Patas in english

pata = leg ; paw. 

Example: The vibration may cause the chips to work loose over a period of time, and if they have to be pushed back into their sockets, it is very easy to bend or break one of the 'legs'.Example: The chair's feet are sculpted in the likeness of a lion's paws.

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» a cuatro patas = on all fours ; on four legs .

Example: Scientists have controversially claimed the discovery of gene variants which directly influence whether we walk upright or on all fours.

Example: Of course, the horse can sleep lying down if it so chooses, but God has designed this magnificent animal to get forty winks on four legs.

» andar a cuatro patas = walk on + four legs ; walk on + all fours ; crawl .

Example: Before they had grain to eat, humans were weak and had to walk on four legs like animals.

Example: In human evolution, the transition from walking on all fours to walking upright didn't occur in a single step.

Example: Weeks of intensive feeding have transformed the baby into a chubby-cheeked boy who crawls.

» cagarse por la pata abajo = shit + bricks ; have + kittens .

Example: Such kids need to be locked in bathrooms with rabid dogs, those who don't bite but are loud enough to make them shit bricks.

Example: The person sitting next to me was obviously a nervous flier and she had kittens when the locker above her flew open mid-flight!.

» cernícalo de patas rojas = red-legged kestrel .

Example: The red-legged kestrel species appears to be rather rare in South Africa on the whole.

» con cuatro patas = four-legged .

Example: The first four-legged fossil snake ever found is forcing scientists to rethink how snakes evolved from lizards.

» con patas = legged .

Example: From a mechanical point of view, wheeled robots were the most common form of robot, but the exhibit also featured several legged robots and two humanoids.

» de cuatro patas = four-legged .

Example: The first four-legged fossil snake ever found is forcing scientists to rethink how snakes evolved from lizards.

» de dos patas = two-legged .

Example: When people mindlessly do something without knowing any reason for doing it, they become like two-legged cattle.

» de pata negra = top quality ; top-notch ; first class ; first-rate .

Example: The quality of a university's research library may not be sufficient to attract top quality students.

Example: I'd hate to see that happen because she's a top-notch worker.

Example: The preparation of a critical abstract requires first class abstracting skills.

Example: She has been a vital and energetic voice in the movement to increase the sensitivity and responsibility of libraries to social issues, as well as a first-rate cataloger.

» de patas rojas = red-legged ; red-footed .

Example: The hermit crabs I keep in my fish tank are all red-legged but for one that is scarlet.

Example: Among the most visually striking is the red-footed but otherwise bright green flying frog.

» dormir a pata suelta = sleep like + a log .

Example: Despite all the tea I drank yesterday, last night I slept like a log.

» estar patas arriba = be a (complete) shambles ; be (in) a (real) mess .

Example: While the economy is a 'shambles' and likely to stay that way for some time, he remains optimistic there will eventually be a recovery over a period of years.

Example: The economy is in a real mess now, and we need to create as many jobs as possible.

» estirar la pata = give up + the ghost ; kick + the bucket ; pop + Posesivo + clogs ; go for + a Burton ; leave + feet first ; cash in + Posesivo + chips ; conk out .

Example: This article examines one such example, Cherrie Moraga's 'Giving Up the Ghost' where, for the first time, the issue of Chicana lesbian sexuality is addressed on the stage.

Example: The author hypothesized that schizophrenia patients would show impaired idiom processing for literally plausible idioms (e.g., kick the bucket) but not for literally implausible idioms (e.g., be on cloud nine).

Example: A tenth of the population is planning on working until popping their clogs in an attempt to pay the bills.

Example: He lost several good mates, and explained that they would stoically simply remark 'he's gone for a Burton' when one was lost.

Example: We come into this world head first and leave feet first -- everything in between is a matter of balance.

Example: The day my mother won't eat a smoked salmon sandwich I'll know she's ready to cash in her chips.

Example: One can conk out at any time of life so I have arranged to leave what I own to the poor.

» halcón de patas rojas = red-legged falcon ; red-footed falcon .

Example: Wherever one turned, from every direction came the note of the golden oriole and the shrill cry of the hoopoe and the red-legged falcon.

Example: While odd red-footed falcons put in appearances locally every year, the birds nest regularly no nearer to Britain than Eastern Europe.

» ir a pata = foot it .

Example: So we footed it all the way back down the whole way that the ski-lift had taken us, and all the way back to the awaiting van.

» la mujer atada a la pata de la cama = a woman's place is in the home .

Example: Research shows that the majority of people believe that a woman's place is in the home.

» levantarse en dos patas = buck .

Example: While some prostate cancers may be as meek as a lamb, others can buck like a bull.

» metedura de pata = blunder ; boner ; goof ; blooper ; gaffe ; faux pas ; clanger ; slip-up ; cock-up ; muck-up ; goof-up ; flub ; fumble ; foul-up ; snafu ; fuck up .

Example: There is no better way for reference librarians to see how their efforts are perceived by library users than to see themselves in action -- blunders and all.

Example: Inferencing skills can be learned as students clarify contextual meanings of ambiguous statements, mispronunciations, and boners that may be found in newspaper headlines, texts, and conversations.

Example: The film's supple structure, surprisingly light touch, and bravura performances make it perhaps the most fully formed, half-hearted goof ever.

Example: Throughout the year we collect bloopers, funny things that happen while we are producing the program.

Example: If I had googled him when we were courting, I would not have made the embarrassing gaffe of bragging about my publications.

Example: The biggest faux pas according to snobs who take such things seriously is calling a sofa a couch or a setee.

Example: Whilst this might work in the short term, this strategy is to be avoided even if the clanger isn't entirely your fault.

Example: Minor slip-ups are things like - your fly is undone while giving a presentation, you accidentally let out an audible burp at a work luncheon, wardrobe malfunctions, you pass gas.

Example: The repatriation of the emigres was a tragic oversight rather than a war crime, a cock-up rather than a conspiracy.

Example: We realise it's nobody's fault, but it's such a muck-up.

Example: The best way to avoid such goof-ups in the kitchen is to read the recipe at least twice before you start.

Example: While the money invested might be recovered, it remains to be seen what such a flub will cost the university.

Example: But the other pleasures in this book are enough to make such fumbles dwindle in significance.

Example: The program delay was a result of a foul-up in the documentation that was supposed to detail exactly how the aircraft was made.

Example: The article is entitled 'Thirty years on -- an age of snafu problems of coordinating libraries'.

Example: I've come to realise that, how you react to a fuck up is often far worse and more detrimental than the fuck up itself.

» meter la pata = bark up + the wrong tree ; be caught out ; put + Posesivo + foot in it ; put + Posesivo + foot in + Posesivo + mouth ; shoot + Reflexivo + in the foot ; stick + Posesivo + foot in it ; screw up ; make + a bloomer ; slip up ; make + a blunder ; drop + a clanger ; drop + a bollock ; blunder ; muck up ; goof up ; fuck up ; eff up [Eufemismo de fuck up] ; flub ; blow it (all sky high) ; foul up ; muff ; cock up ; botch up ; mess up .

Example: The article 'Barking up the wrong tree' argues that the belief, by many book publishers, that they can use the Internet to bypass booksellers and sell their books direct to purchasers, is fallacious.

Example: All librarians can tell tales of being caught out in this way, to learn of their error only when the answer has been produced: information on dance-halls when dinosaurs was asked for, or on the grey starling when something on Grace Darling was what was wanted = Todos los bibliotecarios pueden contar historias de cuando han metido la pata de este modo para aprender del error sólo cuando se ha producido la respuesta: información sobre los salones de baile cuando se preguntaba por los dinosaurios, o sobre el estornino gris cuando se quería algo sobre Grace Darling.

Example: She somehow manages to put her foot in it and get laughed at every time, usually as a direct consequence of her unsureness of her own capabilities.

Example: She put her foot in her mouth when she asked a fat woman who was not pregnant when her baby was due.

Example: In other words, we have become our worst enemy, continually shooting ourselves in the foot.

Example: She's just always shooting her mouth off and sticking her foot in it.

Example: Although we're lucky to have them, eager beavers can screw up if you give them the opportunity.

Example: He is well-known for making bloomers in public engagements.

Example: He knew that if he slipped up again, he could be shipped to a higher-security prison and lose many of his privileges.

Example: Since its independence 61 years ago our nation has erred, but this time they have made a blunder.

Example: After dropping a clanger, you are left with a sense of shame and you just want to disappear and hide away.

Example: But we are all only human and I have recently 'dropped a bollock' as we English say.

Example: Michael Howard has blundered again, and again he has done so by trying to imitate Blair while lacking his finesse.

Example: Oh, well, at least try to keep it as simple as one can without mucking it up.

Example: The initial thing you need to do is acknowledge that you goofed up -- don't make excuses for it and don't try to obscure it up.

Example: They don't even have the balls to admit they fucked up big time!.

Example: What has Obama done to eff up my country today?.

Example: He's the son of a vice president perhaps best known for enduring ridicule after he flubbed the spelling of the word 'potato'.

Example: I thought that I had everybody on my side, but I went and blew it all sky high.

Example: So they aren't going to be able to teach it to them and those bastards will go on fouling up, making blunderers out of people who will then be turned loose to convince more generations of people that math is terrible stuff.

Example: I've had my chance and I've muffed it.

Example: They've got builders in rather than restorers and, as we say around here, they've cocked it up.

Example: To make matters worse, the owner tried to amputate his paws himself, botching it up in the process and leaving Brutus barely able to walk.

Example: I'm scared that somehow I will mess it up.

» pata coja = gammy leg .

Example: Steven Fletcher shows he can still enjoy a knees-up despite his gammy leg.

» pata delantera = foreleg  ; forelimb  ; front leg .

Example: The set of tracks found were made by a bipedal dinosaur which used its forelegs in climbing a steep slope.

Example: The rats were then administered tests of forelimb use, tongue use, hind-leg use, and in a spatial navigation task.

Example: Frogs' two front legs have four toes each, while the back legs have five toes each.

» pata de mesa = table leg .

Example: This article contains helpful hints for that common household annoyance: nicks in a wooden table leg.

» patas arriba = in shambles ; topsy-turvy ; upside down ; all over the place ; pell-mell ; cratering .

Example: He warns today in his annual letter to shareholders that the economy 'will be in shambles throughout 2009'.

Example: At a later stage he may make up topsy-turvy stories with reversals of the pattern; finally he will improvise and impose hiw own.

Example: Now, she just sat on the floor amidst the chaos feeling as if everything was upside down.

Example: Mr Hammond said the Liberal Democrats are 'all over the place' on the economy.

Example: After the torrential rains, streets had become canals, furniture was piled pell-mell outside homes, bridges were swept away, and highways were blocked by tree trunks and overturned trucks.

Example: Obama inherited a cratering economy while Trump an economy running on all cylinders.

» patas de gallo = crow's feet .

Example: The first signs of aging -- sun spots, crow's-feet -- show up earlier than we ever realized.

» patas palmeadas = webbed feet .

Example: All petrel species have dense plumage, webbed feet and deeply grooved and hooked bills.

» pata trasera = hind leg  ; rear leg ; back leg .

Example: The rats were then administered tests of forelimb use, tongue use, hind-leg use, and in a spatial navigation task.

Example: Due to the natural position of the rear legs, bandaging these bones in a straight alignment can be detrimental.

Example: Frogs' two front legs have four toes each, while the back legs have five toes each.

» poner Algo patas arriba = turn + Nombre + inside-out ; turn + Nombre + on its head .

Example: The article is entitled 'Umbrella in a hurricane: new winds of change may turn it inside-out'.

Example: This interpretation turns Dewey's social critique on its head by re-enforcing the political status-quo.

» poner el mundo patas arriba = set + the world on fire .

Example: Once upon a time, in a far-away galaxy known as Southern California a little blonde-haired girl thought one day, she would set the world on fire.

» poner la casa patas arriba = turn + the house upside down .

Example: Summer holiday means that your kids are at home from school and also that they are turning the house upside down.

» poner patas arriba = upend ; make + a (real) mess (of/out of) ; ransack ; make + a (real) muck of .

Example: Religious freedom is in danger of being upended.

Example: I made a mess out of my life because I cheated on my current ex boyfriend with my current boyfriend then I cheated on my boyfriend.

Example: The two polling stations of the town were ransacked by people who drove electoral officials and prevented the vote.

Example: I also have gone through enough in life to know that life is very short to waste or make a muck of.

» poner todo patas arriba = turn + everything upside down .

Example: The offenders broke into rooms and systematically turned everything upside-down, throwing papers out of drawers and off shelves.

» quedar patas arriba = flip-flop .

Example: The following transitory government floundered and flip-flopped embarrassingly in trying to respond to the Persian Gulf crisis.

» tocar con la pata = paw .

Example: Excessive crying, pawing, and other attention-seeking behaviors can be a sign of your cat's overdependence on you.