Roa in english

Roa

pronunciation: roʊə part of speech: noun
In gestures

roer = gnaw (at) ; eat into. 

Example: The rugby league is increasingly beset by a financial reward system that gnaws at its prime resource -- the players.Example: As termites begin to eat into wood structures, the weakened structure of the wood will cause floors to creak with more frequency.

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» hueso duro de roeruphill struggletough nut to crackhard nut to crack .

Example: While I have received rave reviews for these courses I teach, I have an uphill struggle to fill them.

Example: Sudan's oil sector proves a hard nut to crack.

Example: Realizing that the UK market was a very hard nut to crack he moved to Switzerland which was a safer bet but it also took him time.

» hueso duro (de roer)tough cookietough nut .

Example: Tough cookies usually get what they want because they refuse to compromise or give up.

Example: Getting a car loan has never been a tough nut for the residents of UK.

» roer poco a pocoeat away at .

Example: Rather than catalog departments going out of business, they could turn their attention once again to cataloging special local materials, eating away at store-rooms of uncataloged materials, and making their collections as a whole more responsive to their local constituency.

» ser un hueso duro de roerbe a tough cookie .

Example: Wendy is such a tough cookie -- even though she had cancer, it would not have been within her character to just let the disease take over.
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