Zarrapastroso in english
Zarrapastroso
pronunciation: none part of speech: none
pronunciation: none part of speech: none
In gestures
zarrapastroso = tattered ; shabby ; scruff ; in tatters ; in rags ; out-at-(the)-elbows ; shabby-looking.
Example: He inherited a deplorable 'library' with a randomly-chosen collection of tattered, torn, defaced books.Example: Behind the shabby desk was a rather shabby man, with a tired and indecisive face.Example: Part of the reason he is such a scruff is he took on sponsorship to raise money for charity by agreeing to not have his beard or hair cut for the better part of a year.Example: Saddam Hussein, the tyrant of Iraq, was pitiful when he was discovered in his hiding spot dirty, hungry and in tatters.Example: Children too exhausted even to wave the flies off their faces, and men and women in rags scrabbling in the dirt for grains of wheat.Example: His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out-at-the-elbows, the water passed through his shoes, -- and the stars through his soul.Example: A woman was walking down the street when she was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless woman who asked her for a couple of dollars for dinner.more:
» andar zarrapastroso = be down at (the) heel .
Example: He might be down at heel and frayed around the edges, but when it comes to having a nose for a mystery, he's the smartest solicitor in Liverpool.