Cotarro in english
Cotarro
pronunciation: koʊtɑroʊ part of speech: none
pronunciation: koʊtɑroʊ part of speech: none
In gestures
cotarro
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» alborotar el cotarro = make + trouble .
Example: As President Bush's second term winds down, this is no time for him to be making trouble for his successor.» amo del cotarro, el = cock-of-the-walk .
Example: As far as he could see, he was cock of the walk: many of the men in Sunset suffered from diseases that Horace had so far escaped.» dirigir el cotarro = call + the shots ; be the boss ; call + the tune ; rule + the roost .
Example: The article is entitled 'Who's calling the shots in the semiconductor industry'. Example: One of the hardest things about being the boss is that no one tells you what you're doing wrong. Example: As long as we allow other people to pay the piper, they will continue calling the tune in Africa. Example: Just as the 19th century belonged to England and the 20th century to America, so the 21st century will be China's turn to set the agenda and rule the roost.» todo el cotarro = the whole works ; the whole shebang ; everything and the kitchen sink ; the whole enchilada ; the whole (kit and) caboodle ; the whole nine yards ; the whole shooting match ; the whole banana ; lock, stock and barrel ; the whole (kit and) shaboodle .
Example: The jet ultimately shot up fully vertically -- at which point the wings snapped off and the whole works careened down into the ocean. Example: Here the goal was to use classical and quantum physics along with particle physics to describe aspects of the astrophysical universe, i.e. the whole shebang. Example: You have to remember that everything and the kitchen sink has been thrown at stimulating this economy and the jobs picture still remains weak. Example: Many of the building blocks for this infrastructure are already in place, but the whole enchilada is far from finished. Example: To get the whole kit and caboodle working required degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. Example: They're going to have department stores, and restaurants, and movie theatres, and bowling alleys, the whole nine yards, and Heaven knows what else. Example: Which means I'd give the whole shooting match just to be back where I was before I quit sleeping under the stars and come into the hen-coops. Example: Finally, the big bang theory posits that our universe began from nothing, that the whole banana started from zero within what's called a true vacuum. Example: They then moved out of London to a council house in Basingstoke and they still live in it, but they own it now, lock, stock and barrel. Example: Everything went out of the window -- social life, the whole shaboodle -- for at least 18 months to two years, probably until our son Thomas came along.