Quintín in english

Quentin

pronunciation: kwentɪn part of speech: noun

In gestures

Quintín

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» armar la de San Quintín = kick up + a fuss ; kick up + a stink ; raise + a stink ; make + a stink (about) ; make + a racket ; make + a row ; make + a ruckus ; kick up + a row ; hit + the roof ; kick up + a storm ; go through + the roof ; go through + the ceiling ; raise + the roof ; make + a big deal about ; set + the cat among the pigeons ; put + the cat among the pigeons ; make + a to-do ; make + a hullabaloo ; raise + a hullabaloo ; raise + a ruckus ; raise + Cain ; raise + hell ; kick up + a shindy ; make + a din .

Example: If the cafe say it's butter and it's marge they could be in trouble if anyone cared to kick up a fuss.

Example: Encouraging an interest in maths among grown-ups is fine and dandy, but kicking up a stink about the lack of maths teachers is far more important.

Example: 'I'll call the young fellow and tell him there's been a mix-up -- I hope his parents don't raise a stink -- and I want you to know that it really sticks in my craw, it violates all my principles' = "Llamaré al joven y le diré que ha habido una confusión (espero que sus padres no me armen un escándalo) y quiero que sepas que es algo que me da patadas en el estómago, va en contra de todos mis principios".

Example: After all, making a stink is bad news for any public company, let alone a life-insurance company.

Example: In this illustrated book, children are encouraged to make a racket before slowly quietening down for a sound night's sleep.

Example: Some people have a neurotic, exaggerated sense of self-importance and will nitpick and make a row over just everything in every shop or restaurant.

Example: At most summer camps, children shriek, laugh and generally make a ruckus.

Example: The environmentalists have now kicked up a row over the cutting of trees along the Palace Road charging that the work was illegal.

Example: When she heard that, she hit the roof -- and she was still hitting the roof about it almost fifty years after it had happened.

Example: Grams is kicking up a storm at the care home she is currently residing in and is about to have her ass hauled onto the sidewalk if she doesn't quit at it any time soon.

Example: Harry was out of the country when the contract was signed, and he went through the roof when he found out about it.

Example: I finally told him the night before I left, and he went through the ceiling, just as I expected him to.

Example: I understand he raised the roof when he read the report.

Example: He's the type of person who gets frustrated and makes a big deal about taking the wrong exit on the freeway or has a short fuse when something doesn't get done exactly the way he wants it.

Example: There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Example: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Example: She must be mad to make a to-do about such trifling matters.

Example: These people are usually quiet and modest -- they don't make a hullabaloo or announce themselves to the world and demand trophies.

Example: He would steal from the hawkers just for the devil of it, raising a hullabaloo in the dense, crowded streets.

Example: Here's to a night of endless shenanigans, raising a ruckus, and any other tomfoolery we can get into.

Example: Her husband and his father and stepmother owe you an apology for raising Cain at your wedding.

Example: American progressives have in recent decades gotten too shy, or too afraid, to raise hell about injustice and unfairness.

Example: They kids were pushing chairs around, screaming ... and generally kicking up a shindy.

Example: By midnight they were making such a din that the farmer's baby woke up.

» armarse la de San Quintín = open (up) + a can of worms ; bedlam + break loose ; all hell + break loose ; all hell + let loose .

Example: It may seem as though we have opened a can of worms, but there is no need to despair.

Example: It is suggested that if bedlam should break loose the teacher should try to understand the cause or causes and use remedies.

Example: The newspaper that he was writing for at the time started to publish excerpts from Rushdie's book and as a result all hell broke loose.

Example: I was just quietly reading the papers at the weekend when all hell let loose and the sky was filled with angry jackdaws.

» se ha armado la de San Quintín = the cat is among the pigeons ; the cat is among the pixies .

Example: And then the cat is among the pigeons, and we need all Chase's creative talents to untangle this tangled web of confused relationships!.

Example: Well now the cat is among the pixies now and Harry is in deep.