pack such a wallop

Portuguese translation: ser tão devastador

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English term or phrase:	pack such a wallop
Portuguese translation:	ser tão devastador
Entered by:	Cristina Spohr

23:16 Jan 31, 2009

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English term or phrase: pack such a wallop

Como se traduz "pack such a wallop", como no texto abaixo?

A soaked mattress and other furniture was out on the front and side lawns. Mendoza, 57, has lived his whole life in Galveston. He stayed because he was considered a critical worker: a heavy equipment operator for the city. His story was similar to others who stayed because they or their parents stayed during Carla, a Category 5 storm, or because they never believed that Ike, considered puny by comparison to Carla, would pack such a wallop. As recovery efforts got under way, thousands of people who stayed through the storm finally boarded the evacuation buses they missed the first time around. On Monday morning, a line of people waited for buses at Galveston's Ball High School, where state and federal emergency workers staged rescue and recovery efforts.

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ser tão devastador

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Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 00:48

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ser tão devastador

Marlene Curtis

dar um bofetão

Floriana Leary

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ser tão devastador

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 00:48
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 199

21 mins confidence:

dar um bofetão

Explanation:
... consegia dar um bofetão

Floriana Leary
United States
Local time: 00:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

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