el lugar, la
cha.
Tomar
las
cosas con rigor.
dere-
To
take the post of honor ; to show

one's authority.
To take literally ; to follow the letter.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
1
Mas
vale
un toma que dos
te
dare
243
bird in the
hand
worth two
is
in
the bush.
Tomar la voz.
Tomar lengiia, voz, 6 senas.
Tomar la Iecci6n.
Tomar por escrito.
Tomar el chorrillo.
Tomar el cielo con las manos.
To continue a subject.
To seek information.
To hear a recitation.
To make a note of a thing.
To fall into a habit.
To be transported with joy,
Tomar pi.
anger.
To take root in a place
lish one's self.
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
To
To
To
To
To
To
aires.
el aire.
el fresco.
el sol.
pipa.
la puerta.
take a walk.
take the
las
Tomar
huelga.
el aire
a una
air.
expose one's self to the sun.

take one's hat and go away.
to
res.
de Villadiego.
be
of
out
get away; to go
To run away.
To follow the
To make a
el trote.
to estab-
rusticate.
house
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
grief, or
the
off.
scent (said of dogs)

precipitate
flight
or
escape.
Tomarle a uno
Tomar
To pant to stop for rest.

To be overcome by sleep.
To change one's condition
;
el sueiio.
estado.
marry
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
partido.
partido de
to
become a clergyman.
To take one'^ stand.

To join a party to take
To take the part of
su puesto.
el
or
a resolution.
.
to
make
up one's mind.
Tomar a cuestas, 6
Tomar una obra.
Tomar prestado.
Tomar perfiles.
sobre
si.
To
To
To
To
take charge of ...

take charge of a work.
borrow.
trace a drawing
to
make
r.n
outline.
Tornado por oficio.

Tomar de mas alto alguna
cosa.
To do a thing frequently.
To get nearer to the bottom
thing.
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
las
duras con
cuerpo.
entre manos.
las
maduras.
To take things as they come.

To augment or increase.
To take in hand.
of a
SPANISH IDIOMS.
244
Se tomaron
las
They took hold of each
manos.
other's
hands.
To examine accounts.
To take something on account.
To undertake a thing with too much
Tomar cuentas.
Tomar a cuenta.
Tomar a pechos.
zeal.
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
a alguno
las
medidas.
color las frutas.

calor.
To form an opinion of a person.

To ripen.
To become warm to push an affair
;
warmly.
Tomarse la muerte 6
mano.
Tomarse con Dios.
mal por su
el
To
imperil one's
fare against
To
las
armas.
armas contra alguno.

algo por donde quema.
las
health, or wel-
persist in wrong-doing, without
God.
fear of
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
life,
good advice.
To take up arms (mil.).

To declare one's self against another.
To take anything in the worst sense
to misconstrue.
Tomar
Toma
mujer.
casa con hogar, y mujer que
sepa
hilar.
Tomar
asa 6
asillas
de alguna cosa.
To
marry.
and a thrifty wife

and wealth and a
cheerful hearth
make
health
happy
life.
To
seize a pretext for
doing some-
thing.
Tomar conocimiento de
Tomar algo por distribuci6n.
Tomar un numero de otro.
.
To take cognizance of ...

To act from habit or custom.
To subtract one number from
an-
other.
Tomar
la delantera.
Tomarse
mano.
la
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
rabano por
el
muerte 6
el
mal por su
las hojas.
tiempo.
el hilo.
To
To
excel another.
injure one's self.
To put the cart before the

To procrastinate.
To resume the discourse
horse.
to take
up the thread.
Tomar
Tomar
la taba.
consejo, dictamen, 6 parecer.
To give loose to one's tongue.

To consult with another; to
advice.
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
algo por conocido.

la
medida.
el
medio, 6
los
medios.
To
To
To
take a thing for granted.
measure.
take measures.
take
SPANISH IDIOMS.
To obtain practice.
To impersonate to feign.
To become afraid.
To surprise to take unawares.
To become a nun.
Tomar platica.
Tomar figura, 6 traza.
Tomar temor.
Tomar por sorpresa.
Tomar el velo.
Arbol de buen
natio,
toma un palmo
y paga cinco.
Tomar a merced a alguno.
Tomar raz6n.
Tomar de mas
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good
is
tree occupies
little
land,
and
very valuable.
To take pity on a person.

To register to take a memorandum.
To tell the story of a thing from its
;
una
alto
historia.
very beginning.
take up the defence of another.
Tomar 6 salir a la demanda.

Tomar el trabajo, 6 tanto trabajo.
To
To
Tomar una
ing another.
To take a thing on
cosa a prueba.
Tomarse con alguno.
Tomar mosca.
Tomar a uno
entre
cejas,
6 entre
take trouble for the sake of help-
To
To
To
trial.
pick a quarrel with one.

take offence.
take a dislike to a person.
dientes.
Tomar 6 traer a uno entre

Tomar rabia, 6 c6lera.
Tomarse de
Tomar
Tomar
Tomar
dientes.
c61era.
To bear ill will toward

To become angry.
To fly into a passion.
a person.
To become angry to bear malice.

To obtain satisfaction, revenge.
To take an observation of the stars
tema.
satisfacci6n.
la estrella.
(nau.).
Tomar viento.
Tomar rizos.
Tomar rizos en la mesana.
Tomar puerto.
Tomar por avante.
Tomar tierra.
To trim the sails to the wind (nau.).

To take in reefs (nau.).
To balance the mizzen (nau.).
To get into port (nau.).
To work to windward (nau.).
To make the land (nau.).
La
The
dificultad topa
Tope donde tope
en esto.
difficulty consists in this.
Strike
Topaste en la silla, por acd

Torcer las narices.
tia.
where
it
may
Either avoid peril, or meet it bravely.

To turn up the nose ; to express
disgust.
Torcer
la Have.
Torcer
la
cabeza.
Torcer, trocar, 6
mudar
las palabras.
To
To
To
turn the key
to lock.
get sick.
distort the meaning of another's
words.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
246
To
To
Tornar cabeza a alguna cosa.

Tornar por
A torna pe6n, 6 a torna yunta.

Tornarse 6 volverse el sueno
del
perro, 6 volverse el sueno al reves.
Tornar 6 volver
Trabajar atrozmente.
la
defend
to
be attentive.
to protect.
Mutually and reciprocally.

fail of success after much en-
To
deavor.
To turn a cold shoulder.

To work to excess.
To train a horse.
las espaldas.
Trabajar un caballo.
La ventura de la barca, a
consider
mocedad
trabajada, y a la vejez quemada.

Trabajar por la arboladura.
Unfortunate from beginning to end.
The
straining of the rigging in a
storm (nau.).
To
To
To
To
To
To
Trabar ejecuci6n.
Trabarse de palabras.
Trabar conocimiento.
Trabar conversacidn.
Trabar amistad.
Trabarse
la lengua.
distrain
to seize judicially.
become angry
in
a dispute.
scrape acquaintance.
engage in conversation.
become friends.
stammer to speak with
;
hesita-
tion.
Trabar
platica.
Trabar
batalla.
El buey traba
el
arado,
mas no de
su grado.
Traer d la mano.
To fetch or carry.
To have something in hand.
To keep a thing carefully in
Traer una cosa entre manos.

Traer
al
To chatter together.
To combat or fight.
Work is not always pleasure.
ojo alguna cosa.
sight
impress a thing upon one's

mind.
to
Traer entre
To
ojos.
watch a person
not
Traer una cosa escrita en
la frente.
whom we do
trust.
To show
one's feelings or thoughts
in one's face.
To
To
be
Traer consigo.
Trdigalo V. consigo.
To
carry along with one.
Traer medias de seda.
To wear silk stockings.

To keep one in continual
Traer
la
barba sobre
el
hombro.
Bring him with you.
Traer d alguno de aqui para

acd para alia.
I
Que
aires le traen a V.
alert, watchful, careful.
have a person or thing on one's

mind.
Traer delante.
alii,
6 de
por acd ?
What good wind
motion.
brings you here
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Traer a cuento.
To
Traer a consecuencia.
To
247
turn the conversation to a desired
point.
El ano de
la sierra,
no
le traiga
Dios
hills is bad for the valleys.

Those who live comfortably
la tierra.
Buena
place a thing to advantage
vida, arrugas trae.
to
say something pertinent.

The season which is good for the
live
long.
Traer un pleito con alguno.

Traer malas cartas; 6 venir
con
malas cartas.
To have a lawsuit against any one.

To be without documents needful
to assert
Traer autoridades.
Traer siempre en la boca alguna cosa.

Traer en bocas 6 lenguas.
Traer a mal traer.
Traer y llevar cuentos.
Traer el redopelo.
a claim.
To cite authority.
To be always harping on something.
To censure, or speak ill of a person.
To distrust, trouble, vex.
To be a tale-bearer.
To vex to treat with scant cere;
mony.
Traer a
la
To compel one
melena.
to
act against his
will.
Tratar a baqueta a alguno.

Tartar a uno como un perro.
To distress one by overwork.

To handle the sword dexterously.
To use too much rigor.
To be the ruin of a person.
To allow one's self to be deceived.
To cut the hair unevenly.
To meditate to pray.
To be truthful.
To use billingsgate.
To deal by wholesale.
To deal in any branch of commerce.
To have intercourse with one.
To be resolved upon doing a thing.
To indulge in selfish luxuries.
To treat a person particularly well.
To treat one severely or disdainfully.
To treat a person like a dog.
Por aqui
He
Traer a uno
Traer bien
al retortero.
la
Traer 6 tener
espada.
la
cuerda
tirante.
Traer perdido a alguno.

Tragar el anzuelo, 6 la pildora.
Trasquilar a cruces.
Tratar con Dios.
Tratar verdad.
como unas
Tratarse
verduleras.
Tratar en grueso ; 6 vender por mayor.

Tratar en alguna rama de comercio.
Tratar con alguno.

Tratar de hacer alguna cosa.
Tratarse como cuerpo de rey.
Tratar
como cuerpo
trastejan.
del rey.
must be concealed hereabout
(debtors avoiding their creditors).
Trincar los cabos.

Trincar
las puertas.
To bend the cables (nau.).

To bar in the portlids (nau.).
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SJ'.-hVIS//
Trocar
IDIOMS.
To
los frenos.
displace things.
lawsuit ruined
El pleito le acab6 de tronar completamente.
The
Tropezar en una china.
To
him completely.
stumble over pebbles
be
(to
easily thwarted).
Tropezar en
tin
To make mountains
garbanzo.
of molehills.
Tropece y
di
un baquetazo.
I tripped,
and
fell
violently.
Sin tropezar en barras.
Inconsiderably.
Tropezar en las rres.

Untar 6 lavar el casco, 6
To be intoxicated.
To flatter a person.
los cascos
a una.
To bribe.
To exercise one's own right.
To act in an underhand way.
To give vent to one's feelings.
To talk too much.
Good God bless me
God preserve you
Untar el carro, 6 las manos.

Usar de su derecho.
Usar de ardides.
Vaciar
el costal.
como
Vaciarse
costal.
Valgame Dios
Valgate Dios
Vale Dios
Mas
vale vergiienza en cara que
cilia
Mas
mancha en
mancilla en
Vale
man-
en coraz6n.
vale
la frente,
que
coraz6n.
el
pena de
la
Fortunately.
Better the shame of confessing than
remorse in concealing.
Better be ugly and good, rather than
handsome and bad.
To be worth
the
of
trouble
worth while.
Happen what may
Valga lo que valiere.

Vale lo que pesa.
He
Fulano vale por muchos.

Vale tanto
Eso
come what
will.
worth his weight in gold.

Such an one has much money.
como plata.
como decir
vale tanto
is
To be
.
That
worth
To be
Valer un ojo de la cara.
as
is
its
much
weight in
as to say
silver.
.
as precious as the apple of
one's eye.
Mas
vale,
6 mas valiera
si
...
It is better,
or
it
would be
better.
if...
En
el
campo de Barahona mas
vale
mala capa que buena azcona.
A como
No
No
vale
la
vale sus orejas llenas
crisma.
de agua.
in the use of
give authority, or support.
It is
vale la fanega ?
nada fuera de
must be judicious
what we have.
To
Hacer valer.
Eso vale su precio.
I
We
worth
its
price.
What
is it
He
He
is
a worthless fellow.
is
a good-for-nothing.
worth per bushel?
SPANISH IDIOMS.
No
valer
un
To be
diablo.
249
very despicable
not worth
an execration.
No
No
Not
Not
poderse valer con alguno.

valer.
poderse
Eso no vale gran cosa.

vale una chita ; 6 no
be able to manage a person.
to
know how
to help one's self;
be incapable.
to
No
to
That
se
me da
is good for little.

do not care a straw.
dos chitas.
Vale
No
No
No
No
mnos
vale
vale
que una vedija de lana.

un cornado, 6 un ardite.
un bledo, 6 un pito.
vale nada.
las escotas.
mi que
las
not worth a shred of wool.

not worth a farthing, or a doit.
not worth a rush.
It is
for nothing.
quite worthless.
watch by one's arms.
It is
importa, no vale un caracol.

Velar las annas.
Velar
It is
It is
good
It is
To
To
stand by the sheets (nau.).

is no
deceiving those
who
There
vendo.
know.
El que nos vendi6
No
vendas
He who
el galgo.
la piel
del oso, antes de
very
not
sold us the
Do
sell
(i.e.,
the
of).
the bear's skin
have killed him
haberlo muerto.
dog
man we spoke
your chickens
till
you
do not count
before
they are
hatched.
Vender cara
Vender
To
la vida.
one's
sell
life
desperately.
To be ostentatious
juncias.
dearly;
to
to boast of
fight
what
one has not.
To
Vender humos.
smoke
sell
(to
trade on pre-
tended influence).
Vender palabras 6 amistad.

Vender alguna noticia, 6 nueva.
De
fuera vendra quien de casa nos
To deceive by fair words.

To tell a piece of news.
To assume authority in another
per-
son's house.
echara.
Vender gato por
To
liebre.
sell
a cat for a hare (to deceive

a thing sold).
in the quality of
Vender
al
To
contado.
la vuelta
6 a
la vuelta lo
tinto.
venden
where
they will believe you

of denial or incre-
(expression
dulity)
Vender a plazo.
Vender por mayor.
cash.
sell for
Go
To
To
sell
on
sell at
credit.
wholesale.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
250
Vender al pormenor, 6 d destajo.

Vender bien sus agujetas.
El buen pafio en el area se vende.
To
To
sell at retail.
sell at
Good
a good
cloth
case
is
profit.
sold while
still
in the
valuable goods require no
puffs.
Vender hasta la camisa.

Vender al quitar.
To
To
Vender
To retail wine.
To make one's self cheap.
To be difficult of access.
To betray a person.
To be or appear very robust.
To suit or fit exactly.
everything.
with the privilege of repurchase.
ramo.
al
Venderse barato.
Venderse caro.
Vender a una persona.

Vender salud.
Venir clavada, 6 pintada, una cosa
a otra.
Me
viene de molde.
Esa chaqueta no me viene.
quien
le
venga
el
guante, que
sell
sell
It fits
se lo
me
like
a glove.
This jacket does not
fit
If the
on.
cap
fits,
put
it
me.
plante.
No
viene
el
son con
la castaneta.
The
castanets
do not
click (said of
persons or things not agreeing).
Venirse a los ojos.
Vengamos
al caso.
El mal viene con malos aparatos.

De Dios te venga el remedio.
Venir a me'nos.
To show
in one's eyes ; to betray by

one's glances.
Let us come to the point.
The
patient shows
God only
To decay
bad symptoms.
can cure you.

to decline.
Venirse durnu'endo.
Things which wax and wane.

To be falling asleep.
Venirse d buenas.
To
Tras
Experience will bring wisdom.

I come from my vineyards (i.e.,
Cosas que van y vienen.
De
los afios viene el seso.
mis vinas vengo.
yield
to submit.
had no hand
Con
quien vengo, vengo.

Bien vengas mal, si vienes solo.
Venga
<;
lo
que
viniere.
que viene eso ?
am
constant to
Si a
mano
viene.
my
Misfortunes seldom
friend.
come
singly.
Come what will happen what may.

To what purpose is that? What
;
does
Venir pi con bola.
Vengo en ello.
in the affair).
it
amount
Neither too
I
agree to that.
Perhaps.
to ?
much nor
too
little.
SPANISH
Venir a
la
To be
romana.
En
perilla.
Venir a pelo.
Viene como pedrada en ojo de boti-
To
instant.
just at the right time.
inopportunely
to be un-
awkward
time.
Since you are here.
Such an one came unexpectedly.

receives gifts in great numbers.
Fulano vino de antuvi6n,
He
vienen los regalos.

se viene se va.
cargas
arrive at an
you do not come.

Besides coming late
Ya que has venido.
Como
an
If
vinieres.
Tras de venir tarde
in
in the nick of time.
welcome.
Venir a deshora.
no
as .Peter comes.
To come
To come
To come
To come
cario.
Si
251
of just weight.
As soon
cuanto venga Pedro.

Venir en un tris.
Venir de
IDIOAfS.
le
Lightly come, lightly go.
Venir angosto.
Venir el cuervo.
manos en
Venir, 6 estar, con las
el
To fall short of one's expectations.

To receive repeated relief or succor.
To be idle to have nothing to do.
;
seno.
a uno
Venirle
mano
la
alguna
To
get something without exertion.
He
obtained the place.
cosa.
Vino d conseguir
la plaza.
Venir alguno contra su palabra, 6
To attain an object accidentally.

To obtain unexpected advantages.
To usurp the fruit of another's labor.
To act treacherously.
To break one's promise.
embargarse de su palabra.
El se mete en lo que no le va, ni lo
He
Venir rodado.
Venirse
la
caza a
las
manos.
Venir con sus manos lavadas.

Venir de
falsete.
Venirse abajo.
Venir a las manos.
Venir
muy
Cuando
meddles
in
what does not con-
cern him.
viene.
ancho.
viene el bien,
mtelo en
tu
To ruin one's self.

To come to blows.
To be in abundance.
When good fortune
haste to let her
casa.
To
Venir en conocimiento.
some knowledge of
become acquainted with
acquire
to
To wish to desire.
To make an impertinent request.
To bring an unfavorable answer.
Venir en coraz6n.
Venirse con buena musica.
Venir con mal recado.
Malo vendra que bueno me
make
knocks,
in.
hard.
We
are ready to complain of

we see what real trouble
till
trifles
is.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
252
Lo que no
viene d la boda, no viene
Secure the dower before the mar-
a toda hora.
riage takes place.
Al llamado del que le piensa, viene

el buey d la melena.
It
De
The
Dios viene
el bien,
y de
las
abe-
vienen
polvos
aquellos
estos
from God, through

it may come.
/
is
blessing
Present sufferings are the result of
lodos.
past errors.
Venirse d
To
boca.
la
El vino se vuelve.
De
are
us.
whatever means
jas la miel.
De
who
easy to obey those
is
kind to
fuera vendrd quien de casa nos
taste unpleasantly.
The wine turns sour.

One should not assume
authority in
the house of another.
echard.
Ventar d rachas.
To break or transgress
To rain very heavily.
Do not despair times
To fall to the ground.
To blow furiously.
To blow in gusts.
Ventear
It
Venir contra alguna ley 6 precepto.

Venirse el cielo abajo.
tiempo viene.
Tiempo
tras
Venirse
al suelo.
Ventar bramando.
fresco del nordoeste.
muy
a law or
will
rule.
change.
blows very fresh from the northwest.
Dios ve
Ya
Dios y veamonos
las
se ve
Farewell
trampas
ya entiendo
God
!
;
Verse entre, 6 en
las astas del toro.
we
Yes, forsooth
To
las orejas del lobo.
Ver
el pleito
meet
!
again.
(a warning) .
understand
find one's self
of the bull
Ver
shall
sees the fraud
between the horns
to be in the greatest
danger.
see the ears of the wolf; to be
To
in great danger.
mal parado.
Verse entre la espada y la pared.
ya no
Si te vi,
i
A
A
mas ver
ver
me
acuerdo.
To see a thing in great

To be surrounded by
danger, cornered, driven to the wall.
Out of
sight,
Farewell
out of mind.
Let us see
danger.
is it
not so ?
Al ver.
At
sight.
In
my
No
No
To show anything.
To be short-sighted.
To be very short-sighted
mi ver.
Dar a ver.
ver siete sobre un asno.
ver gota.
opinion.
sufficient light for seeing.
Ver por
vista
de
ojos.
To
see with one's
own
eyes.
to lack
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Ve mas que un
No
He
He
aguila.
ve pizca.
Ver con muchos ojos.

El amor y la f en las obras
is
253
eagle-eyed.
cannot see at
all.
To
se ve.
observe very carefully.

Love and faith show themselves in
deeds.
Ver venir.
Es de ver ; 6
"To see what one is driving

It is worth notice.
es para ver.
To
Verse negro.
be
afflicted,
at.
embarrassed
to see
through dark spectacles.

V.
le
No
Ver
Ver
You
vera despabilarse.
bien
He
la vi6.
tierra
him brighten up.

her.
To travel to see the world.

To have little or no knowledge
ver mundo.
el cielo
will see
had scarcely seen

;
por embudo.
of
the world.
Ver
el
Ver y
To know
juego mal parado.

creer.
To
To
Verse pobre.
Ver a hurtadillas.
Ya
that a business
bad
in
is
condition, going on ill.

To believe only what one sees.
te veo, besugo,
que
tienes el ojo
be reduced to poverty.
look over some one's shoulders.
see through your intention.
claro.
To kill two birds with one stone.

To give a sudden, sharp blow.
To detest any one.
To have been grossly insulted.
To have a crow to pluck with any
Por atun y ver al duque.

Hacer ver a uno las estrellas.
No poder ver a alguno.

No verse de polvo.
Verse con alguno.
one.
i
Ya nos veremos
Ojos que
las caras
vieron
le
ir,
no
have a bone to pick with you

An opportunity lost never returns.
I
le
veran
venir.
Al aleluya nos veremos

Verse y desearse.
We
To
shall see
have
a great difficulty in
doing a
thing.
Ver
No
To
visiones.
te veras
en ese espejo.
build castles in the
You will not
air.
see yourself in this mir-
ror (you will not succeed).
Verse alguno en calzas prietas.

Verse en ello.
Ver
Ver
Ver
el cielo abierto.
el pleito.
el pleito
mal parado.
To
To
To
To
To
be in great embarrassment.
consider ; to weigh mentally.
see a great opportunity.
look into
see the
to consider a case.
weak
points of a case.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
254
Harina alabada, no
vea suegra
te la
Do
ni cufiada.
not show your faults to your
rivals.
Hacienda, tu dueno
te vea.
It
is
own
wise to look after one's
interests.
Al
freir
de
You will
los huevos, lo veris.
regret your
you see
Ano de
brevas nunca
Cuando
la
When
le veas.
early figs are abundant, other
crops often
barba del vecino veas pe-
echa
lar,
la
Vestir bien.
Aunque
mona
viste,
fail.
see your neighbors suffer
la calle lo
He who
borrowed
wears
plumes
risks exposure.
mona
la
en
When you
from public calamities, you must

not expect to escape yourself.
To be well dressed.
tuya a remojar.
Al que de ajeno se
desnudan.
bad deeds when
their consequences.
se vista de seda,
se queda.
Desnudar un Santo para
vestir
Dress a
monkey
as
you
will,
re-
it
mains a monkey still.

To rob Peter to pay Paul.
otro.
The sky was overcast.

The tree covers itself with
El cielo se visti6 de nubes.

El arbol se viste de hojas.
flowers.
I>a
primavera viste los campos.

Al reves me la vesti, y andere asi.
Spring clothes the
Vestir las armas.
To arm one's self for the fight.

To carry on a suit according to
To get drunk.
Vestir
el
Vestirse
As
proceso.
una turca
6 tener una turca.
Vibra sus rayos el sol.

Vincula sus deseos en
The
el
logro de
tal
objecto.
Vira
Vira
began
way,
I shall
go on
cherrily
Virar el cable.
(nau.).
To haul taut (nau.).
avante.
Virar de bordo en redondo.
Visitar los altares.
To
To
Vivir bien, que Dios es Dios.
pious purpose).
Live righteously ; God
Virar, 6 virada,
Vive Dios
de bordo.
at-
(nau.).
Virar por las aguas de otro bajel.
tomando por
law.
heave ahead, or astern (nau.).

heave at the capstan (nau.).
To work to windward (nau.).

To stand to leeward (nau.).
To tack in the wake of another
Virar de bordo
so.
sun's rays quiver.
Heave
this
His desires are bounded by the

tainment of such an object.
To
To
Virar para proa, 6 para popa.

Virar el cabrestante.
i
fields.
go about (nau.)
each altar (for
before
pray
tack, or
God
is
my
witness
ship
will
some
guard you.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
;
Ojala que
Vivir en la
el
viva
memoria de
sus concui-
God grant he may live

To live in the memory
dadanos.
To
To
To
Vivir 6 proceder con compas.

Vivir y vivamos.
Bueno es vivir para ver.
Si
como un
quieres
of his fellow-
citizens.
Vivir de sus rentas.
Vive
255
sano,
or act discreetly.
upon one's income.
live
and
live
let live.
Live and learn.
To
patriarca.
vivir
live
hazte
viejo
live like
a patriarch (at ease).
you would be
If
healthful, live pru-
dently while young.

To live too fast.
temprano.
Vivir apresuradamente.
Vivir con regalo.
Viva quien vence.

Vivir de milagros.
To live in luxury, in ease, abundance.

To live luxuriously, ostentatiously.
To play the sycophant.
To survive by a miracle, in spite of
Vivir rodeado de satisfacciones.
To
Vivir en grande, 6 a lo grande.
difficulties
possess
wish
Viva V. mil anos, o muchos anos

vivas, vina de la que
!
Casa en que
am
To
Vive de su trabajo.
Vivir por sus manos.
He
Vivir de invenciones.
To
To
Quien vive ?
Vocear a un bajel.
To
el
very
Landed
Vivir descuidado de algo.
La burla
everything one
could
for.
much
obliged to you.
or property,
security,
is
better than any other.
bebas.
Vol6
or dangers.
61.
golondrino.
al hilo
Volar
la
Volar
las escotinas
live
live
Who
se volvi6 contra
Volar
be unprepared for a thing.

lives by the sweat of his brow.
del viento.
mina.
de juanetes.
by the labor of one's hands.

by tricks and cunning.
goes there ?
a ship (nau.).
hail
The
The
jest
rebounded upon himself.
bird has
flown ; the prisoner

has escaped.
To fly in the direction of the wind.
To
To
spring a mine (mil.).

let
fly the
top-gallant
sheets
(nau.).
Vomitar sangre.
Vomitar veneno.
Hacer vomitar.
Volver
Volver
la hoja.
las tornas.
Volver a
la carga.
To
To
To
To
boast of nobility and parentage.

utter insults
force
one
and blasphemies.
to disclose a secret.
turn over a
new
leaf; to
change
one's proceedings.
To return a favor ; to compensate.
To return to the charge ; to insist.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
256
turn the tables or scales.
Volver lo de arriba abajo.
To
To
To
To
Volverse la albarda a la barriga.
To
turn upside
Volverse
la tortilla.
Volver a
la
Volver a
las
senda del deber.

andadas.
return to a sense of one's duties.
same kind of
return to the
turn upside down

order of things.
down
life.
to invert the
to be frus-
trated in one's wishes or expectations.
Volver
las injurias.
Volverla
al
cuerpo.
Le ha vuelto a coger la gota.
El barco se volvi6 patas arriba.
Volver
la cara.
Volver
la
No
cara al enemigo.
volver la cara atras.
Volver
atras.
Volverse
injuri-
osas.
To rally and face the enemy again.

To pursue with spirit.
To come back to return.
To flinch to retract to unsay.
To retort to return abusive lan;
guage.
Volver a
Volver
return injury for injury.
The gout has returned upon him.

The vessel was capsized.
To face about.
cara las palabras
la
return evil for evil.
atras.
Volver a
To
To
la
cara alguna cosa.
el rostro.
Volverla
al
Volver pies
To return a thing with contempt.

To evade to cut an acquaintance.
To revenge.
To withdraw from an enterprise to
;
cuerpo.
atras.
run away.
Volver casaca.
Mandar
volver
Volver
el
hopo.
Volver
el
saludo.
Volver
la puerta.
6 hacer volver.
Volver los ojos.
To become a turncoat.
To call one back to recall.
To escape to run away.
To return a salute or bow.
To shut the door.
To look to another for help
;
cross the eyes
to
to turn the atten-
tion.
Volver a empezar de nuevo.

El volvi6 a hablar.
Volver a coger el cabo.
Volver a la misma canci6n.
Volverse loco.
Volve'rsele la
cabeza a alguno.
To
begin to speak.
He rejoined.
To resume the
To tell
To be
thread of a discourse.
the old story.
deranged, crazed, overcome

with joy.
To become
crazy,
giddy;
to lose
one's senses.
Hay
para volverse loco.
That would make one go mad.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Volver a uno loco.
Volver a uno tonto.
Volver en su acuerdo
6 volver en
si.
un volver de cabeza, 6 a vuelta de
257
To confound one with arguments.

To turn one's head.
To recover one's reason.
In the twinkling of an eye.
cabeza.
Volver de rabo.
To
Ellos lo volveran d negar.
They
Volver ciego.
Volverse ciego, sordo, cojo.
Volver por si.
To strike blind.
To become blind, deaf, lame.
To defend one's self.
To reflect on one's self; to make
Volver sobre
si.
turn out contrary to expectation.

will
deny
up one's
Volver
alma
el
al
To
cuerpo.
it
again.
losses.
regain courage
to
become
tran-
quillized.
Volverse contra alguno.
To
To
Ya no veo
Volver
turn a cold shoulder to any one.

turn against some one ; to persecute one.
las espaldas.
la
hora de volver a mi
country.
To revive a
patria.
Volver
las
nueces
long anxiously to
al cdntaro.
supposed
to
Al cabo de los anos mil, vuelve

agua por do solia ir ; 6 torna
agua a su
el
el
Time
return
to
my
or argument
be already settled;
dispute
to
harp upon a subject.

brings old customs
round
again.
cubil.
puerta cerrada,
el
diablo se vuelve.
If the
door
is
shut, the devil turns
away.
En
area de avariento,
el
diablo yace
dentro.
The
devil lurks in the strong
box of
the miser.
Zafarse de alguna cosa.

Zafarse de los bajos, 6 los bancos.
Zurcir voluntades.
Zurrar
la
badana.
Zurrar
la
pavana.
To
To
To
To
To
get rid of anything.

get clear of the shoals (nau.).
unite ; to join issue.
dress a sheepskin.
personal chastisement.
inflict
SPANISH IDIOMS.
258
IDIOMS WITHOUT VERBS.

Abajo esta 6 aquella ley
Abatimiento del rumbo.
;
Ablanda breva
Down
The
6 ablanda higos.
with this or that law
way of the ship
lee
(nau.).
useless person.
En abreviatura.
De cuando aca ?
<;
Since
Sin mas aca, ni mas alia.

Acad^mico de numero.
One
Briefly
expeditiously.
when?
Without more ado.
of the appointed number of
academicians.
Caro como aceite de aparicio.

Acepci6n de personas.
Excessively dear.
Favoritism.
De
Unanimously by common consent.

Remonstrances from states of the
acuerdo.
Acuerdos del reino.
realm.
For adarmes.
Very
A buen adquiridor, buen expendedor.
After a gatherer comes a scatterer.

The furling of the sails (nau.).
Aferramiento de
Aguas
las velas.
Neap tide.
Of little or no importance.
chifles.
De agua
y lana.
Aguador del
sparingly.
real.
Agudo como punta de colch6n.
sutler.
As sharp
as the corner of a mattress
(said of a stupid person).
De por
ahi.
Anything
common
one who makes
himself cheap.
Ahora
Well
bien.
;
granted
Just now.
Ahora, ahora.
nevertheless.
For the present.
Por ahora.
i
Hasta ahora.
Desde ahora.
From
Aire de taco.
Graceful, elegant
En el aire.
De bueno 6 mal
Quickly in an instant.
In good or bad humor.
Muchos
Hitherto.
this
moment, this day.

movement.
aire.
ajos en un mortero, mal

un
majadero.
maja
Como un ajo.
los
It is difficult
fairs at
the
to attend to
many
af-
same time.
Like a garlic (said of vigorous and

erect persons).
SPANISH IDIOMS.
259
Dientes de ajo.
Cloves of
Ajuste de cuentas.
For alambique.
Sparingly
in a penurious manner.
;
but
the dawn (ironical reNothing
to
those
who ask what they
ply
sino al alba.
No,
garlic.
liquidation of accounts.
ought to know already).
Albala de guia.
Albarda sobre albarda.
passport.
Needless
in
repetition
writing
or
speaking.
Los primeros albores del
juicio.
The
dawnings of mind (in a
first
child).
Alcalde de primera 6 segunda elec-
The
senior or junior judge.
ci6n.
Alfrez de navio.
Midshipman
Alferez mayor.
The
charge of the standcity, on the occasion of
ard of a
Con
todos sus
alfileres.
in the navy.
officer in
a royal visit.
be dressed in one's best.
To
Alegria secreta, candela muerta.
Solitary pleasures are less than those
Algod6n en rama.
Alguacil de campo, cojo 6 manco.
Raw
shared with others.

cotton.
Bailiffs
have weary work with poach-
ers.
Alguacil descuidado, ladrones cada
Where
mercado.
;
Buena
are
authorities
careless,
thieves abound.
alhaja
fine jewel
(ironically applied to
a rogue or very shrewd person)
!
Alia
en mis mocedades.
Formerly
in
my
Allende del mar.
Beyond the
seas.
Su alma en su palma.
Con el alma y la vida.
Retribution
is
Alma de
caballo.
youth.
certain.
With heart and soul most willingly.

One who commits crimes without
;
feeling remorse.
Alma de cantaro.
Alma mia
Almud de tierra.
!
A fool.
My love my
!
About
Altar de alma, 6 de anima.
De
From above
For
i
lo alto.
Alto ahi
privileged altar.
By
alto.
darling
half an acre of ground.
stealth.
Stop!
from heaven.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
260
De
From head
alto d bajo.
to
foot
from top to
bottom.
At
estas alturas.
Amen
de
this place, time, or occasion.
Besides that.
eso.
Amigo
viejo, tocino
Amigo
hasta las aras.
y vino anejo.
Friends, bacon, and wine, the older
the better.
De amigo
a amigo, sangre en
el ojo.
A good
Do not
An
del asa.
Amigo
muerte
sin amigo,
sin testigo.
faithful friend.
trust too readily those
intimate friend.
Life without a friend
without a witness
taza
de vino.
means death
in
friendless
friendless in death.
life,
Amigo de
who
themselves your friends.
call
Vida
and
friend from motives of interest
sponger.
Mintras mas amigos, mas
claros.
Entre dos amigos un notario y dos
and
ingenuousness are
indispensable between friends.

Regularity in business relations tends
to the safety of friends.
testigos.
Amor
Frankness
loco, yo por vos, y vos
por
Love
is
sometimes perverse.
otro.
Amor de
nino, agua en cestillo.
The
love of a
little
child cannot be
very deep.
Amor de
asno coz y bocado.
An
which shows
affection
itself in
troublesome ways.
De
los
amores y
las cafias, las en-
Love
is
strongest
when young.
tradas.
Al amor de
A
i
la
lumbre.
Ancha
Castilla
Tantas en ancho
Ancora de
Close to the
At ease
Be more
sus anchas.
como en
largo.
la esperanza.
largo andar.
fire.
at leisure.
frank,
Completely
Sheet anchor
and
free of action.
satisfactorily.
or anchor of hope.
in the long
;
In the course of time

run.
Anillo del pescador.
The
Anillo en dedo, honra sin provecho.
papal briefs are stamped.

Do not spend all your means on
fisherman's
seal,
with which
vanities.
Animo a
las
gachas.
Courage
overcomes
Try again
As soon as possible.
!
Cuanto
antes.
difficulties
SPANISH IDIOMS.
De
De
antuvi6n.
Cual
Formerly ; in olden times.

Rather than
antes.
Antes que
Unexpectedly.
As
el ano, tal el jarro.
Mai ano para alguno
En ano
261
the vintage is, so must the drinking-glasses be.
May
caro, harnero espeso y ce-
evil
come
to
him
In bad seasons we must economize.
dazo claro.
In the course of the year.
Entre ano.
El ano derecho, el besugo

el hornazo al fuego.
al sol,
malo, panadero en todo cabo.
Ano y
prosperity for both.

of yore.
Short crops make less work,
more profits for the bakers.
The days
El ano de cuarenta.
Ano
Early rains for the farmer, and late

sunshine for the fisherman, bring
Land
vez.
but
cultivated in alternate years.
6 a buen
In good years or in bad, the garden
ano y malo, molinero u hortelano.

.Tiempo apacible.
and the mill are always necessary.

Moderate weather.
Al ano tuerto
el
huerto
Small tackle (nau.).

Port tackle (nau.).
Aparajuelos.
Aparajuelos de portas.
Aparajuelos de rizos, 6 de
socaire.
Apartador de ganado.
Apartador de metales.
Apartamiento de ganado.
Apartamiento meridiano.
Aprendiz de todo, oficial de nada.
Aposentador de camino.
Reef
tackle, or jigger tackle (nau.).
One who steels sheep or cattle.

One who sorts ores.
The act of stealing cattle.
Departure, meridian distance (nau.).
all trades, good at none.
Jack of
An
officer
who goes
of the royal household

before to prepare a res-
idence.
Apuntador de comedias.
Aranador de dinero.
Arb61 pagano.
Area de agua.
Area de
Area
No.
c6rdis.
Prompter
A
A
at the theatre.
grasping, covetous person.

wild or uncultivated tree.
Reservoir; cistern.
Lumber room.
The pericardium.
Area llena y area vacia.

Arco fris del cielo, 6 de San Martin.
Plenty and want

The rainbow.
Armadura del tejado.

Armadura de una mesa.
Armadura de la cama.
The frame of a
The frame of a
bedstead.
vicissitude.
building.
table.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
262
Charcoal made of the roots of
Carbon de arranque.
Arranque del caballo.
Arreadador de plomo.
Arreboles a todos cabos, tiempo de
Red
The
Arroz y gallo muerto.

arte del diablo.
By
En
arteria,
dinner ; a banquet.
unnatural means.
Strangely and mysteriously done.
de birle-birloque.
Arterias de la madera.
arte
Aspera
skies all around, violent storms
A bore.
A grand
Arrendador del plomo.
For
very tiresome person.

are sure to come.
los diablos.
For
Veins formed in wood by ramifications of fibre.
6 traquiarteria,
asas.
The windpipe.
Arms akimbo.
Asadura y asaduria.
bastante, 6 asaz.
Muy
toll
paid for the passage of
Asi como.
Quite enough.
In the same way as
Asi asa.
So
Asi
como
^Como
Hombre
So
;
asi
que asado.
cattle.
as soon as.
so.
Any way
asi.
Asi que.
Asi que asd
trees.
of a horse.
start
by
it
all
means.
that.
Any way
makes no
difference.
How is that?
A prudent man.
asi?
de asiento.
Asiento de puente levadizo.

Asiento de plaza.
The abutment of
a drawbridge.
Enlistment of soldiers.
Asistencia continua.
Assiduity.
Asistencia de Sevilla.
The chief magistracy of Seville.

The broken wind of a horse.
Asma de
caballo.
Cada asno con
Every one must associate with
su tamano.
his
equals.
Al asno muerto,
la
cebada
al rabo.
To
lock the stable door after the
horse
Aspa de San Andres.
is
stolen.
Saint Andrew's cross, affixed to the
yellow cloaks of penitents sentenced by the Inquisition.
primer aspecto.
Asta de bandera de popa 6 de proa.
Asta de tope.
At
Astas.
Horns of animals,
En
asunto de
first sight.
Ensign
staff,
or Jack staff (nau.).
Flagstaff.
In the matter of
to
as bulls, etc.
.
in
regard
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Atadura de galeotes y prensas.
A train
to
Ata-el-gato.
Pedazo de atun.
An
Nay.
aun, atin mas.

Ni ausente sin culpa; ni presente
of prisoners bound together,
be conducted to the
ignorant, stupid fellow.
Eager
gloria.
for glory.
Bien 6 mal avenidos.
On good
Ayuda de parroquia.
Ayuda de costa.
Chapel of ease.
Town
Al babor del tim6n
barbor todo
De babor
at first sight.
Prison fare (a monotonous diet).

Port the helm (nau.).
or bad terms.
hall.
At once
primera azonada.
Azotes y galeras
la
lazy, inactive, half-foolish person.
A gratuity.
A valet de chambre.
Ayuda de camara.
Casa de ayuntamiento.
i
those present have always excuses.
Ave zonza.
galleys.
miser.
Those absent are always blamed
sin disculpa.
Avaro de
263
Hard
aport
(nau.).
Athwart ship (nau.).
a estribor.
Baculo de Jacob.
Baculo pastoral.
Jacob's staff ; a surveying instrument.
Baile
de candil, 6 de boton gordo.

Baile de disfraces, 6 trages.
A
A
Baile general.
The head bailiff in the
Bajeza de animo.
Bajeza de nacimiento.
Weakness of mind
Como una bala.

En balanza 6 en
With immense
Bishop's crosier.
rustic dance.
fancy
ball.
Obscurity of origin
In danger
balanzas.
Balsa de sangre.
royal domains.
lowness of spirits.
base extraction.
velocity.
in doubt.
of water, very distant
reservoir
from a source of supply, and
col-
lected with great labor.
Banco de ahorros.
De banda a banda.
Savings bank.
From
party to party
from one side
to the other.
la barata.
Mala
Confusedly
barata.
Con mas
barbas que un zamarro.
barba regarda.
en
la barba
;
barbas.
in a disorderly
manner.
la
barba
;
prodigality.
heavily bearded man.
Treat every one with due respect.
Cuales barbas, tales tobajas.

Barbas honradas.
A
A
Profusion
A
;
en sus
respectable person.
Abundantly
lavishly.
To
in his presence.
his face
SPANISH IDIOMS.
264
Barba d barba.
Face
Barba
brave soldier or cavalier.

noble, earnest fellow.
belida.
to face.
Barba cabosa.
Barbas de ballena.
Whalebone.
De
We
tal
must expect people to act in

accordance with their condition
barba, tal escama.
and education.
For barba.
Per head
Antes barba blanca para tu hija, que

muchacho de crincha partida.
;
per individual.
Rather marry your daughter to a
sensible old man than to a young
Como
Without reflection or examination.
fool.
en un barbecho.
Costado de barlovento.
The weather
The weather
Sin dano de barras.
Without injury or danger.
Fairly
Costa de barlovento.
barras derecho.
De
side (nau.).
without deceit.
From one end
barra a barra.
Base
shore (nau.).
salificable.
i
to the other.
substance capable of neutralizing

acids.
Between ourselves
Entre bastidores.
without
pub-
licity.
A scholarship.
A sinecure.
A beast of burden.
Beca de merced.
Beneficio simple.
Bestia de soma.
Gran bestia
La bestia caballar
You
The
De
cierra.
bien d bien.
Kindly
is
seven years old.
willingly.
Encumbered inheritances.
The possession simultaneously
Bienes heridos.
Bigamia
are a jackass
horse
espiritual.
of
two similar benefices.

Losing hazard (billiards).
Winning hazard (billiards).
Billa limpia.
Billa puerca,
sucia.
la birlonga.
Blanco como
ampo de la nieve.
Mas blando que una breva.
De
el
b6bilis b6bilis.
In a negligent, careless manner.

as the driven snow.
White
Brought to reason.
Without trouble or care
foolishly
at another's cost.
A boca de costal.
A boca de invierno.
A boca de canji!6n
a boca de
Boca de una arma de
fuego.
jarro.
Without measure ; profusely.

At the beginning of winter.
Without measure at random.
;
The muzzle of a
firearm.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Boca de
Boca
Boca
Boca
Boca
Boca
lobo.
de lobo del tamborete.
The
de
risa.
boca
De
llena.
boca.
De manos a
boca.
Boca a boca 6 boca por boca.

Boca del estomago.
Boca de escorpi6n.
A boca de canon.
Boca rasgada.
Boca de verdades.
;
point of a billiard cue.
smiling countenance.
An
de oro.
hole in the deck of a vessel
through which the mast passes.

Cap-hole for the topmast of a vessel.
de taco.
de gacha.
Pertrechos de boca y guerra.
The
265
eloquent tongue.
person
who mumbles
Perspicuously ; frankly ; openly.

Verbally, not really (used of boasting or threatening) .
Unexpectedly.
By word of mouth face

The pit of the stomach.
;
From a
A
A
very short distance.
large mouth.
frank person (ironically
truthful,
boca de noche.
At
una boca, una sopa.
To
bocados, 6 bocadillos.
sin hueso.
liar)
nightfall.
distribute fairly, that
have
to face.
Calumniator.
applied to a
A
A
his words.
Materials necessary for the support

or equipment of an army.
each
Piecemeal.
Bocado
A sinecure
Con
Just after dinner, or supper.
bocado en la boca.
buen bocado, buen grito.
el
may
his share.
an
You have done
office
without trouble.
the wrong,
now
take
the punishment.
Perrito de todas bodas.
One
continually
vitation
De
tales
bodas, tales costras, 6 tortas.
Those who
Boda de bongos.
Bodeg6n de puntapie\
A
A
Boga arrancada.
Sudden
coming without
in-
a crooked sixpence.
live
badly die badly.
poor wedding.
stall where cow's heels and black
puddings are sold.
departure
violent
sally
strong, uniform rowing.
De boga
Bolsa de Dios.
With long, steady strokes of

Alms charity.
Bolsa de hierro.
Avarice
Bolsa rota.
Spendthrift.
Juego de bolsa.
Dealing
arrancada.
covetousness.
in stocks.
the oars.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
266
Bomba
Listen
bonete
tente
hasta
tente
(calling attention to a toast).
Abundantly
excessively.
bonete.
Bravo bonete
An
6 gran bonete.
Bordon y calabaza, vida holgada.
De
De
De
Vagrants; tramps.
In haste ; quickly.
bote y botes.
botones adentro.
Inwardly.
bot6n gordo.
Brava cosa
Coarse
rough
brazo partido.
ungraceful.
What nonsense
idiot.
With bare fists unarmed.

With open arms ; lovingly ;
;
Abiertos los brazos
6 con los brazos
gladly.
abiertos.
De
De
buenas a buenas
Al buey por
Willingly.
At
el
cuerno, y al
hombre
first
sight
from the beginning.
man's word should be better than

bonds.
la palabra.
por
Buey
6 d buenas.
buenas a primeras.
He
is competent (an old ox makes

a straight furrow).
At random ; by wholesale ; without
derecho.
viejo, surco
bulto.
examination.
De
In
burlas.
jest.
Burra de palo.
Al cabal ; por cabaL
Any kind
of sailing-vessel.
Exactly
perfectly.
Por sus cabales.

Por su cabal.
A mata caballo.
To
Caballo de apariencia.
Caballo de regalo.
A
A
Caballo de buena boca.
One
regards food.
On horseback.
caballo.
stately horse.
fine saddle-horse.
Caballo bianco.
easily satisfied, particularly as
foolish fellow
cards
Cabeza de
Cabeza de
An
chorlito.
Hare-brained
6 a todos cabos.
Por ningun cabo.

Al cabo del mundo
6 hasta
el
obstinate
To
postre
al
;
cabo
6
al
al
cabo de
cabo y a
la Jornada.
la
cheated at
frivolous.
Extremely ; to the
By no means.
cabo
is
man.
last
degree.
any place, however remote.
mundo.
Al cabo
who
a pigeon.
hierro.
todo cabo
del
the point ; exactly.

T
ith all one's might ; earnestly.
In the utmost hurry.
After
all
at last.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Cabo de
casa.
Cabos negros (en

Cabra por
las
mujeres).
vina, cual la
madre
tal
la
The head of the house.

The black hair, eyebrows, and eyes
of a woman.
As is the mother, so will be the
daughter.
hija.
;
267
Cachaza, amigo, cachaza
Coolly, friend, coolly
there
is
no
haste.
Con
With
cachaza.
Caja de ahorros.
Cafe de la sultana.
self-possession.
savings bank.
An
infusion from the husks of the
coffee.
Caf
An
cetrino.
infusion
from
unroasted
the
coffee.
Calamo
Off hand
currente.
Por calculo.
Systematically ; with a fixed purpose.

Davy Jones' locker (nau.).
Calderas de Pero bolero.
las
in haste.
Never.
calendas griegas.
At
A, 6 en, estas calendas.

A mala cama, colch6n de vino.
De camino.
De un camino, 6 de una
via,
that time.
one must watch through the night,

a little wine is desirable.
If
dos
On
the
way
To
kill
two birds with one stone.
dressed for travelling.

s
mandados.
Camino de Roma,
bolsa
ni
mula
coja, ni
Count
floja.
A moco de candil.
Una bala cansada.
Una vista cansada.
En capa de
By
Cara apedreada.
A
A
Cara de cart6n.
cara descubierta.
At
impaired eyesight.
pretext of ...
face pitted with the small-pox.
wrinkled face.
Openly
plainly.
pale,
puny
first
sight.
face.
hideous or deformed face.
Bless
me
good gracious
carga cerrada.
Inconsiderately
cargas.
Abundantly plentifully.
Why ? for what reason ?
Por qu carga de agua?

Carga real.
,1
Carga
concejil.
beginning
Under
primera cara.
Cara de hereje.
before
cost
is difficult.
the light of a lamp.

spent cannon-ball.
An
Cara deslavada.
Caracoles
the
what
Royal
tax.
Municipal
office.
without thought.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
268
Cargaz6n de tiempo.
Cloudy, thick weather.
At
carrera abierta.
Carrera de Indias.
For carta de mas, 6 de me"nos.

Cartas 6 patentes de contramarca.
Tren de una
speed.
Letters of marque.
Household furniture.
Houses where the officers of the
royal household must be received
and lodged.
casa.
Casas de aposento.
Alegre de cascos
full
Trade with the Indies.

Extremes should be avoided.
6 cascos lucidos.
Barrendo de cascos.
person of little judgment.

Crack-brained ; crazy.
En
It is
For
caso negado.
el
mismo
Caso que
En caso de
.
In case
difficult.
very
For the same reason.
caso.
In that case.
eso.
Caso apretado.
An
Cedacito nuevo, tres dias en estaca.
A new broom
Hasta
To
En
las cejas.
Privately
6 acerca de
From
cerca.
Around
por
los cerros
de Ubeda.
steep and inaccessible mountain.

Foreign to the purpose.
Tax formerly
la reina.
Chico con grande.

Chico como grande.
One
Chico
on oc-
with the other
little
and
big.
Without exception.
pleito.
Chispas
levied in Spain
casion of the king's marriage.

shoulder knot.
Charretera mocha.
round about.
Cerro enriscado.
Como
stealth.
of that.
In regard to ...
a short distance.
cerca.
Chapin de
by
No more
'
Cepos quedos.
De
En
sweeps clean.
the utmost.
In a secret way.
celada.
cencerros tapados.
Cerca de
urgent case.
trifling
matter.
Exclamation of wonder or displeas-
ure.
la chitacallando.
Esa ni con chocalate.

Ni por el cielo, 'ni por
Cierto, tal
Por
que
cierto.
raja cincha.
By
stealth
la tierra.
very quietly.
make me believe it.

Heaven and earth shall not induce
me to do it.
Nothing
shall
So much so that
Surely
At
full
certainly.
speed.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
De
claro en claro.
Clavo de
Tablas de
Cle"rigo
Clearly
269
openly.
Tacks small
Thin boards.
chilla.
chilla.
de misa y
An
olla.
Dama de coche y estrado.

Del codo a la mano.
unlearned
nails.
priest.
fashionable, frivolous
woman.
From
the elbow to the hand (exaggerated description of a person's
diminutive size).
Entre col y col, lechuga.

De cola de puerco nunca buen virote.
is
Variety
pleasing.
You cannot make an arrow of a

tail
pig's
(or a silken purse of a sow's
ear).
De
Backward
la cola.
behind.
Color quebrado, 6 quebradizo.

Comedia de capa y espada.
A dull color.
A drama of
Ancho de
requiring scenery.
An unscrupulous conscience.
conciencia.
Estrecho de conciencia.
En
De
conclusi6n.
contado.
De
not
scrupulous person.
In short.
Instantly
contento.
Fino como un
affairs,
immediately.
With ready money.
Al contado.
every-day
Satisfactorily.
Adroit
coral.
corazon.
sharp
astute.
Blando de corona.
Truly ; sincerely ; affectionately.

A tender skin (in a horse).
Correo de malas nuevas.
By return mail.
To go forth on horseback and
correo tirado.
Corrida de caballo, y parada de bor-
person
news.
who
turn on a
rico.
enjoys carrying bad
donkey
re-
to begin pros-
perously and end miserably.
Corrida de toros.
De
Quickly
corrida.
Corriente y moliente.
la corta, 6 a la larga.
Cortapicos y callares
Corte de cuentas.
bull-fight.
;
rapidly.
Very much as usual.

Sooner or later.
Silence
no more questions
!
Cortes constituyentes.
Fuerte cosa.
Constitutional convention.
Cada cosa para
There
su cosa.
balance.
perplexing, troublesome thing.

is a proper time and use for
everything.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
270
Cosas de acarreo.
Goods transported
<iQue cosa?
Costa acantilada.
What do you say? what
An
accessible coast.
A
A
By
dint of ...
costa de
as freight.
is
it?
Regardless of expense; at
all
haz-
Costa firme.
Mainland.
Costa de sotavento.
Lee
Costa a costa.
Along the coast.

Poor people cannot make great
gifts.
toda costa.
ards.
De costal vacio nunca buen

En un credo.
Cada
bodigo.
shore.
In a short time.
Every moment.
credo.
Criados de escalera abajo.

Criados de escalera arriba.
The
The
Puro como un
Irreproachable
pure.
Not for the world
crisol.
Ni por un Cristo
la cruz
La cruz en
At the
pechos, y
el
diablo en
que
few
Much
Cada
Each one.
cual.
el
cuervo,
tal
;De cuando aca
alike
Surprise
at
seeing something
Every now and then.
When
Cuando
At
As
shall I see
to
regarding
Cuarto a cuarto.
Meanly.
De tres
Mas de
Of little moment.
More than four
persons, or times
(i.e., a great number).

large wound from a knife.
Cuchillada de cien reales.
Familiarly
pan y
a.gain ?
least.
Besides.
cuatro personas, 6 veces.
you
At most.
Cuanto mas.
al cuarto.
un-
usual.
I Hasta cuando ?
Cuando mas, cuando mucho.
cuchillo.
the same.
Like parent, like child.
me'nos.
the
much
Perico, 6 Marica
cuanto a ...
at the criti-
hypocrites.
sus huevos.
con guantes?
De cuando en cuando.
En
so so.
Provided that
Cual mas, cual me'nos.

Cual
deeds
devil in one's
Tal cual.
tal
moment.
From beginning to end.

The cross on one's breast, and
los hechos.
Con
critical
At the wrong moment

cal moment.
a la fecha.
los
upper-servants.
;
A tiempo.
A punto crudo.
De
under-servants.
habitually.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
En
resumidas cuentas.
In short
Cuentos de prisioneros.
Cuento de viejas.
En
En
cuento de
cuento.
cuento de
An
old
prisoners.
woman's
Any way
number of ...
means.
all
by
tale.
to the
Numberless.
Sin cuentos.
a word.
in
Thousands of
In place of
todo cuento.
271
To
the point
On
. .
to the purpose.
condition that
provided
that ...
Cuento de horno.
Cuento de cuentos.
For debajo de cuerda.
Familiar conversation
Sobre cuernos, penitencia.

De cuero ajeno, correas largas.
fireside tales.
Complex details.
Under the rose.
To add insult to injury.
To
give liberally what
is
not one's
own.
En
i
La
cuerpo y en alma.
ida del cuervo
Totally; entirely.
He's
Up
On
Cuesta arriba, 6 abajo.
cuestas.
For cuenta de una persona.

Cuidado ajeno de pelo cuelga.
Culpa
lata.
Culto de hiperdulla.
De ilustre 6 humilde cuna.
off
hill
(expression of gladness)
down
or
hill.
the shoulders.
At the cost of a
Other people's
certain person.
affairs
are
easily
neglected.
Absence of the simplest precautions.
Worship of the Virgin Mary.
Of
illustrious or
Los derechos de cura.
Dues or
Teniente cura.
Vicar.
Teniente de cura.
Rural dean.
Debajo de mano.
Decretos de caj6n.
Privately
humble
family.
fees of a clergyman.
an underhand manner.
in
Common
decrees, not requiring spe-
cial legal formality.
Decuri6n de decuriones.
Chief monitor in a Spanish school.
Degolladero de bolsas.
Cut-purse
shop where there
extravagant
prices
are
or dishonest
dealings.
Dejado de
la
mano de
Dios.
Al delicado poco mal y bien atado.
Abandoned by God.
To
the delicately nurtured small an-
noyances are
Delia con deilo-
Reciprocally
come.
Demandas y
respuestas.
Haggling.
trials.
good and bad
as they
SPANISH IDIOMS.
272
A
A
dentelladas.
Snappishly; peevishly.
derechas.
Right
tuertas 6 a derechas.
Right or wrong.
Hecho
y derecho.
well or honestly done.
Perfect
Segun derecho, 6 a derecho.

Derechos de salvamento.
En derecho de derecho
Con desagrado.
;
complete
without doubt.
to law.
According
Salvage money.
.
By
right
of ...
in the direction
Descarga de aduana.
Ungracefully ; ungraciously.
Clearance at the custom house.
Descarga general del costado del
Broadside from a man-of-war.
navio.
En
descargo de mi conciencia.
Descorchador de colmena.
For the
satisfaction of my conscience.
One who breaks
Como un
la
descosido.
descubierta
into the
hive
to
the honey.
steal
Excessively.
al
descubierto.
Descubrimiento del pecho.

Al descuido y con cuidado.
Openly
;
clearly ; manifestly.
Confidential communications.
Studiously careless
a dissembling
carelessness.
Desde luego.
Desde ent6nces.
Desde nino.
A medida del deseo.
Therefore
From
From
Fuga deshecha.
A
A
In single
la deshilada.
Un
dia
si, y otro no.

tres dias buenos, cabo de mal ex-
immediately.
;
ever since.
one's childhood.
According
Borrasca deshecha.
that time forward
to one's wish.
violent tempest.
precipitate flight.
file
steadily.
alternate day.
Every
The wheel of fortune turns
often.
tremo.
Como
Like the devil
el diablo.
Con mil diablos.

Nos por lo ajeno, y
An
el
diablo por lo
el diablo.
Diamante en bruto.
Lo
dicho, dicho.
Otra
al
dicho Juan de Coca.
Dicho de
las gentes.
pan duro, diente agudo.

Diente de perro.
in excess).
gains when disappearing

carry honest money with them.
Ill-gotten
nuestro.
Mas que
(i.e.,
interjection of anger or fury.
Most
unwillingly.
rough diamond.
What I have said,
That
is
abide by.
a very impertinent repetition.
Gossiping.
Hunger
is
the best sauce.
sampler; work done by young

girls.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Valiente por el diente.
El
Courage which only shows
itself in
attacking food.
The grinding of the teeth.
de dientes.
crujir
De
De
273
diestro a diestro.
diestro a diestro el
mas
presto.
Diamond cut diamond.

Of two who are equally
skilful,
choose the quicker one.
A
A
un
diferencia.
diestro y a siniestro.
diestro,
un
Right or wrong.
Quickness is sometimes better than
presto.
skill.
En
With a
In spite of
.
despecho
Despues de Dios.
Despues aca.
.
Al despuntar del
in defiance of
...
Ever since.
At break of day.
dia.
By
activas
Under God.
destajo.
Deudas
difference.
In haste.
diligencia'.
deudas pasivas.
the job.
Assets
liabilities.
Deuda comun.
Death.
Dia de viernes.
Dia de besamanos.
Court day.
Fast- day.
Dia diado, 6 adiado.

El dia de hoy; 6 hoy en dia; en
dias de vivos.
Day appointed for doing anything.

The present day in our own times.
Dia pardo
dia pesado.
Entre dia.
En dias de Dios en los dias de lavida.

;
cloudy, dull, gloomy day.
In the daytime.
Never.
Dias y ollas.
Dias ha.
Time and patience accomplish much.
De
Some
It is
dias.
At daybreak.
I will never do
Al ser de dia.
No
en mis
a long time since.

time ago.
dias.
Despues de los dias de alguno.

Dinero en tabla ; 6 dinero en mano.
Cash
In coin
dinero
tante
al
dinero
A dinero con-
it.
After the death of a person.

;
ready money.
;
in ready
money.
a dinero seco.
Dinero y no consejos.
Deeds, not words (answer to unde-
Buen
sired advice).
De
dinero.
dinero y de bondad,
la mitad.
la
mitad de
safe debt.
The popular
estimate of wealth and
character generally doubles

truth.
the
SPANISH IDIOMS.
274
Los dichos en nos, y
los
hechos en
Man
A la paz de Dios
Dios delante.
will.
God's peace be with you

God granting with God's help.
The power (finger) of Gcd.
El dedo de Dios.
That
Dios, y en hora buena,

Dios sobre todo
God
is
is
right
over
as
all
it
Ay Dios
A
A
I give
buena de Dios.
it
for lost
up
Candidly
At
Dios y a ventura.
De Dios en ayuso.
En
when doubt-
of success)
Expression of pity, pain, or
Dios mi dinero
la
should be.
(said
ful
God what
does what he can,
he
Dios.
iright.
in all truth.
all risks.
From God downward.
Dios y conciencia
6 en Dios y
mi alma.
En amaneciendo Dios.
In very truth
When
God knows
dawns
it
it is
true.
the
day
when
breaks.
Para aqui, y para delante de Dios.

Aqui de Dios
Forever.
God
God
Dios y ayuda
A manta ; 6 a manta de Dios.
!
de
Compania
dos,
compania
help me
help us
Copiously
de
Two
God be
with
me
plentifully.
agree more readily than many.
Dios.
Despues de Dios a
Of all temporal
la olla.
needs, hunger
is
the
greatest.
La. confianza en Dios, y los pies en

,la
Anda con Dios

colorada
Have
faith,
but be diligent.
calle.
Dios
!
;
Dios con
la
Good by
God
be with you
Farewell
discreci6n.
disgusto
At
adieu
or
the will
God
help us
of an!
discretion
other.
Disparate craso.
In spite of ...
Egregious nonsense.
A
A
distinci6n.
In contradistinction.
la dobla.
With importunity ; returning
to the
charge.
An
Tierra doblada.
la dobladilla
Docena de
docenas.
fraile.
al
doble.
uneven, mountainous country.
Doubly; repeatedly.
baker's dozen.
Abundantly
in
good
quantities.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
275
Domingo de Lazaro.
Domingo de ramos.
Domingo de resurrecci6n.
Domingo siete.
Passion Sunday.
Don de gentes.
Don de acierto.
Don de errar.
Don Preciendo.
Don Guindo.
Popular qualities ; winning manners.

Habitual dexterity.
Palm Sunday.
Easter Sunday.
An
absurdity.
A knack of erring.
A poor man who boasts
One who
of riches.
boasts of learning which
he does not possess.
Don
Donde
<j
Lindo.
For donde ?
Hacia donde ?
donde bueno?
<;A
bueno ?
De donde
6 <de
donde
Wine of a mild
dos por
dos por
Where is he going ?
he come from?
or where does
Inconsiderately ; without thought.

Clear pine timber.
diere.
Vino doncel.
the contrary.
By what way or reason ?

Toward what place ?
Pino doncel.
En un
dandy.
On
no.
flavor.
In a twinkling.
tres.
tres.
Inconsiderately; audaciously;
sud-
denly.
Dos
Twice double.
Between you and me.
tantos.
Aqui para entre los dos.

Sin duelo.
Abundantly.
Small copper coin.
Moneda de duendes.
duras penas
Peso duro.
6 a duro.
With
and
difficulty
hard dollar
Durillo revelante.
Bombast.
Avanzado de edad.
Advanced
Menor edad.
.Legal minority.
En
In fact
efecto.
Empenadura de
las consejas.
labor.
a dollar in coin.
in age
old.
in truth.
Beginning of a discourse or narration.
Encaje del rostro

Ley del encaje.
6 de
la cara.
The
An
aspect
De los enemigos los m6nos.

Derecho de entrada.
Entrada furtiva.
Entrada de mes, 6 de ano.
Amongst
De
At the
primera entrada.
appearance.
arbitrary law.
Import
evils,
choose the
least.
duties.
Burglary.
The beginning
of the month, or year.
first effort.
SPANISH IDIOMS,
276
Entranas empedernidas.
Ermitas de Baco.
Escaso de bienes.
Far from
heart as hard as a rock.
Taverns
Escaso de luces.
wine-shops.
rich.
Uneducated.
Escudero pobre, taza de plata y

de cobre.
olla
Good
things are more economical in

the end, even if more expensive
at
first.
Espada blanca.
Espada negra.
Espada de d caballo.
Sword.
Primera espada.
The head
A espaldas vueltas, memorias muertas.

A espaldas vueltas.
A espaldas.
Out of
Foil.
Broadsword, or dragoon's sword.

bull-fighter.
out of mind.
sight,
behind one's back.

;
Behind one's back; in one's ab-
Treacherously
sence.
Sobre mis espaldas.

A las espaldas de la
Solo
como
el
iglesia.
esparrago.
At my expense.
At the back part of the church.
As lonely as asparagus each stalk
;
by
itself.
The
accidents of taste, color, and

smell, which remain in the sacra-
Especies sacramentales.
mental wafer after transubstantiation.
Espectaculo sangriento.
most moving
Espejo ustorio.
burning-glass.
Limpio como un espejo.
As
In durance.
estaca
6 a
la estaca.
Siete estados debajo
de
tierra.
As
Buena estampa.
clean, or bright, as a
Para
En
En
estas,
estas
6 per estas
y en estotras.
figure
(generally applied to
swear by
this
(either while holdthe
or making a cross
beard,
ing
with the hand).
!
In the meanwhile.
Estatura atroz.
At this time.
Enormous stature.
Estilo castizo.
Estomago aventurero.
One dependent on
esto.
correct style.
another
er-on.
la estrecha.
Al estrecho.
new penny.
secret as the grave.
good
horses)
i
sight.
Friendly.
Necessarily
perforce.
a hang-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Con
A short
estrellas.
277
time after
nightfall, or before
daybreak.
Estudios mayores.
The
Juez de estudios.
higher sciences.
vice-chancellor in
some Spanish
universities.
Mayor de toda excepcion.
An impeachable
De
En
Falsely
falso.
Sin
i
Without due
falso.
falta
de
al
security.
In want of
Punctuality ; without fail.

In the king's name
(calling assist-
falta.
Favor
witness.
deceitfully.
rey
6 favor a
la justicia
want of ...
for
ance to seize a criminal).
F de
Errata.
erratas.
Enfe.
De buena f ; 6 a
De mala fe\
A f mia ; 6 por mi f.
Poseedor de buena f.
f<
Consequently.
Truly
F6haciente.
sincerely
cunningly.
honor.
Deceitfully
Upon my
The
4
in earnest.
rightful possessor.
Authentic
Ferias.
Fairings
Fianza bancaria.
Bank
manifestly true.
gifts
from a
fair.
security given in
Rome
insure pensions charged

siastical
works)
on
(to
eccle-
de balanza.
The weigh-master
Fiel
de balanza de
pivot of a balance or steelyard.

The needle of a balance.
Fiel
de romana.
Fiel
la
romana.
magistrate
who
at the
mint
the
inspects slaughter-
houses and shambles.

Fiel
En
de muelle.
fiel.
Equal weight
Fiesta de p61vora.
Por
Wharfinger.
modo de
fiesta.
Natural y figura, genio y figura hasta

la sepultura.
In jest
In order that
En
fin
6 por
fin.
of short duration.
What is bred in the bone

come out of the flesh.
At
de ...
even balance.
for fun.
Figura de proa.
Alfin.
fin
Something quick
will
never
Figure-head of a ship.
last
Finally
at length.
.
lastly.
Por cualquier fin.

En flor 6 flor de edad.
For whatever motive or cause.

In infancy, youth, bloom of youth.
Flor de cobre.
Verdigris.
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278
Flor de azufre.
Flowers of sulphur.
Water-level.
la flor del
agua,
Flor de viento.
Point of compass.
Flor de mano.
Artificial flowers.
Flor de harina.
Superfine flour.
Flor de especia, 6 nuez de especia.

Libro de las cuarenta fojas.
Mace.
Hombre de
Fondos
fondo.
fondo.
The deck of a ship.

Heads of casks.
The background of a
Fondos.
El fondo de una pintura.
De forma que
.
In such manner that
En forma.
En debida forma.
En toda forma.
Hombre de forma.
deeply.
picture.
.
Truly; certainly; seriously.

Formally ; according to law.
Perfectly
completely.
A man of merit and

A shoemaker's last.
A cheese-press.
Forma de zapatero.
Forma para los quesos.
la
ability.
Perfectly ; completely
Life annuities.
Fondos vitalicios.
Fondos de un navio.
Fortuna de
and
State securities.
publicos.
A pack of cards.
A man of talents
mancha.
distinction.
Omelet of eggs and chopped bacon.
In front
frente.
a line
in
obverse
of
coins.
En
Frente de batalla.
Opposite ; over the way.

Front rank of a body of troops.
Dinero
fresco.
Ready money
Pintura
al fresco.
Painting in fresco.
frente.
Fruta nueva.
Anything new.
Fruta de tiempo.
Fruto de benedici6n.
Fruit in season.
A
A
To
Legitimate children.
injure a person gradually.
fuego lento.
fuego y sangre.
Fuego de
artificio
cash payment.
artificio
de
Severely; unsparingly.
Fireworks.
fuego.
Fuera de
De
Absent-minded
si.
On
fuera.
Fuera de
beside one's
Out of ...
Fuera de eso.
Besides
Fuera de
Short of this
esto.
the exterior.
moreover.
;
besides
this.
self.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
279
Fuera de que.
Fuero externo.
Besides
Fueros.
Charters or privileges granted to a

province, town, or person.
De
la
fuero in-
fuerza.
The
With force
fuerza.
En
fuerza de
by
right.
violently.
In virtue of ...
fuerza de villano, hierro en
mano.
Birds that can sing and won't sing
must be made
Animo a
las
gachas
On
!
Gallina en coral ajeno.
Al primer
to sing.
Such and such an one.
Fulano y mengano.
A gachas ; 6 a gatas.
j
tribunal of conscience.
By perseverance.
Of course ; necessarily.
fuerza.
Por
conciencia
6 interno.
terior
De
civil law.
According to law
fuero.
Fuero de
this.
Canon and
gallo.
all
fours.
Cheer up
like
take courage
a cat in a strange garret.
!
Shy
At midnight
;
the midnight crowing
of the cocks.
Pata de
An
gallo.
Entre gallos y media noche.
De buena gana.
De mala gana.
De su gana.
De gana.
artful device.
At an inconvenient hour.
With pleasure ; willingly.
;
Of
accord.
his
own
Designedly
Horned
Ganado mayor.
Ganado menor.
with reluctance.
Unwillingly
purposely.
and mules.
cattle
Smaller
as
animals,
sheep,
goats,
asses.
Ganado de
Swine.
cerda.
An
Cuenta garbanzos.
;
Cinco, y
la
garra
avaricious person.
Stolen goods
Navio de media garra.

Vino de garrote.
vessel that carries
The
last
wine
no
topsails.
pressed from
the
grapes.
La
gata de Mari-Ramos.
One who
tries to
obtain a thing while
pretending not to want
Gata del
ancla.
Tiro del aparejo de
Cuadernal de
la gata.
la gata.
Enganchar
gata en la ancla.
ciencia
6 gaya doctrina.
;
Gaya
la
Cat-tackle (nau.).
Cat- fall (nau.).
Cat-block (nau.).
To hook
Poetry.
the cat (nau.).
it.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
280
gaznate tendido, 6 a todo gaznate.
De
At the top of one's
From one
gente en gente.
lungs.
to another
from genera-
tion to generation.
Gente fina ; 6 gente de raz6n.

Gente de pluma.
Gente de modo, 6 de braza.
Gente principal.
Gente de pelo, 6 de pelusa.
Well-educated people.
Gente de trato.
Gente de bien 6 de buen proceder.
Gente de capa parda.
Tradesmen dealers.
Honest people.
Gente del bronce.

Gente de cuchilla.
Gente de paz.
People who are always merry.
Notaries
attorneys.
Fashionable people.
Nobility or gentry.
People of property.
Villagers
rustics.
Butchers.
Gente baja 6 del gordillo.

Gente de la hampa; 6 de
friend (answer to a challenge)

rabble ; the mob.
The
la
vida
debauched
set of people.
airada.
Gente de toda broza.
Gente perdida.
Que infierno de gente
Gentil necedad
j
People without
ment.
Gentil-hombre de manga.
Gentil-hombre de camara.
Vagrants ; vagabonds.
What a crowd what a hubbub
!
Lord of the bed-chamber.
Como
As any one
buffoon.
else.
Giro regular de negocios.

Gobierno de casa.
De
De
Without premeditation.
golpe y porrazo.
golpe y zumbido.
Golpe de pluma.
Golpe en vago.
Golpe de fortuna.
El golpe del reloj.
golpe, 6 de un golpe.
Golpe de mar.
De
Golpe de musica.
Golpe de remo.
Duro de gorra.
fair
run of business.
Household.
Unexpectedly
gota.
unawares.
A
A
stroke of the pen.

stroke that missed
fortunate event
The
its
aim.
a jump.
tick of a clock.
Suddenly
all
at once.
Surf ; a heavy sea.

A band of music.
Stroke in rowing.
He who
waits for others to salute
first.
Gota d
pretty piece of folly

Governor of the royal children.
Gentil-hombre de placer.
gentil-hombre.
or employ-
trade
Drop by drop.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Gota
coral.
Epilepsy.
El gozo en
el
pozo
My
Que" gracia
su bella gracia.
De
De
En
gracia
Navio en
Gratis
thing indeed
for nothing.
Stocks for ship-building.
Ship on the stocks.

Thanks to God ; thank God.
la
grada.
4 Dios.
Grado
Ni grado,
For the sake of ...
gracia de
Grada de construcci6n.
.
have vanished
!
6 de balde.
illusions
What a wonder a fine

Of his own accord.
281
Unintentional
ni gracias.
deeds
no
deserve
thanks.
De
De
grado
6 de su grado.
Willingly.
grado en grado.
Gradually.
In spite of him.
Mai su grado.
Mai de su grado.
Unwillingly.
En grado superlativo.
Con su grano, 6 su granito de
Excessively.
sal.
With a grain of
sails}
The main body of an army.

Excuse
En buena
By
guerra.
guia
A guisa
6 en
de
tal
la guia.
guisa
en
tal
guisa
Habas.
I
my
gloves.
lawful means.
Driving four in hand.
guias.
En
(cum grano
In a loud voice, an urgent cry.
grito herido.
El grueso de un ejrcito.
Salvo el guante.
salt
Qu6 acA ? 6
<i
que"
ac& morena ?
Hacia adelante.
Hacia aca, 6 hacia esta

Hacia d6nde ?
;
Guiding.
In such a manner or way that
White and black balls used in voting.
.
To what
parte.
6 hacia su pais.
Real hacienda.
Ministro de hacienda.
Hacienda publica.
Secretario de hacienda.
Hither; hitherward.
Whither ? to what place ?
Homeward.
Royal exchequer.
Chancellor of the exchequer.
Public treasury ; finances.
Secretary of the treasury.
Goods already bespoken.
Hacimiento de
rentas.
The
la tierra.
On
Thanksgiving.
act of selling real estate, or a
by public auction.
the face of the earth.
lease,
la faz
sobre
faz.
de
purpose ?
Haciendas apalabradas.
Hacimiento de gracias.
Sobre
Forward.
,5
Hacia casa
Apparently
at first view.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
282
En
En
De
A
A
faz
6 en
In sight.
la faz.
With common consent and approval.
haz y en paz.
esta hecha.
From
this time.
hecho.
Incessantly
caso hecho.
Purposely.
indiscriminately.
Tiempo hecho.
Settled weather (nau.).
Viento hecho.
Hecho y
lo
derecho.
steady wind (nau.).
Perfect; complete.
must make the best of what
We
hecho, pecho.
is
already done.
De
hecho, y de derecho.
By
act
and by
Hermano de leche.
Hermano politico.
Brother-in-law.
Medio hermano.
Half-brother.
Hermano
right.
Foster-brother.
carnal.
full
brother,
father
having
the
same
and mother.
Hermano
consanguineo.
brother having the same

but not the same mother.
Hermano
uterino.
brother having the same mother,

but not the same father.
En
casa del herrero, cuchillo man-
The shoemaker's
to
gorrero.
father,
children are
bound
go barefoot.
Hidalgo de gotera.
The scum of the people.

One who enjoys the privileges of
Hidalgo de bragueta.
One who
La hez
del pueblo.
nobility in
one town only.
enjoys the
privileges
of
consequence of being
the father of seven sons without
nobility, in
Hieles.
an intervening daughter.
Calamities ; misfortunes.
Males higados.
Hasta los higados.
To
Los
Members
hijos
Ill will.
de Mari-rabadilla 6 Mari-
sabidilla,
cada uno en su escu-
the heart.
of the same family do not
always agree.
dilla.
Muchos
con
hijos y
poco pan, contento
Sordid poverty blunts family affec-
afan.
El hijo muerto, y el apio en
tion.
el huerto.
The opportunity once
lost
seldom
returns.
El hijo de buena pasa malo y bueno.
good education prepares one

both good and
ill
fortune.
for
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Hijos de tus bragas, bueyes de tus
We
283
care most for that which
is
our
own.
vacas.
There are sons of many mothers
Hijos de muchas madres.
very various people).

care little for that which costs
(i.e.,
Hijo
sin dolor,
madre
amor.
sin
We
us
little.
Hijo de su padre, 6 de su madre.
The
Hijo de la gallina blanca.

Pendiente de un hilo.
A lucky
To hang on
Hilo de acarreto.
danger.
Pack-thread.
Hilo de una corriente.
Direction of a current.
child resembles his father, or his
mother.
Hilo a
hilo.
fellow.
Drop by
hilo.
tido.
to
be in great
one
after another.
Directly; instantly.
grown man.
Forewarned is forearmed
prepared
Hombre de ambas, 6 de todas sillas.

Hombre de bigote, 6 de pecho.
Hombre de bigote al ojo ; 6 hombre
drop.
Successively
De hilo.
Hombre hecho y derecho.
Hombre apercibido nunca comba-
a thread
is
to
be
half victory.
A man of varied learning.

A man of spirit and vigor.
A sensible man.
de peso.
A man
Hombre de tamano.
of respectability and endow-
ments.
Hombre de
Hombre de
A man of original mind.

A man of respectability
capricho.
copete.
and
influ-
ence.
Hombre de chapa.
Hombre de coraz6n.
Mucho hombre.
Hombre de pelo en pecho.
Hombre de pro, 6 de provecho.
Hombre de buena capa.
A sensible man.
A brave and generous man.
A man of great talent and ability.
A brave, daring man.
A clear-headed, upright man.
Hombre de capa negra.

Hombre de capa y espada.
Hombre de buenas letras 6 hombre
A decent man.
A person of no profession.
A learned man.
One who
lives
comfortably and in
good repute.
lleno.
Hombre de
calzas atacadas.
A conservative man
of old customs.
a rigid observer
SPANISH IDIOMS.
284
Buen hombre, pero mal
A man
sastre.
of good heart, but small
ability.
A
A
A
Hombre de ve"ras.
Hombre de a caballo.
Hombre liso.
Hombre mayor.
Hombre de un siglo.
truthful, earnest
good
plain, truthful
man.
An aged man.
One who
age
Hombre de
Hombre de
man.
rider.
strong in spite of his
is
a vigorous old man.

of experience.
A man
A respectable person.
A man remarkable in the
hecho.
circunstancias.
El primer hombre del mundo.
of which
we
Hombre de campo.
Hombre bianco 6 mujer blanca.
Hombre de chaqueta.
Hombre cerrado de barba.
Hombre de est6mago.
A
A
heavily bearded man.

tenacious person.
El hombre perezoso, en
lazy
la
fiesta
line of life
are speaking.
farmer.
An honest man, or woman.

A man of the people.
man must make up
his neg-
work during the holidays.

inconsiderate man.
acucioso.
lected
Hombre arrebatado.
Hombre de intenci6n.
Hombre al agua, a la mar.
A rash,
A dissembler.
A man who gives
provement
Hombre de mala
digesti6n.
He who
no hope of im-
in health or conduct.
wears a frown, or cynical
expression.
Hombre baldio.
Hombre para poco.
Hombre de bajos principios.
Un hombre de mucho arranque.
Hombre bellaco tres barbas a cuatro.
Hombre menudo.
Hombre de dos caras.
A close man
A hypocrite.
Ni hombre
That which
tiple, ni
mujer bajon.
Vagrant; vagabond.
A coward a good-for-nothing.
;
A mean, low man.

A man of hasty temper.
Rogues are double-faced.
;
is
a worthless man.
unsuitable
is
also un-
pleasing.
Hombre de vida airada.

Hombro con hombro.
Al hombro
De
6 sobre
los
honra y provecho.
licentious
man.
Shoulder to shoulder
hombros.
On
cheek by jowl.
the shoulders.
For both mental and physical
quali-
ties.
A
A
hora.
la hora.
At once immediately
At the nick of time.
;
just
now.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
j
En
En
hora mala
Be
Be
hora buena
a la hora de
hora de esta;
la
off
Now
so
it
285
away with you

all right
it is
well
at this very time.
ahora.
moment.
Hora menguada.
Fatal
At a seasonable time.
buena hora.
For horas.
Sefior de horca y
Minute by minute ; by instants.

Lord of the manor, with civil and
cuchillo.
criminal
jurisdiction
within
the
limits of his estate.
Horma de zapatero.
Horma de sombrero.
Horma 6 pared horma.
Shoemaker's
last.
Hatter's block.
dry wall, built without lime and

mortar.
To
ask a person for things which he

himself needs.
Al hospital por hilas 6 por mantas.
Hoy
dia
hoy en dia
6 hoy en
el
Nowadays.
dia.
This very day.

Rather to-day than to-morrow.
Hoy
por hoy.
Antes hoy que manana.
De hoz y de coz.
La hoz en
el
haza, y el
hombre en
caza.
The work
waiting,
and the workmen
idling.
Huecos de
Un
Headlong.
la
las olas.
huevo, y ese huero.
The trough
To
of the sea (nau.).
have an only child, and that an
invalid.
Huevo de
juanelo.
Anything that seems
difficult,
but
is
really easy to do.
For a
huevo.
trifle
Boiled eggs.
A humo de
A hurto.
In haste
pajas.
Idas.
igual
No
tiene igual.
de
without reflection.
stealth.
Briefly
promptly.
Departure, never to return.
;
Frequent
En
a low price.
Candied yolks of eggs.

Feigned modesty or humility.
By
En dos idas y venidas.

Ida del humo.
at
Huevos pasados por agua.

Huevos de faltriquera.
Humildad de garabato.
visits.
Instead of
He
in lieu
has not his equal
less.
Sin igual.
Not
to
be equalled.
of ...
he
is
match-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
286
De
la
To be inexperienced.
Transient impressions.
primera impresi6n.
Impresiones peregrinas.
De primera instancia.
Al instante.
For
Instantly
instante.
Jaque mate
Jaque de aqui
grandes, 6 a largas jornadas.

fin
de
interest.
continually.
from here
Good God
To appear
A
A
impulse.
avaunt
In an instant.
decir Jesus.
Jesus mil veces
la gala del nino Jesus.
Al
Incessantly
Away
En un
i
first
Compound
Checkmate
on the
to ex-
Immediately.
Interns de interns.
i
Rome
Papal commission at
amine books.
Congregaci6n del indice.
very devout, yet go to

every place of amusement.
With celerity ; by forced marches.
At the end
la Jornada.
For jubilo.
Falto de juicio.
Rarely
To be
at last.
happening but seldom.
injudicious, unwise.
For juego 6 por modo de juego.

Juego de bolos.
In
Juego de bochas.
Juego de prendas.
A bowling alley.
A game of forfeits.
A nest of small boxes.
A pun a quibble
Juego de cajoncitos.
Juego de palabras.
jest.
Ninepins.
a play upon
words.
Juego de manos.
Juego de pelota.
Juggling
feats
of dexterity.
tennis court.
Juego de coche.
Juego de velas.
Juez pesquisidor.
Coroner.
A juicio
According to the opinion of experts.

In bulk ; by wholesale.
de
peritos.
de por junto.
mas no por mi casa.
Por junto
Justicia,
Running gear ;
En justos, y en verenjustos.
En justo, y en creyente.
En justos, y en creyentes
Campo de labor.
!
Al lado.
i
De
un lado
lado.
Lago de
complete
suit
of
sails
(nau.) .
Justice, but not against myself.
Rightly or wrongly.
At once
immediately.
It is positively true
cultivated field.
Very near by ; close

Get out of the way
!
Incidentally.
leones.
shafts.
den of
lions.
at
hand.
SPANISH IDIOMS,
Lagrimas de San Pedro.
Pebbles
287
or
thrown at
stones
any
person.
Lagrimas de
Poca
lana,
la
The morning dew
Aurora.
y esa en
But
zarzas.
little,
and
(Aurora's tears).
little with much
that
tribulation.
At another man's expense.
costa de lanas.
De
From
lance en lance.
time to time
from one act
to another.
A
.
A
A
In a short time, and with

at second hand.
;
pocos lances.
De
lance.
little
labor.
Cheap
At all hours ; frequently.

With effort ; severely ; with
laudes.
punta de lanza.
all
one's
might.
Duty paid by nobles
Lanzas.
in lieu of mili-
tary service.
Lanza en
vista.
Slowly
Toda
Largo de lengua.
Leche de viejos.
a la legua
lengthwise.
Old wine.
Leche de tierra.
Como una leche.
;
at length
From one end to the other.

An impudent, ill-spoken person.
largo a largo.
A legua
All sails set (nau.).

Sooner or later.
vela larga.
la corta, 6 a la larga.
De
for action.
Ready
la larga.
Magnesia.
a leguas
desde
Very
soft
Very
far.
and tender.
media legua.
Lengua de aspid.
De
From mouth
lengua en lengua.
Lengua muerta.
Lengua
Lengua de tierra.
Media lengua.
Mala lengua.
eloquent person.
tongue of land.
An
Lijero 6 suelto de lengua.
dead language.
An
fardida.
A la letra.
A letra vista,
A ley de caballero,
sharp, unscrupulous tongue.

to mouth.
indistinct or lisping speech.
slanderer.
Imprudently
talkative.
Literally; exactly.
At
de Cristiano
sight.
Upon my word
on the word of a
gentleman, or a Christian
Ley
del
embudo.
Severity for others,

ourselves.
Libertad provisional.
Liberation on
bail.
indulgence
for
SPANISH IDIOMS.
288
Libertad de estado.
The unmarried
El libro del mundo.
Knowledge of the world.
Ligero de dedos.
Light-fingered.
Lightly
la ligera.
De
expeditiously.
Rashly;
ligero.
Limpio de polvo y
easily.
Clear of
paja.
state.
all
charges.
net price.
;
En
limpio.
Lisa y llanamente.
In substance
Lista del equipaje.
Muster-roll of a ship's company.
Openly and
Del lobo un pelo, y ese de
la frente.
tontas, y a locas.
luengas vias, luengas mentiras.
frankly.
Accept from a miser anything which

he may give you.
Lugares de un combate.
Inconsiderately; without reflection.

Travellers tell strange tales.
Quarters in a sea-fight.
Lugares comunes.
Lugar de behetria.
Commonplace
topics.
place where perfect equality prevails.
A
A
lumbre de
Very
pajas.
On
lumbre mansa.
Ni por lumbre.
A buena luz.
Carefully
La
luz
de
la
Ambiguously
raz6n.
At daybreak
la liana.
Simply
De
Everywhere
llano en llano.
Totally
la cinta,
el
perro en
without wards, worn on the flap

of the coat pocket, by honorary
royal chamberlains in Spain.
Key
tras Have.
6 de lleno en
sin cuerda.
master-key.
Under lock and
key.
palm's breadth.
Full to the brim.
Lleno de bote en bote.

lleno
way.
sincerely.
being really careless.
Llave maestra.
De
completely.
a parade of care, whilst
Spiritual power.
Debajo de Have, 6
Llave de la mano.
light.
evidently.
in every
candidly
To make
la cocina.
Llaves de la iglesia.
Llave capona.
Madeja
a double sense.
in
Twilight, morning or evening.

Intuitive reason.
primera luz.
todas luces.
Las Haves en
due consideration.
after
Reflected or borrowed
luz.
Entre dos luces.
A
A
A
fire.
By no means.
dos luces.
Luz de
swiftly.
a slow
lleno.
Entirely
Confused
utterly
;
totally.
disordered.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
media madera.
Maderas de cuenta.
2S9
Joined or scarfed timbers (nau.).
The
principal timbers in the hull of
a ship.
Madera de respeto.
Madera del aire.
Madre patria.
Madre del tim6n.
Madre de
la
Spare masts, yards,
etc.
Horns of animals.
Mother-country.
Main piece of
rueda del tim6n.
the rudder, or rudderstock (nau.).

Barrel of the steering-wheel (nau.).
Gallows-beams (nau.).
Madres.
Maestre mayor de
Maestre de plata.
la maestranza.
First master-ship-builder.
Supercargo on board the royal Spanish galleons.
Maestre de raciones.
El mal del milano,
las alas
quebra-
Purser (nau.).
A boasting coward.
das, y el pico sano.

i
Mal haya
De mal en
Confound him
Worse and worse.
!
peor.
Mal de animo.
Mal que bien.
Mal por mal.
Heart-sore.
Del mal
The
el
In whatever manner.
For want of something
me'nos.
Mal de mi grado
6 de
su,
6 de tu
less
of two
better.
evils.
In spite of me, or of him, or of you.
grado.
De mala
mata, nunca buena zarza,

6 buena caza.
De
mala.
One cannot make a

from a sow's
Deceitfully
in
silken
purse
ear.
an underhand man-
ner.
De manera; 6 por
En gran manera.
manera.
So that in such manner.

Very much ; in a high degree.
;
Manga 6 manga marina.

Manga de navio.
Manga de granaderos.
Hurricane
Maniobras
Upper
altas
6 bajas.
whirlwind
Extreme breadth of a
piquet of grenadiers.
or lower rigging (nau.).
Maniobras de carena.
Careening gear (nau.).
Maniobras de combate.
Preventer rigging.
Bear a hand to work
Manos a
Mano en
la
el
obra
juego.
dos manos.
Mano
a mano.
Bajo mano, 6 de mano.
waterspout.
ship.
Deal
in
Willingly
readily.
In company
Slyly
a game.
familiarly.
secretly.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
290
A manos llenas.
A mano salva.
Manos
Manos
Liberally
Without
libres.
muertas.
Artesano de manos primorosas.

De ruin mano, ruin dado.
abundantly.
risk.
Emoluments annexed to an office.

Mortmain on an inalienable estate.
A neat, able workman.
Meanness works its own punishment.
De tal mano, tal dado.

De buena mano, buen dado.
A mano salva.
A la mano de
i
The
liberal
Never
good.
Without
Dios
To
gives freely.
from those who are
risk.
the protection of
Manos de vaca.
Manos de carnero.De mano d boca.
Cows'
Juego de manteles adamascados.
man
fear evil
God
heels.
Sheep's trotters.
Suddenly
manteniente.
unexpectedly.
tablecloth with a dozen napkins.

With all one's might ; firmly.
Manto
caballeroso.
A cloak
Manto
capitular.
formerly forbidden to all but

.
the nobility.
cloak worn by members of military
orders
when assembled
chapter.
In the morning.
De manana.
Hombre de manana.
Muy de manana.
procrastinator.
early in the morning.
Very
Maquina de arbolar.
De mar a mar.
Sheers; sheer-hulk (nau.).
Baja mar.
Low
Mar
llena
6 plena
Copiously ; excessively.
water ; ebb tide.
6 plenmar.
las maravillas.
High water
Uncommonly
For maravilla.
Very seldom.
De marca.
Hombre de marca.
De mas marca.
A man
Palos de marca.
Sobre
la
marcha.
largas marchas.
Excellent of
high tide.
well
its
exquisitely.
kind.
of eminence.
Something very superior.

Buoys.
Off-hand
With
on the
spot.
celerity.
Marea parada.
Mareas vivas.
Spring
Mari-sabidilla.
blue-stocking.
Marinero de agua duke.
stay-at-home traveller.
Slack tide.
tides.
in
SPANISH IDIOMS.
271
lo marinero.
In a seamanlike manner.
martillo.
With strokes of
De
martillo.
macha martillo.
mas ni mas.
lo
Wrought
Firmly
strongly.
Without more ado
Sin
hammer.
the
metal.
heedlessly.
At most.
mas.
Ni mas, ni mnos.
Exactly
more
neither
nor
less
equally.
mas de
Mas que
; 6
mas de esto.
Sin mas aca, ni mas alia.
De mas a mas.
Mas si.
Mas que.
A mas correr.
A mas tardar.
A mas y mejor.
.
More than
Besides
Without
or ands.
still.
even.
Greatly
highly
at best.
figure-head of a ship.
halves.
In the middle.
medio.
For medio de
Medico de apelaci6n.
.
medida del deseo.
medida, 6 & sabor de su palabra.

medida de
.
By means
of ...
consulting physician.
According to one's wishes.
To
his heart's content.
By degrees
same time
in proportion
at the
as ...
Much better.
When least hoped.
To a wish.
Mejor que mejor.

lo mejor.
cual mejor.
De memoria.
By
Flaco de memoria.
A
A
Hombre menudo.
heart.
forgetful
man.
poor, miserable fellow.

Small copper coin.
Menudos.
For menudo.
A la menuda.
Merced de tierra.
Minutely
By
Muchas mercedes o muchas gracias.

Brava mermelada
Mesa de milanos.
Mesa redonda.
Media mesa.
;
With the utmost speed.

At latest.
By
A
A
if.
Although
ifs
Perhaps
The
medias.
but
More and more
Mascar6n de proa.
En
this.
by
retail.
retail.
grant of land.
thanks for your kindness.
Many
A
A
pretty mess
scanty table.
Table d'hote in a hotel.
Servants' table.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
292
Mesa
Cross-table
traviesa.
Mesas de guarnici6n.
the
in
of a
refectory
convent, where the superior sits.

Channels to which the shrouds are
fastened (nau.).
Mesas de guarnici6n de palo mayor.

Mesas de guarnici6n del trinquete.
Main channels
(nau.).
Mesilla corrida.
Fore-channels (nau.).
Landing-place on a staircase.
Miedo
Great timidity.
cerval.
Lo mio, mio
small instalments.
By
migajadas.
Vida y milagros.
Mina amparada.
and behavior.
mine upon which the assessment
work has been done.
What is mine is mine ; what is yours
Life, character,
lo
tuyo de entream-
bos.
is
La mitad y
otro tanto.
The
ours.
half,
and
as
much more
(twice
much
as half).
Used to avoid
a direct answer as to quantity and
as
number.
La mitad
del ano con arte y engano,

la
otra
mitad con engano y arte.
y
De
Without any
In print
molde.
Moliente y corriente.
Molino de sangre.
visible
means of
liveli-
hood.
;
published
to the purpose.
Al momento.
Right ; just ; exact.

Mill turned by men or animals.
In a moment ; immediately.
Por mementos.
Momento de buen tiempo.
An
Mondo
Pure
y lirondo.
Successively ; continually.
interval of good weather.
;
without admixture.
Moneda de vel!6n.
Moneda sonante.
Copper coin
Casa de moneda.
Moneda de duendes.
Mint.
Monte alto.
Monte bajo.
Monte de piedad
Montes hiemales.
A lofty forest.
A copse or grove.
A government pawn-broking
token money.
Specie.
6 monte pio.
Small copper coin.
office.
Mountains covered with perpetual

snow.
Mont6n de
Mont6n de
gente.
tierra.
montones.
De mont6n
A crowd.
A very old
and infirm person.

Abundantly in quantity.
Together without separation or
;
6 en mont6n.
tinction.
dis-
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Sobre
ello,
morena.
do
If you
you
not,
will
be punished.
A pale or deathly color.

A brown or black woman
Color mortecino.
Mosca en
293
leche.
dressed in
white.
Mosca muerta.
Bravo troncho de mozo.

roncero.
A stout, well-disposed youth.

A thief.
A greedy boy needs a severe master.
viejo d beato.
The young
Mozo de garabato.
Al mozo alcucero amo
De mozo palacio, de
&.
person spiritless in appearance,

but not in reality.
love
amusement
the old,
virtue.
mozo amanado,
la
mujer
al lado.
An
industrious
marry
Muela 6 rueda de molino.
Millstone.
Muelas de
As
En una
gallo.
young man should
early.
toothless as a cock.
In intolerable pain.
A good end ; a contrite death.
muerte.
Buena muerte.
Bajo pena de muerte.
muerte, 6 a vida.
On
Mujer de gobierno, 6 mujer de su
Housekeeper; or woman
varonil.
A
A clever,
Mujer de bigotes.
Mujer de estado honesto.
La prim era mujer escoba, y la segun-
A man
da senora.
La mujer y
at all risks.
commanding woman.
spinster.
often treats his second wife
better than his
galga en la manga.
la
skilled in
feminine pursuits.
masculine woman.
casa.
Mujer
pain of death.
Kill or cure
little
first.
woman and
a small dog are
the best.
La mujer y la
sardina de rostros en la
ceniza.
la mujer casta Dios

Muerte arrebatada.
Pan de munici6n.
De
la basta.
munici6n.
The fireside
woman.
God
duties are best for a
protects a virtuous
death.
Brown bread for the soldiers.

Done in a hurry, and therefore
Musica ratonera.
Harsh
Con
Dismissing a person
But no ; not so.
music
voices)
la miisica
d otra parte.
Pues no.
En
me"nos de nada
Nada
6 en una nada.
entre dos platos.
Ventanas de
la nariz.
woman.
A sudden
(of
who annoys
In an instant.
Much
The
badly.
or
instruments
cry and
nostrils.
little
wool.
one.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
294
En
derecho de
Selfish care for one's
las narices.
Natural y figura, hasta
la sepultura.
own
interest.
Original disposition and temper are
hard to change.
Navio de aguente.
Navio de media garra.
A
A
ship crowding sail (nau.).

vessel that carries no topsails
Boda de
(nau.).
noisy rout and confusion.
negros.
Ninos de la doctrina.
Ni
al
nino
el bollo, ni al
Santo
el
Charity children.
Never leave a promise unfulfilled.
voto.
Desde
j
Que
la
From
What
nino.
nino envuelto
noche chichirinoche, y a
la
manana chichirinada.
La noche de mafras.
Noche buena.
Noche toledana.
Noche y dia.
Nombre de pila.
Buena 6 mala
nota.
El nuncio
la
infancy.
foolishness
Inconstant.
That night you remember (long ago)
Christmas.
restless night.
Always
; constantly.
Christian name.
casa del nuncio.
Good or bad standing in society.

The mad-house in Toledo.
Maintop-gallant shrouds (nau.).
Obenquitos del juanete mayor.
Obenque partido.
Obra de Romanos.
shroud carried away (nau.).
Anything which
is
very
accomplishment.
Work which fails to attain
Obra en pecado mortal.

La obra del Escorial.
Said of a thing that
Por ocasi6n.
By
is
difficult of
its
object.
very long in
doing.
De
En
oculto.
Incognito.
oculto.
Oficial
Secretly.
Chief clerk.
mayor.
Oficial retirado.
Half-pay
Oficio de concejo, honra sin
pro-
it
oidas.
By
Ojo de gallo.
Hasta los ojos.
Ni los ojos a las
a
officer.
Those who serve a republic must do
vecho.
De
chance.
for honor, not gain.
hearsay.
Red, sparkling wine.
To
cartas, ni las
manos
the utmost.
Neither be inquisitive nor dishonest.
las areas.
Ojo marginal,
al canto,
al
margen.
marginal note.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
i
Attend to what you are about

At random without measuring.
Ojo a la margen
ojo de buen cubero.
!
$. ojos vistos.
A
A
Visibly
clearly
openly.
de alguno.
the quantity.
Face to face.
de
At sight.
Out of sight, out of mind.
By
ojo.
los ojos
Al ojo.
Cuan
295
lejos
ojo, tan lejos de cora-
z6n.
For onzas.
With a sparing hand.
Las oraciones.
The Angelus
the Angelus
la
Con
las orejas tan largas.
animals, especially the bull.

In close proximity ; very near.
Dressed in one's very best.

show our value of things by the
care we take of them.
oro y azul.
oro en pano.
We
Como
i
Orza 4
orza
la
barba
Hard-a-lee
(nau.).
Luff! luff!
Otro que
attention.
Horned
orejas.
la orilla.
De
vespers.
At early candlelight.
With great care and
oraci6n en punto.
Animal de cuatro
the bell that calls to

;
Another such.
til.
Cada oveja con
Like seeks
su pareja.
like.
Ovejas y abejas en tus dehesas.
Keep your sheep and your bees in

your own domain if you would
Oveja chiquita, cada ano corderita.
Small
profit
by them.
persons look
younger than
they are.
Mi padre
Nuestros padres 4 pulgadas, y nosotros a brazadas.
!
Los padres A yugadas, y
los hijos
pulgadas.
De padre
santo, hijo diablo.
No, indeed
What
never
the father saves the children
squander.
Even a large inheritance seems small,

when divided among many heirs.
Good
parents have sometimes bad
children.
padre endurador, 6 guardador,

6 & padre ganador,
;
hijo gastador
hijo
Un
Miserly parents have often spendthrift
padre para cien
hijos para
hijos,
un padre.
y no cien
The
love of parents for their chilis greater than that of chil-
dren
dren
En
children.
desprendedor.
tres pagas.
Late
for their parents.
badly, or never, paid.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
296
En daca
las pajas,
6 en alza
alia esas
The speed
pajas.
;
Chico pajaro para tan gran jaula
or facility with which a
thing can be done.

small bird for so large a cage
(ridicule of pretension).
Corta pala.
Slow
De
dull
awkward.
Sobre 6 bajo su palabra,
verbal promise, without security.

Upon his word (/>., without other
Palabra de rey.
An asseveration
palabra.
security) .
la
media palabra.
primera palabra.
of truth (by the word

of the king).
At the first word (denoting quickness of apprehension).
With
half a
word (denoting
facility
of persuasion).
Buenas palabras.
The
soft
words which turn away
wrath.
Palabras mayores.
Palabras de presente.
Injurious or insulting expressions.

The words of betrothal.
Palabras de matrimonio.
Palabras de oraculo.
Palabras de buena crianza.
En
una, en dos, 6 en pocas palabras.
Palabras f6rmulas.
promise of marriage.
Oracular or enigmatical words used
to disguise one's meaning.

Expressions of courtesy.
In a few words ; briefly.
Exact words used
in quoting
ver-
batim.
Palabra pesada.
An
De
Words
palabra en palabra.
insulting word.
lead to
more words and
dis-
pute.
Palabras de la ley.
Palabras asperas.
Actionable words.
Palabra picante.
Palabras al aire.
Palabra prenada.
Hard,
bitter words.
stinging, sharp
word.
Words not worthy of notice.

word or sentence conveying a
double meaning.
Medias palabras.
Words
Palabras libres.
Indecent words or expressions.
De paleta 6 a pelo.
En dos paletas.
Un palmo de tierra.
Shortly; briefly.
span, or very small
intentionally
mumbled.
Opportunely.
amount of
land.
Palmo a palmo.
Inch by inch
with great difficulty.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
A palos.
De
tal
palo, tal astilla
astilla
mismo palo.
Pan de la boda,
del
297
Forcibly; violently.
chip of the same block
duces
Wedding cake
pan y cuchillo.
'A pan y man teles.
Pan de perro.
Pan bazo.
Del ruin pano nunca buen sayo.
like pro-
like.
;
honeymoon.
Familiarly; assiduously; frequently.

Bed and board.
Very bad bread.

Brown bread.
You can never make a
silken purse
of a sow's ear.
Pafios calientes.
Endeavors to stimulate a person to
En
In
effort.
panos menores.
dishabille.
Escritor de papilones sueltos.
A small pamphlet.
A pamphleteer.
De
Wide open.
Papel volante.
A
A
A
par en par.
la par.
Jointly; equally.
pairs ; two and two.
Near ; joining ; like . .
By
pares.
par de
Numeros
Round
pares.
Pares y nones.
Sin qu ni para que .
Odd
or even numbers.
or even.
Para con
el,
no vale nada.
Without rhyme or reason.

According to him, it is worth nothing.
For so much ; for that.

To one and the same end.
Para eso.
Paro en uno.
;
Para esta
Para entre
I
Para qu
You
los dos.
will pay for that

Between us two.
Why?
Para conmigo.
Al parecer.
Compared
Por
To
el
bien parecer.
Pared de
De ocho
cal
y canto.
dias a esta parte.
; to all appearance.
save appearances.
wall of rough stone and mortar.
Within these
On
De
De
De
parte A parte.
From
parte.
By
orders
On
the
pasada.
Paseante en corte.
buen
pasar.
with me.
Seemingly
Por todas partes.
Un
hands
all
on
all sides.
side to side * through.

;
way
One who
last eight days.

;
by command.
;
in passing.
has neither
office, employment, nor money.

competency or maintenance.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
298
Be
Santas pascuas
Al paso del buey.
Mas que de paso.
Very
A
A
Fast; quickly.
it
so
Quickly
buen paso.
cada paso.
Vista de paso.
slowly.
in haste
hastily
Frequently.
cursory view.
Al paso que
Pasta ; 6 buena pasta.
whilst
At the same time that
Excessive meekness and mildness.
A
A
pasto.
Abundantly
todo pasto.
plentifully.
prescribed diet.
Pastor universal.
The Pope.
Plainly
pata la liana,
without ornament or affec-
tation.
On
pata.
foot.
Patas arriba.
Upside down.
Patas de perdiz.
la
pata coja.
person wearing red stockings.
Hopscotch (a game played by hopping on one foot)

Ducks and pigs should not be kept
.
El pato y
el
lechon, del cuchillo
al
long before cooking.
asador.
Patron de bote, 6 de lancha.

Entrada de pavana.
Cockswain of a boat.
Pasos de pavana.
A
A
A
Bandera de paz.
Gente de paz.
Unseemly pretension.
grave, steady gait.
flag of truce.
friend
(answer to
"Who
goes
there?").
En
En
;
haz y en paz.
With one's consent.
paz.
clear.
Quits
Sinner that I am
;
Pecador de mi
Entre pecho y espalda.
In the stomach.
Numerata pecunia.
Pedazo del alma
Pedrada 6 pedradas
My
dear
You
deserve to be stoned
Ready money.
sobre peine.
Muerte pelada.
Pellizco de monja.
Pelo arriba
pelo
Gente de
De medio
al
6 a contra-pelo.
pelo.
pelo.
pelo.
my
love.
!
Lightly; slightly.
Baldhead (a nickname).
lozenge ; a sugar-drop.
Against the grain.
With the grain.

Pvich people.
Belonging to the
society.
middle
class
of
SPANISH IDIOMS.
En
Barebacked.
pelo.
medios pelos.
Half-seas over.
The special circumstances by which

we know a thing.
Pelos y senates.
Pena
aflictiva.
Corporeal punishment.
As soon as.
With complete
penas.
Ni pena,
ni gloria.
An
Cuenta pendiente.
Deuda
With
pendiente.
pend6n herido.
pensamiento.
balance unpaid.
all
speed and diligence.
Quickly; immediately.
Ni por pensamiento.
Not even
On
peonza.
Como
indifference.
unsettled account.
En un
299
pera en tabaque.
in thought.
foot.
Like a pear in a work-basket (said

of things carefully secreted)
Percances 6 gajes del
De
The drawbacks
oficio.
pe"rdida.
Con
campo
em-
things difficult to obtain).

favor ; with your leave.
Under
perd6n.
perilla,
office or
Partridges in the open field (said of
raso.
Pereza, Have de pobreza.
De
an
ployment.
In a hazardous, perilous manner.
One who becomes a vagrant.
Pan perdido.
Perdices en
to
Sloth opens the door to poverty.

the purpose ; at a proper time
To
6 de perlas.
excellently.
Perro viejo.
clever, experienced
man
(an old
dog).
Todo
como
junto,
al
perro los palos.
The day
in
Como perro con vejiga, con
cencerro,
con maza, 6 con cuerno.
A tragala perro.
A otro perro con
i
Mai que
le
peso.
Pez con pez.
pica seca.
Pico de oro.
Like a dog with his
ese hueso
plata,
tail
between
his
legs.
Forcibly
!
pese.
peso de oro, de
En
of reckoning may be long

coming, but it comes at last.
6 de dinero.
with violence.
Tell that to marines
In spite of him.
To succeed by means of money.
In the air.
Quite empty unoccupied.
With great labor, and without
;
A man
utility.
of great eloquence.
fluke of an anchor (nau.).
Pico de un ancla.
The
Pico de viento.
With the wind
in the face.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
300
Picos y cabos pendientes.

pie" del dueno, estie"rcol para la
heredad.
Odds and ends.

The presence of
Pi6 con bola.
Exactly
El
the master
essen-
is
to the prosperity of the estate.
tial
neither too
much nor
too
little.
pi
de
la obra.
At your
At once
Al pi
de
la letra.
Literally.
los pies
Al
de V.
pi
En un
pie"
de
Siete pies
pie"
En
mano.
de tierra.
la
Al pi
without delay.
Tenaciously.
In an instant.
pie" juntillo.
Del
service.
Very
shortly.
la hora.
Instantly
de
The
tierra.
Motionless
quedo.
without delay.
grave.
without trouble.
Constantly;
pie.
firmly;
up-
erectly;
rightly.
1
ante pie .
Pi
A
A
pi
Step by step.
firme.
Steadfastly.
On
pi6 llano.
even ground; easily; commo-
diously.
1
Pie a tierra
A
A
Alight from your horse
piedra y a lodo.
Hermetically sealed.
piedra perdida.
To
pile stones loosely.
Not even by a thought.

Not done conscientiously ;
Ni por pienso.
A moda de pierna de nuez.
pierna en
el lecho,
el
brazo en
pecho.
pierna suelta, 6 a pierna tendida.
of the breadths of a sheet.
We
must employ the proper means

if we would attain our objects.
el
care-
obliquely.
lobes of a walnut.
lessly
The
One
Las piernas de una nuez.

Pierna de una sabana.
La
At one's ease
without care
com-
fortably.
;
Buena 6
gentil pieza
Pieza de leva.
fine fellow
The gun
fired
(sometimes ironical).
by
vessels
on
setting
sail.
Pieza por pieza.

Piloto
de
altura.
With great care
Piloto practice.
Coast
Como un
To
pino.
pino de oro.
minutely.
Pilot of the high seas.

pilot.
be upright, elegant.
Upright (applied to
bells
half- turned in ringing).
which are
SPANISH IDIOMS.
301
Al mas pintado.
To
Piojo pegadizo.
In danger ; on the point of ...

A troublesome hanger-on.
Como
An
pique
piojo en costura.
de arz6n.
Cuando
pitos flautas,
cuando
flautas
little
by
driblets.
Horse-pistols.
Events are sometimes the reverse of
expectations.
pitos.
intruder.
Litth by
pistos.
Pistolas
the wisest, the most able.
placer
With the
greatest pleasure
at one's
pleasure.
Copied word
plana renglon.
for
word
arriving just
in time.
Plantas.
Boasts.
De
Anew
planta.
las plantas
En plata.
Como una plata.
De platica en platica.
En publica plaza.
Briefly
servant.
without circumlocution.
Shining like
From word
silver,
clean and pretty.
to word.
In public..
On
pie i to.
Pleito bueno, 6 malo,
de tu mano
el
condition.
It is well to
have the judges on one's
side in a lawsuit.
escribano.
Plenitud de los tiempos.
from the foundation.
Your most obedient
de V.
plomo.
At the appointed time.

Perpendicularly.
A
A
Buena pluma.
Golpe de pluma.
good penman.
stroke of the pen;
a dash with
a pen.
Plumada de
tinta.
penful of ink.
notices the poor.
Pobreza nunca alza cabeza.
Nobody
Poco a poco.
De poco tiempo
Latterly.
Hombre
A
A
Gently
acd.
para poco.
pocos ; por poco ; en poco.

El polio cada ano, y el pato madri-
gado.
Polio con espolones.
Polvos de
softly
coward
little
by
little.
a pusillanimous man.
in a short time.
;
Immediately
poco.
Gente de
polvillo.
la
madre
Limpio de polvo y
Celestina.
paja.
To
be very near a thing.
Eat chickens when young, and ducks
when they
A man
Day
Any
are older.
getting into years.
laborers.
secret
or miraculous way of
doing a thing.
Free from all charges.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
302
Un
polvo.
ni
por qu
sin
que
snuff.
much.
About midsummer.
By hook or by crook.
Here or there.
Por c, 6 por be.

Por aca, 6 por alia.
Por mas que, 6 por mucho que.
Por si acaso.
Sin qu
pinch of
For that
For tanto 6 por ende.

For San Juan.
for so
In vain.
ni
If by chance.
para que.
i
por cierto
Si
De por
Yes indeed
By
si.
Por tanto.
certainly
itself.
Wherefore.
Por cuanto.
Whereas.
Por
Through.
entre.
Porci6n c6ngrua.
paid for the subsistence of a
Money
priest.
In an obstinate manner.
porfia.
Posada con
asistencia.
Posibles.
posta.
Por
la posta.
la postre.
Por
fin
y postre.
Potencias.
Lo
ultimo de la potencia.
Potencias de una pieza.
Board and lodging.
Means
wealth
Designedly
With
all
income.
on purpose.
speed
in haste.
In the long run
at last.
Finally.
The nine rays about the infant Jesus.

The utmost effort one can make.
The range of a piece of artillery.
Predio urbano.
A piece of arable ground.

A dwelling-house in town or country.
Casa de prendas.
Second-hand furniture shop.
Prendas.
Endowments
Juego de prendas.
A game
La
These presents
Predio rustico.
presente.
now
of
accomplishments.
forfeits.
(i.e.,
the paper I
Preso por uno, preso por ciento.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
De
Prestigio de la elocuencia.
For a short time.

Power of eloquence.
De
De
Promptly ;
All at once
prestado.
presto.
buenas a primeras.
am
writing).
swiftly.
;
rashly
without reflec-
tion.
Primes.
Cousins (a title given by the kings

of Spain to the grandees)
.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Primo hermano.
En pro.
Hombre de
In favor
Buena pro
first
pro.
303
cousin.
of.
worthy man.
Much good may
For nuestra proa.

Promotor fiscal.
Ahead of us
it
do you
(nau.j.
secular or ecclesiastical attorneygeneral.
De
pronto.
Without premeditation.
Un
pronto.
Por
el
pronto.
sally.
Provisionally.
moment.
Primer pronto.
Propio marte 6 ingenio.
Al propio.
Properly.
Junta 6 sesi6n de propios y de arbi-
Committee of ways and means.
First
By
own
one's
efforts.
trios.
Conformably
proposicidn.
proportionally
as
far as.
On
prop6sito.
Fuera de prop6sito.
Hombre de provecho.
i
Buen provecho
the by
By
prop6sito.
De
for the purpose.
purpose.
Untimely inconveniently.
A useful man.
;
May
it
do you much good
meals)
(used at
Auto de providencia.
A prueba de bomba.
Bomb
prueba y
estese.
Stopped or delayed without being
prueba
de prueba.
Firm
Provisional judgment.
proof; satisfactorily.
despatched.
A
A
A
solid.
puerta cerrada.
Secretly.
cada puerta su duena,
In the care of a household nothing

must be neglected.
De
puerta en puerta.
esotra puerta.
las
Begging from door to door.

That won't do ; nothing can persuade
puertas de la muerte.
me
Derechos de puertas.
Entry dues.
Puerto habilitado.
port of entry.
Well, and what of that?
pues?
Pues si
<iY
Yes indeed
to the contrary.
Very near death's door.
Why
Puesta de
Sunset.
sol.
(ironical).
not? what else? what then?
<iPues y due"?
SPANISH IDIOMS.
304
pujos.
Slowly
a thing without help.

With the strength of the hand.
pulso.
Puntada de costado.
De puntillas.
Hombre 6 mujer de
with difficulty.
To do
For sus pulgares.
stitch in the side.
Softly
A man
punto.
gently ; on tiptoe.
or woman of distinction.
Punto crudo.
The moment
happens.
Late ; inopportunely.
punto crudo.
Punto de apoyo.
in
which something
The fulcrum of a
lever
the point
round which a wheel moves.
The theme
Punto de meditaci6n.
or topic of a speech or
dissertation.
Punto en voca.
Punto menos.
Silence.
trifle
smaller.
Opportunely
Al punto.
Al punto que.
With all its details point

At once immediately.
As soon as at the time.
As a rule generally.
buen punto'.
Punto por punto.
pufiados.
De
for point.
Por punto general.

A punto fijo; con puntualidad.
just in time.
Exactly
with certainty.
Plentifully
abundantly.
puro.
Extremely
by dint
A quema
close
contiguous.
Very
ropa.
Fuera de quicio.
Quiebras del terreno 6 de la
Violently
tierra.
of.
unnaturally.
Undulations of the ground or surface.
Bien 6 mal quisto.
Well received, generally beloved
or
the contrary.
Rabia de hambre.
Desperate hunger.
Filo rabioso.
A wire edge.
A scanty allowance.
A ship easy at her anchors
Raci6n de hambre.
Buen
De
radero.
raiz.
From
the root
Bienes raices.
Landed
Courageously
raja tabla.
Raja broqueles.
De rama en rama.
En
rama.
Ramillete de Constantinople.
(nau.)
entirely.
property.
;
vigorously.
Braggart.
Changing continually.
Raw
material
pyramid of
crude
fruits
served at table.
stuff.
and sweetmeats
SPANISH IDIOMS.
rapa terr6n.
Entirely
305
from the
Boca rasgada.
Large or full eyes.

A wide mouth.
Caballero raso.
Soldado
A common
Ojos rasgados.
raso.
private gentleman.
soldier
Tiempo 6 cielo raso.

Cielo raso de una cama.
Clear weather
Al raso.
In the open
Al cabo de un rato.
After a
little
Buen
while.
De
A
A
6 a
good
From time
ratos.
a private.
air.
time.
to time
occasionally.
In leisure hours.
ratos perdidos.
Farewell
Dios, hasta otro rato.
Raya muy
clear sky.
Canopy of a bed.
rato.
rato en rato
root.
He
alto.
till
stands
another time.
in
very high
his
pro-
fession.
Razon de
An
de banco
pi
absurd reason
motive
groundless
an unsatisfactory expla-
nation.
Razon adelantada.
A precocious
For raz6n.
Consequently.
Want
raz6n de catorce.
En
real
of punctuality in accounts.
With regard to.

With my money and my labor.
Cash down.
Water flowing through an aperture
raz6n.
Con mi
Un
mind.
y mi pala.
real sobre otro.
Real de ajma.
the
of a real, similar to a
size
miner's inch.
De arrebato.
Campana de arrebato.
En un arrebato.
En rebeldia.
De rebozo.
recado
a buen recado
Suddenly.
Alarm
At the
By
bell
tocsin.
first
impulse.
default.
Secretly.
;
mucho
Well guarded
recado.
with great care and
attention.
Mai recado.
In a destructive manner.
red barredera.
bad or mischievous
and reason.
Al rodapelo.
Against
all
De
Anew
once more.
A
A
refresco.
rule
with reluctance.
regafia dientes.
Reluctantly
regla.
Regularly
prudently.
action.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
306
Order
Regla y compas, cuanto mas.
Heaven's
is
more
first
law
Commonly;
generally.
Relaci6n de ciego.
Deposition under oath.

Anything read monotonously.
De
De
relance.
Fortuitously
remate.
Utterly
juracla.
by chance.
irremediably.
Por remate.
Finally.
Sin remedio.
Without
A
A
A
A
remiendos.
Piecemeal.
remo y
remo y
sin sueldo.
Labor
vela.
Very
fail.
in vain.
expeditiously.
repe!6n.
By degrees
By the way
repeso.
With one's whole
repelones.
De
De
the
Standard.
Regla fija.
For lo regular.
Relaci6n
order, the better.
little
by
little.
in haste.
force,
moral or
physical.
De
Extra
repuesto.
Memoria
De
of precaution.
; spare ; by way
treacherous memory.
resbaladiza.
resba!6n.
Erroneously ; unsteadily.
great crime which none but a
Caso reservado.
En
De
resoluci6n.
In short
respeto.
For ceremony's
superior can absolve.

;
in
a word.
sake.
Al respeto.
Relatively
Responsabilidad solidaria.
Joint responsibility.
Una
respuesta agria.
En
reve"s
Reves de
Al reves
A
A
A
me
media
medalla.
la vesti,
y andese
asi.
Quickly
todo
If the worst
rigor.
rio revuelto.
rio revuelto
in exchange.
upside down.
fast.
comes
to the vrjrst.
At most.
rigor.
At half speed.
rienda.
in return
Diametrically opposite in character.

Utterly heedless and careless.
rienda suelta.
En
ganancia de pesca-
dores.
La
limit.
Conjointly.
On the contrary
del reve"s.
la
reply.
In revenge
revancha.
revuelta.
Al
keen
Without
resto abierto.
respectively.
risa del conejo.
In confusion and disorder.

There are always some who
by confusion.
An
hysteric laugh.
profit
SPANISH IDIOMS.
El pi!6n de
Romeria de
la
307
The
romana.
cerca, raucho vino y po-
ca cera.
drop-ball of a steelyard.
Pilgrimages are often pretexts
diversion.
Rompe esquinas.
De rompe y rasga.
Rompe galas.
Bullies.
Parte de rosario.
Rosca de pan.
Rosca de mar.
for
Undaunted.
One who
goes carelessly dressed.

third part of the rosary, or five
tens.
A
A
twisted loaf of bread.
Sea
biscuit.
without exception.
roso y villoso.
Totally
rostro firme.
Resolutely.
De
rota
Rueda
Rueda
6 de rota batida.
del pavo real.

del salm6n, u otro pescado.
In a sudden, careless manner.
The spread
round
of a peacock.
of salmon, or other
tail
slice
fish.
Mas
More
ruido que nueces.
and
Dos
al saco,
el
saco en
tierra.
noise than nuts
much
cry
wool.
little
Between two
stools
one
falls
to the
ground.
Sacristan de amen.
De sacudida.
Con su sal y pimienta.
One who
blindly
adheres
to
the
opinion of another.
Resulting from.
With labor and
difficulty
with in-
tent to mortify another.
Sala de mil y quinientas.
The supreme
Mil y quinientas.
Lentiles.
of appeals in
court
Spain.
De
salto
Salto
de un
salto.
de trucha.
On
a sudden.
played by contor-
tricks
Tumbling ;
tions of the body.
Salto de viento.
Salto de coraz6n.
Palpitation
A
A
By
By
salto
saltos.
Por
de mata.
salto.
saltos
Seiior
de
sudden
shifting of the wind.
leaps
salva.
By
foreboding.
of punishment.
by jumps.
Irregularly
y corcovos.
flight for fear
fits
and
by
turns.
starts.
person of great distinction.
Salvo ende.
Except.
A
A
su salvo.
To
sangre y fuego.
With blood and
one's satisfaction.
fire
mercilessly.
SPANISH IDIOMS,
308
Sanguijuelas del estado.
Sinecure offices (drawing pay, but
Carta de sanidad.
Casa de sanidad.
En un santiame'n.
Directly
Santificaci6n de las fiestas.
The keeping
Entre santa y santo, pared de cal y
Shun temptation.
doing nothing for

bill
it).
of health.
Health
office.
instantly.
of holidays.
canto.
Santo y bueno.
All right
agree with you
well,
well!
santo tapado.
el santo dia.
Cautiously
Todo
The whole
Santo de pajares.
Santo var6n.
All-saints' day.
la banasta.
Saya
The
last shift
last
expedient.
in a friendly
Without ceremony;
manner.
satisfaccidn.
Chinese
Saya saya.
clandestinely.
day.
Hypocrite.
harmless simpleton.
Todos los Santos.

La ultima sardina de
Con
A dress
entera.
Of
su sayo.
silk.
with a train.
one's
own accord
in one's
own
mind.
A la saz6n.
A secas.
Then
There is reason in all things.

Without cause or motive.
Alone
gran seca, gran mojada.
En
seco.
seco y sin Hover.
singly.
Unexpectedly.
Secretary of state.
Secretario del despacho.

Secreto de achuelo.
Secreto a voce"s
Ship under bare poles (nau.).
Navio d palo seco.
at that time.
An open
6 secrete con chi-
secret.
secret disclosed while pretending
concealment.
rimias.
The
Seda de candongo.
finest silk, reeled
up
into small
skeins.
Segi'm y c6mo.
De 6 por segunda mano.
La segur, 6
La segur, 6
la cuchilla
la
guadana de
buen seguro.
Al seguro
De
seguro.
de
en seguro.
Just so.
At second hand.
la ley.
la parca.
The
The
invincible force of the law.
shears of the fates.
Certainly; indubitably.
Securely ; in safety or security.
Assuredly.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Sobre seguro.
Compania u
309
Confidently.
oficina
de seguros.
Insurance company or
office.
Dia entre semana.

Ni por semejas.
Semillero de vicios.
Sendos tragos de vino.

Sendos golpes.
Large draughts of wine.
week day.
By no means
Heavy blows.
Famous things.
Sendas cosas.
Con todos sus

En mi sentir.
;
nothing of the kind.
hot-bed of vice.
With
cinco sentidos.
In
attention
all
my
Por senas, 6 por mas senas.
As a
En
In proof of ...
senal
very carefully.
opinion.
stronger proof of
still
Senales de hacerse a la vela.
Sailing signals (nau.).
Senales de broma.
Fog
The
Senor de horca y cuchillo.
signals (nau.).
feudal lord
who had
and death over
En
In existence
ser.
Al sereno.
Por
si,
it.
right of
life
his serfs.
in being.
In the night air; exposed to the

evening dew.
6 por no
si
acaso, 6 por
si
If;
by chance
at
any
rate.
acaso.
Si bien.
Un
si
Although.
no
es
es.
De
por si.
Hasta la consumacidn de
los siglos.
Something ; even a little.

Apart; separately.
To the end of time.
de hierro, de oro, 6 de plata.

Por, 6 en, los siglos de los siglos.
The
For ever and
ever.
Buen
Eternal
eternal bliss.
Siglo
siglo.
Silla
de manos.
Silla
de posta.
Hombre de ambas
Sedan
sillas,
6 de todas
silla
So
Face to
silla.
Sin pies ni cabeza.

Sin un cuarto.
6 sin por que.
information; a
Notwithstanding however.
Without method or order.
;
Penniless.
Not only
sino no.
It
sitio.
color.
face.
Without cause or motive.
sino.
Real
chair.
clever fellow.
Sin qu ni para qu
Sin embargo.
No
No
life
A post-chaise.
A man of general
sillas.
De
iron, golden, or silver age.
so.
cannot be otherwise.
The king's country residence.

Under color ; on pretence.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
310
De
De
Conjointly
Over and above
Sobre
si.
Selfishly
at
After dinner.
Sobre manera.
Excessively
Suddenly
sobre viento.
socapa.
sol puesto.
Soles.
A
A
A
A
irregularly.
unexpectedly.
On pretence under color.

Tardy arrival of necessary succor.
At nightfall ; at sunset.
socapa.
El socorro de Espana.
De
superfluously.
Secretly.
Al
carefully.
Sobre comida.
De
one time.
so uno.
sobra.
Sparkling, bright eyes.

From sunrise to sunset.
sol a sol.
solas.
Alone
sus solas.
Quite alone
solape ; 6 a solapo.
la soldadesca.
In a soldierly manner.
unaided.
Furtively
in solitude.
secretly.
Pobre de solemnidad.
A decisive resolution.
A poor man in real distress.
Ni por sombra.
; 6 sombras
By no means.
Dance behind a
Resoluci6n solemne.
Sombras
invisibles.
curtain, to
show
in sharp points,
worn
only shadows.
Sombrero acantilado.
Hat cocked
En
almshouses in Spain.
In such a manner ; apparently.
in the
s6n.
Sopet6n de molino.

With what motive?
Lead soundings.
Bread toasted, and steeped
De
Suddenly
Sin t6n y sin s6n.

Â
que" s6n ? 6
<;
a s6n de que ?
Sonda del escandallo.
A
A
sopet6n.
la sordina.
lo
sordo
Secretly; privately.
a la sorda
a sordas.
Sorpresa de una
carta.
sotavento.
Banda de
sotavento.
Costa de sotavento.
De
tres
6 cuatro suelas.
Tonto de cuatro
Suelda a
libra,
Silently; quietly.
Dolor sordo.
in oil.
without warning.
suelas.
6 por
libra.
dull pain.
The act of intercepting a

Under the lee (nau.).
letter.
Lee side of the ship (nau.).

Lee shore (nau.).
Firm solid.
;
downright
Rated
Sin suelo.
To
Suelo del estribo.
The
at so
excess
rest
fool.
much
per pound.
without bounds.
of a stirrup.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
311
Suelto de lengua.
Audacious freedom of speech.
Ni por sueno.
Without care.
By no means, not even
El sueno de
sueno suelto.
De
la
la liebre.
misma
in
a dream.
hare's sleep (/>., feigned).
The same way.
suerte.
Suerte y verdad.
Appeal
De suerte.
Suma del frente
De surtido.
So that
from players to
for justice,
spectators.
6 suma de la vuelta.
Sus de gaita.
Any
En
Briefly
sustancia.
Sutileza
Tabla
la vaca.
thus.
thing
light, airy
whiff.
summarily.
Manual
de manos.
Tabla de
so as
Brought forward.
In common use.
dexterity
slight-of-hand.
group of noisy people.
The unwritten page of an infant's

mind ; canvas prepared for paint-
rasa.
ing.
Dinero en
la tabla del
Tabla de
Cash
tabla.
mundo.
rio.
ready money.
To
the public ; in public.

part of a river without perceptible
current.
Tabla de cuentas.
The
Strongly
raja tabla.
multiplication table.
vigorously
with
one's
whole strength.
Tablas
Por
Backgammon
reales.
tablilla.
table.
Indirectly.
Tablilla de mes6n.
Sign of an inn.
Tablilla de santero.
The poor-box of a hermit.

One is as bad as the other.
Tal para cual, Pedro con Juan; 6

Pascuala con Pascual.
Tal para
tit
Every one with his like
a Roland for an Oliver.
cual.
Tal por cual.

Otro que tal.
Worthless
Similar
for tat
of no importance.
very
much
alike
equally
worthless.
A
A
medra
talla.
Carelessly ; perfunctorily.
Beating the drum.
tambor.
Tanto que.
As much
Tanto monta.
It is as
as.
good
as the other
the same.
Tanto por tanto
al tanto.
At the same
price.
it is all
SPANISH IDIOMS.
312
Tantos a tantos.
Equal numbers.
En
Proportionally.
su tanto.
La mitad
Algun
En
The
y otro tanto.
Tanto nno como

Tanto monta.
whole.
Both one and the other.
otro.
tanto.
It
is all
little.
the same.
In the meanwhile.
tanto, entre tanto.
For lo tanto.
Tanto cuanto.
Ni tanto, ni tan poco.
For the same reason.
De
De
De
Without ceremony or show.

Behind the curtain.
As much
as.
Neither too
tapadilla.
tapaditas.
Now
tarde en tarde.
much nor
and then
little.
occasionally.
Tarde mal y nunca.

Tarde 6 temprano.
Tarde que temprano.
Tea de la discordia.
Slow and unpunctual.

Sooner or later.
Teas maritales.
Hymeneal
De
In a natural order.
Early or
too
late.
Anything producing discord or making mischief.
tejas abajo.
Tejado de un
el
rato, labor
para todo
torches.
Hasty work
calls for
Sin tela ni contienda.
Without a
Cada
Every one has
long repairs.
ano.
loco con su tema.
tema.
Al temple.
Teneduria de
Emulously
trial at
law.
his
hobby.
obstinately.
Painted in distemper.
libros.
Teniente de oidos.
Book-keeping.
Deaf; hard of hearing.
Extremely
tente bonete
6 hasta tente bo-
excessively.
nete.
Tercero en discordia.
Umpire between
En tercio y quinto.
En buenos terminos.
En terminos habiles.
To
disputants.
surpass another very much.
In plain terms.
On
reasonable terms
so as not to
injure another.
En qu terminos ?
En terminos terminantes.
Upon what terms?
In definite terms
punctuality.
Bn un
te'rmino
medio
6 en tanto
On
an average.
proporcional.
T^rmino medio aproximativo.
rough average.
with propriety or
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Medio
te'rmino.
Medios
313
Any prudent
step, or
taken to
an
settle
middle path
affair.
Evasions, by which one
te"rminos.
avoids a
disagreeable subject.
Malos
Ua
Rudeness
te"rminos.
A
A
terno de diamantes.
Terno
sal.
rapa terr6n.
En
casa de
Tiempo
En
Cual
tia,
mas no cada
dia.
tiempo,
great wit.
The
winter season.
Act
according to
with judgment.
tal el tiento.
Tiempo de Maricastana; 6
empo de
fortune.
Within the appointed time.

Prematurely ; in advance.
hdbil.
tiempo.
el
discourtesy.
Entirely; completely.
We must not wear out our welcome,
even in the house of a relative.
aquilonal.
tiempo
Con
diamonds.
happy and unexpected

Landed property.
seco.
Terrenes.
Terron de
set of
del
ti-
That
circumstances,
a very old story or thing.
is
Maricastana.
Cada cosa en
su tiempo, y los nabos
Everything at
its
own
time.
en adviento.
tientas.
Tierra yerma.
Tierra de sacamanchas.
Obscurely; doubtfully.
Uncultivated ground.
Fuller's earth.
Tierra pingiie\
Tierra limpia.
Fertile land.
La
La
La
tierra
Flat country
el pais d,e janja.
clear land.
place where people can
tierra del pipiripao.
fortably without labor.

The home of luxury.
primera, y esa en
Failure in the
tierra.
first
live
thing
com-
that
one
undertakes.
En cada
su uso, y en cada
tietra
When
casa su costumbre.
Tierra de ano y vez.
in
Rome, do
as the
Romans
do.
Land under
cultivation in alternate
years.
Como
tierra.
Tierra a
Abundantly;
tierra.
Tieso de cogote.
Buena tijera.
De buena tinta.
De una
tirada
good
tailor
Efficaciously
6 en una tirada.
lavishly.
Cautiously; securely.
Stiff-necked ; vain ; obstinate.
At one
stretch.
a good eater.
ably.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
314
Tiro de una mina.
The
Within a stone's throw.
de piedra.
Casi a tiro de flecha.
tiro
de
Pistola
A
A
About an arrow's
tres tiros.
flight.
three-barrelled pistol.
tiro
de escopeta.
Within gunshot.
tiro
de
At a great distance.
At once ; at one stroke.
On pretence ; under pretext.
De un
shaft of a mine.
ballesta.
tir6n.
titulo.
De
todo en todo
todo
6 en todo y por
Altogether
absolutely.
6 en un todo.
Todo el mundo
Todo un Dios.
i
abajo
All hands below
(nau.).
The whole power
God
of
(used to
indicate great difficulty).
Con todo
En un
eso.
Notwithstanding
todo.
Together
in all
however.
its
parts.
As most.
todo.
Del todo.
Entirely
En
todo y por todo.

Sobre todo.
Wholly
Toldo del
Quarter-deck awning (nau.).
quite.
absolutely.
Principally
alcazar.
specially.
Toldo de combes.
Main deck awning
A
A
topa tolondr6n.
Inconsiderately
tolondrones.
Precipitately
Toma
de raz6n.
Una toma de
Toma
De tomo
(nau.).
rashly.
giddily.
Entries in account-books.
quina.
dose of quinine.
There
what
Of weight
y lomo.
well
Sin t6n ni s6n.
of importance.
Without motive or cause ; without
Tonto de
rhyme or reason.
A
A
capirote.
tontas y a locas.
tope
great fool
Foolishly
al tope.
Junction
an
idiot.
madly.
union ; conjointly
con-
tiguously.
Hasta
De
el
Up
tope.
Toque
point to point
end.
d muerto.
El ultimo toque (de una campana)

El primer toque (de un tambor).
Toque de
Torno de
to the top or brim.
From
tope a tope.
The
The
The
from end
passing-bell.
last
first
peal of the bell.

beat of the drum.
luz.
Light in a picture.
hilar.
Spinning-wheel.
to
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Torno de
En
315
Windlass.
aspas.
Round
torno.
Tortas y pan pintado.
about.
These are
what is
come
who complain
Paso de tortuga.
A
A
tragos.
By degrees
un
traidor dos alevosos.
snail's
in
trifles
to
comparison to
to those
(said
of small things)
pace.
slowly
gently.
does not deserve honest
traitor
treatment.
Deceitful
adelante.
Trampa
procrastination
borrow-
ing with one hand to pay with the

other.
;
by no means.
Imminent danger.
todo trance.
Resolutely
Trance apretado.
En
dos trancos.
Briefly
Un
transporte de c61era.
todo trapo.
Con un
Tras
trapo atras, y otro adelante.
tras.
Trastras.
trasmano.
For
el
In haste
trancos.
trapaso.
trasquilones.
swiftly.
;
To
be in extreme poverty.
Repeated strokes or noises.
The last but one (in boy's play)
Out of the usual way.
For the good will.
Irregularly
head or
Trastos de cocina de
fierro.
Trastos excusados.
rudely.
;
without
tail.
Hollow kitchen
utensils.
Useless lumber.
Useful arms.
Trastos.
For
el travel
de
For
el travel
de Margate.
De
Without order or method
Sin trastes.
Viento por
in a trice.
of anger.
With all one's might.
fit
el
las barbas.
travs.
traves al travel.
Por
el travel.
Por
la
proa del travel.
Por
la
popa
del traves.
Athwart the hawse (nau.).

Abreast of Margate (nau.).
Wind on
the
beam
(nau.).
beam
beam (nau.).
Before the beam (nau.).
Abaft the beam (nau.).
Across, athwart, the
On
(nau.).
the
Bien 6 mal trazado.
Close hauled (nau.).

Gammoning of the bowsprit (nau.).
In the contrary sense ; in exchange.
person of good or bad disposition

or figure.
la trinca.
Trincas de baupres.
A la trocada ; 6 d la trocadilla.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
316
A
A
i
Helter-skelter.
trompa y talega.
trompa tanida.
Pobre trompeta
At the sound of a trumpet.

Poor
Poor, miserable fellow
!
Tropa de marina.
Marines.
En
De
tropa.
In crowds
tropel.
Tumultuously
without order.
in a throng.
With a variety of obstructions.

Proceed with the disorder (ironical).
A log of wood.
A division of the crew appointed to
tropezones.
Arde Troya
Trozo de madera.
Trozo de abordaje.
devil
board an enemy's ship while
in
action.
A
A
A
tuertos, 6 tuertas.
A
A
tuerto 6 a derecho nuestra casa
trueco
tii
por
6 a trueque de
So that
provided that
Familiar, disrespectful treatment.

On the contrary ; on the wrong side.
tii.
tuertas, 6 a derechas.
Right or wrong.
Ambitious persons are unscrupulous.
hasta el techo.
Al tuerto tuerto,
Hasta
la
cabra y
el
los tuetanos.
huerto.
In bad years combine the work of
gardener and goatherd.

With vigor and activity;
to
the
quick.
Tumbo
Tumbo
Tumbo
de
olla.
What remains
in the
de dado.
meat is taken
Imminent peril.
de mar.
The breaking of
pot when the
out.
the waves on the
shore.
De
turbio en turbio.
(on account of a wakeful
Sleepy
night).
Tumo.
By
Por su turno.
In one's turn.
Tutela dativa.
Guardianship ordered by a court.

Friends or relatives of the person
Tuyos.
turns.
addressed.
Por ultimo.
ultimos del
mes 6 semana.
Lastly ; finally.
At the latter part of the
month
week.
Una
Uno
Uno
Uno
y no mas.
Never
dijo.
It
a otro.
a uno
uno por uno.
was
no more.
said.
One another;
One by one.
reciprocally.
or
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Uno que
Uno tras
otro.
317
few.
In succession.
uno.
With
una.
one
accord
in
sympathy
jointly.
Una por una.

Ya uno ya otro.
At
Largo de unas.
Unas de
De
la
gran
unas a unas.
Unas
del ancla.
Ropa
usada.
all
By
events
at
any
From head to foot.

The flukes of an anchor.
of exchange.
According to custom.
certainly.
thief.
Cast-off clothing.
The date fixed for
Elk's hoofs.
bestia.
Al usado.
uso
rate
turns.
al USD.
payment of
bills
Vaca de San Anton.

Vaca de la boda.
Lady-bird.
Vaca y
In old times, a house where beef
One to whom everybody

when in distress.
carnero, olla de caballero.
and mutton were

sure
to
applies
supplied was
be a wealthy
establish-
ment.
De
Ni
En
vacio
al
en vacio.
Empty unemployed void.

The business is paralyzed.
;
vado, ni a la puente.
Unsteadily; unsettled.
vago.
Voz
vague report.
Scabbard covering only one- third of
the sword, that it might be easily
vaga.
Vaina
abierta.
drawn.
De
vaina abierta.
Hastily; boldly.
So vaina de oro, cuchillo de plomo.

6 vales reales.
;
Vale real
Hambre y
valentia.
Never trust to appearances.

Government bonds.
Misery and ostentation ; pride and
poverty.
Mnos
A las
Loss of the privileges of nobility or

other rights.
valer.
At the very highest
valias.
Valido de favor.
Landmark.
Valiza terrestre.
Hasta
el valle
de
Valor recibido
Valor contante.
price.
Confident of favor.
Josafat.
.
Day of Judgment.
For value received.
Until the
Cash
value.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
318
Una vana y dos

Con vara alta.
Varas de
To
vacias.
speak much to
little
purpose.
With a high hand.

Meteors.
luz.
1
Varas de San Jose .

Las varas.
Tuberoses.
The
Santo var6n.
Var6n de Dios.
Buen varon.
Var6n del tim6n.
A
A
las
Rudder pendent
At times
vegadas.
las veinte.
En
(nau.).
turns.
by
Unseasonably.
Vigilantly; without sleep.
vela.
la vela.
Juego de
shafts of a carriage.
A little man with a long sword.

A good, but not a clever, man.
A holy, virtuous man.
A wise and learned man.
Gorri6n con vareta.
Prepared
velas.
Aferramiento de
The
las velas.
ready.
of sails (nau.).
furling of the sails (nau.)
;
full suit
Vencimiento de plazo.
Al vencimiento del plazo.
Maturity of a bill of exchange.

At the time when the bill falls due.
Despues de vendimiar, cuevanos.

Venta confidencial.
La ventura de
Misfortune (ironical).
Con muchas
garcia.
veras.
The day
Very
Oaths
Verdad de perogrullo.
Verdad desnuda.
A mala verdad.
En
late.
angry expressions.
tnith.
Deceitfully ; fraudulently.
Strange or absurd ideas.
Without
;
too
self-evident truth.
The naked
Vericuetos.
credit.
earnestly.
Verbos.
Vestido y calzado.
la vez ; 6 por vez
after the fair
on
sale
6 a veces.
vez.
labor.
Successively
Instead of
.
by
;
.
turns.
in place of ...
Tal cual vez.
Perhaps ; seldom ; once in a way.

On an unusual occasion seldom.
Una que
Sometimes
Tal vez.
otra vez.
mala vez.
De vez en cuando.
De una ria dos mandados
every
now and
then.
Hardly ; with difficulty.

From time to time.
;
6 de un
To
kill
two birds with one stone.
campo dos mandados.

i
la via el
tim6n
Word
ship
Viaje redondo.
Vicario de coro.
of
!
command, Helm a mid(nau.).
'Voyage out, and home again.

Superintendent of the choir.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
319
One who
Vicario pedaneo.
has authority over a dis-
trict only.
De vicio.
De mala vid, mal
By
habit, or custom.
Evil
sarmiento.
cannot
things
produce good
results.
i
Vida mia
6 mi vida
My love my darling
A life surrounded by comforts.
A person's deeds (generally
!
Vida canonical.
Vida y milagros de una persona.
in
bad sense).
Gran
vida.
De
por vida, 6 vitalicio.

Vidrio cascade.
comfortable
For
one's
all
life.
life.
Viejo verde.
A
A
Cosas de vientos.
Useless, vain things.
Contra viento y mare'a.
Against
singer
who has
common
wind and
Al villano con
la
vara del avellano.
lost his voice.
strong, healthy old
An
man.
sense
(against
tide).
ill-disposed person
must be co-
erced, not only by words, but by

force.
Villano harto de ajos.
An
En
In the
vilo.
Vino de dos,
tres,
6 mas hojas.
ill-bred,
air
Wine of
clownish person.
insecurely.
two, three, or
more
years
old.
Wine of a sharp
The church.
Vino de agujas.
La
vina del Senor.
Como
por vina vendimiada.
Traga
virotes.
acid taste.
Easily; freely.
Varita de virtudes.
A starched coxcomb.
A juggler's wand.
Visi6n beatifica.
Celestial bliss.
Visitador de registro.
Searcher of goods on board ship
tide waiter (nau.).
Viso de
Small embroidered cloth placed be-
altar.
fore the Eucharist.
dos
En
With a double design.
visos.
visperas de
On
the eve of ...

(a threat of general
Visperas Sicilianas.
Sicilian vespers
punishment).
In the presence of ...
vista
de
Vista de un pleito
6 dia de
la vista
de un proceso, 6 una causa.

Cosa no vista ; 6 nunca vista.
The day appointed
for a lawsuit.
Something wonderful and strange.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
320
En
de
vista
In consequence of
eration of ...
escala vista.
Las
Openly
Bridal
vistas.
The
Al vivo.
To
Copia
Viva voz.
in consid-
without defence.
brilliancy or fire of the eyes.
the
life
very like the original.
By word of mouth.
Cal viva.
Quicklime.
Ni muerto
Something cannot be found.
ni vivo.
By force
viva fuerza.
En
Facsimile.
al vivo.
gifts.
Considering that
Visto que . .
La viveza de los ojos.
without sparing any
an
effort.
In a twinkling
Papeles volantes.
Short,
disseminated writings
Sello volante.
(generally satire or libel)

Unsealed letter, to be read by those
to whose care it is addressed.
andas y volandas.
easily
in
instant.
De un volo
De voluntad
6 del primer voteo.

6 de buena voluntad.
Quickly
at
Willingly
one
stroke.
with
pleasure
grate-
fully.
Voto en Cortes.
Voto a Dios.
Voto d tal.
deputy
An
An
in the Cortes.
oath of menace.
oath indicating disgust and ven-
geance.
Good gracious
By summons from church
Voto a chdpiro
voz de apellido.
!
or assem-
bly.
En
voz.
Verbally.
voz en cuello
a voces
d voz en
In a loud voice
shouting.
grito.
A una voz.
By common consent ; unanimously.
In a low tone.
media voz.
Voz vaga.
Voz
Voz
A vague or unauthorized rumor.

A clear and sonorous voice.
argentada.
The
activa.
vuelo
al
vuelo
de vuelo
right to vote.
Flying expeditiously, quickly.
en un vuelo.
A
i
una vuelta de dado,
Otra vuelta
A vuelta
de cien pesos.
At the
cast of a die
at a great risk.
of
Again (expression
impatience at
to
do
a
having
thing again).
;
About a hundred
dollars.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
vuelta de Navidad, 6 de Enero.
321
About Christmas
time, or about Jan-
uary.
vuelta de cabeza, 6 de ojo.
On
la vuelta.
La
vuelta del
Muy
Directly ; in an instant.
severe beating, flogging.
Vuelta de podenco.
the next page.
Unwelcome
humo.
vuestro.
Entirely yours.
Vuestra Senoria.
Your
Ya que
Ya si
Since that
alado.
Yema de dedo.
En la yema del
while
if
Helmet with a
torneo.
in
Yelmo
lordship, or your ladyship.

.
.
;
seeing that
When
Yelmo de
return.
visor, formerly
used
tournaments.
plumed helmet.
Fleshy tip of the finger.

In the dead of winter.
invierno.
Yentes y vinientes.
Comings and
And more
otras yerbas.
goings.
yet (used after several
adjectives).
Padre del yerno.
Ancient hermit.
Engana-yernos.
Baubles
Ciega yernos.
A zaga ; 6 en zaga.
Barbas de zamaro.
Showy
Behind.
Zancas de arana.
Shifts
For zancas 6 por barrancas.
By
Zapata de un ancla.
Zapata de la quilla.
Zapateria de viejo.
The shoe
The false
Sedal de zapatero.
Zapatero, a tus zapatos
Como
tres
en un zapato.
trifles
gewgaws.
ragged beard.
;
evasions
subterfuges.
extraordinary means
or by crook.
A
A
trifles.
of an anchor (nau.).
keel (nau.).
cobbler's stall.
shoemaker's waxed-ends.
Shoemaker, stick to your

To be in great poverty.
Are zonza.
Careless, lazy simpleton.
Caldo de
zorra.
Mariana de zorras, mal dia de caza.
false appearance.
Let us be quick and
none may outdo us.
Cencerro de zumb6n.
Bell
cepas 6 parras.
zurdas.
Zutano y fulano.
last
active,
that
on the head of the leading horse
or mule.
Zumo de
by hook
Juice of the grape
The wrong
wine.
way.
Such and such an one.
INDEX TO IDIOMS CONTAINING VERBS.
324
SPANISH IDIOMS.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Gozar
325
SPANISH IDIOMS.
326
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SPANISH IDIOMS.
IDIOMS WITHOUT VERBS.

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SPANISH IDIOMS.
SPANISH IDIOMS.
Ley
329
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SPANISH IDIOMS

TEN THOUSAND PHRASES

SARAH GARY BECKER

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1886, by

SARAH GARY BECKER AND FEDERICO MORA,

the native tongue of one of the compilers of this collection

of idioms, Spanish that of the other, and each of them

value have been attained.

familiar with both

a phrase stamped by the usage of

a language with a signification other than

Only by such co-operation could results of any considerable

has been to bring together as

grammatical or logical one.

with in literary and conversational Spanish as possible, but not to include

are not always easy to draw.

often appear in very light literature, most of which

hand, seldom makes

into belles-lettres or into conversation,

though they appear

abstruse terminology of the law,

and downright vulgarisms

Nautical terms, for example,

slang, or homely phrase-

from sharp, and depends more

have no business there.

The method employed

Lopez, E. R. Bensley, y otros," were carefully read through from beginning

and the numerous idioms cited

of the use of words

material has also been obtained from grammars,

including those of Professors Alberto de Tornos,

Monsanto, and Louis A.

from Bohn's Spanish

Quixote, in several editions and translations (including the

translation with critical

of proverbs by John Ormsby, London,

1885), and Gil Bias have been carefully studied;

and notes of idioms

memoranda were kept

such as occurred in conversation during a period of two years.

believe that few

phrases have escaped

In rendering the idioms into

adopted only when

pithiness of the original

placed under that verb, while the verbs them-

selves are arranged alphabetically.

can be effected with material of so heterogeneous a character.

idiom containing a verb

United States Navy,

examining and improving the translations of the nautical phrases.

improve upon them, and

been found necessary to correct many downright errors of translation.

second, to give equivalent English idioms where such could be found

the idioms containing a par-

are mutually illustrative, or deal with similar ideas.

larger portion of the

Those which lack a verb are comprised in a second division,

taken as the basis of their alphabetical arrangement.

as a further aid in the search for a given phrase.

hope that this collection of

believe ourselves justified in the