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inglés Poesía y literatura Translation Glossary

inglés term		inglés translation
Gaily bedight		'bedight' is archaic for '(all) done up' or '(all) figged up' 'Gaily' is an adverb suggesting light & bright colours of clothing

gargling		gghhuuurrrrggghhh; gghhaaarrrglllle; gghhuurrhaaarrrrggle;gghhooorrraaauurrgglle

gay young blade		dashing young man

gaze to all directions		looked all around

general direction brews		brews = develops or is prepared

get all caught up in your knickers		stressed out, flustered, agitated

get thee hence before the hour be past		Leave within the hour	Lara Barnett
Entered by: Lara Barnett
ghetto-ass		A very exploitative absentee owner of rented housing in poor neighbourhoods

giant steps		mother may I?

Gilbert		G as in Great

give oneself a shake		shake body

go for it		die	Tony M
Entered by: Tony M
go out of my way		tried my hardest

godly brow		a godly mien or countenance: the act, or appearance, of behaving as God would wish

going the odd man		playing "Odd Man Out"	Sheila Wilson
Entered by: Sheila Wilson
gone electric		the music was electrifying

Got a bit heavy with her		got a little/somewhat/slightly aggressive with her

got everything knocked down to minor charges		had the charges reduced to only minor charges

got my britches tanned from here to Mexico		would have been spanked a lot

Got yourself a little bird feeder and everything		Life in suburbia!

gracious smile		1 kind _; 2 tactful _; 3 merciful, compassionate _; 4 condesencing _; 5 graceful _; 6 elegant -

gray-turning, gold-turning light		The light turned what it fell upon first to gray, then to gold

green monster		jealousy	Monika Rozwarzewska
Entered by: Monika Rozwarzewska
greeting line		line of well wishers

grown lawn boys		black gardeners, “boys”, who were actually grown men

gun it up Yale		drive hard and fast up Yale Boulevard	William [Bill] Gray
Entered by: William [Bill] Gray
Had a good rummage through my kit?		had a good look through my stuff?	NancyLynn
Entered by: NancyLynn
hammer the nerve		belabor the point

hard-grained		tough and experienced; dyed-in-the-wool

harried and overwhelmed		beset by problems and overpowered in thought or feeling

hated and handmade rogues		characters created as unlikeable, dishonest and unprincipled

hateful, literally hateful		hateful in the true/full sense of the word

have a way of cryting		*the unsurprising consequence (of father's action) is that the children go hungry and cry	Yvonne Gallagher
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher
have it aced		Have it mastered	Mwananchi
Entered by: Mwananchi
have more in common with each other than...		more in common with other gang members than to ordinary people

have people's lives woven into them		(Within/)In the patterns of this carpet are woven the tales of people's lives, one day at a time.

Have You Served Me		Are You Being Served?

having pitched on their pet points of snobbery		having promoted their favorite, snobbish ideas

He is into all thing English		He is particularly interested in English literature, customs, food, etc.--anything English./He is an anglophile.

he is not ill, but...		it (the Sun) is not unfavourable / does not exert a bad influence, but (on the contrary)...

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