Dirt in spanish
pronunciation: suθiedɑd part of speech: noun
dirt = suciedad.
Example: Discomfort is caused if windows are opened, heat, cold, dirt and noise are offered 'open-access' to the interior.more:
» as common as dirt = de lo más común, de lo más ordinario, más basto que el papel de lija.
Example: Everyone I know has either already died or is going to die, including me -- death and dying are as common as dirt.» clod of dirt = terrón, terrón de tierra.
Example: Adult crickets spend their days in shallow burrows beneath a stone, clod of dirt or a tuft of plant.» dig up + dirt (on) = sacar los trapos sucios.
Example: She has hired a battalion of private investigators to dig up dirt on her many accusers.» dirtbag = canalla, granuja, sinvergüenza.
Example: He is such a dirtbag, but for some reason I love him.» dirt bike = motocicleta todo terreno, bicicleta de montaña.
Example: The brochure, titled 'Tread Lightly! on Public and Private Land,' provides guidelines for the use of dirt bikes, all terrain vehicles, horses and other means of traveling through back country.» dirt cheap = baratísimo, tirado, regalado.
Example: This way you can get all the information you'll ever need, dead easy, though probably not dirt cheap.» dirt clod = terrón de tierra.
Example: When you break up dirt clods in your garden, it improves the structure of the soil, allowing it to hold more water and support more vigorous plants.» dirt farmer = pequeño agricultor, pequeño granjero.
Example: My parents were raised by dirt farmers and they had a collective knowledge of native plants, which I absorbed by osmosis.» dirt field = campo de tierra.
Example: Matches between pugilists were settled in front of a roaring crowd in dirt fields and John L. Sullivan was often the one causing the roar.» dirt-floored = con el suelo de tierra.
Example: The writer portrays it as colorful town of peasants, mangoes, papayas, yams, donkeys, dirt-floored cottages, and the market place.» dirt football pitch = campo de fútbol de tierra.
Example: Dirt football pitches proliferate in lower-class areas.» dirt pitch = campo de tierra, campo de juego de tierra.
Example: In Africa one can see balls made out of condensed plastic bags tied together with string and a game played on a dirt pitch with goal posts made from sticks.» dirt road = camino de tierra.
Example: Her experiences in Namibia involved cycling along dirt roads through the bush to village schools in order to read stories and help children make their own books = Sus experiencias en Namibia supusieron ir en bicicleta por caminos de tierra por el campo a las escuelas de las aldeas para leer cuentos y ayudar a los niños a hacer sus propios libros.» dirt track = camino de tierra.
Example: The article is entitled 'Information highway or dirt track: challenges in delivery of electronic information products to isolated clients' = El artículo se titula "Autopista de la información o camino de tierra: retos en la distribución de productos de información electrónica a usuarios en zonas aisladas".» dirt trail = camino de tierra.
Example: The badly decomposed body of a 27-year- old women was discovered by a man driving an all-terrain on a dirt trail in the desert.» drag + Posesivo + (good) name through the dirt = manchar + Posesivo + (buen) nombre, ensuciar + Posesivo + (buen) nombre, arrastrar + Posesivo + (buen) nombre por el lodo.
Example: He will be seeking damages from those in the media who have dragged his good name through the dirt.» eat + dirt = tragarse lo que Uno ha dicho, retractarse de lo que Uno ha dicho, morder el polvo, disculparse, pedir disculpas, pedir perdón.
Example: He walloped Bud, tore his shirt, and made him eat dirt.» hit + pay dirt = hacerse rico, hacerse millonario, hacer fortuna, encontrar una mina de oro, descubrir una mina de oro, tener suerte, aparecérsele la virgen a Alguien.
Example: She was is having a rough day and felt she hit pay dirt when she found a phone in a trash bin after hers was stolen.» scrabble in + the dirt = rebuscar en la suciedad.
Example: Children too exhausted even to wave the flies off their faces, and men and women in rags scrabbling in the dirt for grains of wheat.» strike + pay dirt = hacerse rico, hacerse millonario, hacer fortuna, encontrar una mina de oro, descubrir una mina de oro, tener suerte, aparecérsele la virgen a Alguien.
Example: She thought she'd struck pay dirt when a wealthy couple hired her to find their missing daughter, who they suspected has started using heroin -- who better to find a junkie than an ex-junkie?.» treat + Nombre + like dirt = tratar a Alguien como (si fuese) basura, tratar a patadas, tratar a Alguien como (si fuese) un perro.
Example: The system had treated my grandfather like dirt and kept him tugging his forelock at those whose only virtue was to have been born to wealthier familes.