Flea in spanish

Pulga

pronunciation: pulgɑ part of speech: noun
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flea = pulga. 

Example: The diseases and infestations caused by mites, lice, bed bugs, fleas, and ticks are discussed.

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» flea house = tugurio, antro, teatrucho, cine de mala muerte, lugar de mala muerte, sitio de mala muerte, sitio cutre, lugar cutre.

Example: We cannot live there, we have a small child and I'm not allowing her to sleep in a flea house!.

» flea market = mercadillo, rastro.

Example: Libraries should think carefully before rejecting 'the literature of the flea-market', for which there may be popular demand and without which serious study will be handicapped.

» fleapit = tugurio, antro, teatrucho, cine de mala muerte, sitio de mala muerte, lugar de mala muerte, sitio cutre, lugar cutre.

Example: Destitute, Vivaldi was forced to sell further scores for a pittance before dying in a fleapit, aged 63, at the end of July 1741.

» lie down with dogs and you get fleas = acuéstate con niños y amanecerás meado.

Example: I have always believed that, as the old sayings go, 'You are known by the company you keep', 'Birds of a feather flock together', 'Lie down with dogs and you get fleas', etc, etc.

» with a flea in + Posesivo + ear = con el rabo entre las piernas, con las orejas gachas.

Example: So the unhappy lame man got up with a flea in his ear and went to the second Prince, but here, too, he got the rough edge of his tongue = Así pues, el cojo desafortunado se levantó con las orejas gachas y fue a ver al segundo príncipe, pero de nuevo salió escaldado.
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