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with the bromide...

Spanish translation: con la frase remanida...


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English term or phrase:with the bromide...
Spanish translation:con la frase remanida...
Entered by: Cecilia Della Croce
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21:32 Dec 30, 2004
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Education / Pedagogy / education
English term or phrase: with the bromide...
teachers automatically met parental anxiety with the bromide that the children were learning...

parte de un libro de la historia de las escuelas publicas de EEUU.
pastelito
frase remanida
Explanation:
Oxford Superlex:

bromide / "br@UmaId / n
1 [c u]
a (Chem) bromuro m; (before n) bromide paper papel m de
bromuro de plata
b (sedative) sedante m (de bromuro potásico)
2 [c] (platitude) lugar m común, frase f manida (con que se
intenta calmar o apaciguar a algn)
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Cecilia Della Croce
Argentina
Local time: 09:06
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1frase remanida
Cecilia Della Croce
5con el viejo cuento de.. // con el tópico de...
Ltemes
4trivialidades
Xenia Wong


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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
trivialidades


Explanation:
sug.

Xenia Wong
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
frase remanida


Explanation:
Oxford Superlex:

bromide / "br@UmaId / n
1 [c u]
a (Chem) bromuro m; (before n) bromide paper papel m de
bromuro de plata
b (sedative) sedante m (de bromuro potásico)
2 [c] (platitude) lugar m común, frase f manida (con que se
intenta calmar o apaciguar a algn)

Cecilia Della Croce
Argentina
Local time: 09:06
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 170
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Thanks

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agree  Egmont
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  -> thanks again y buen año
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
con el viejo cuento de.. // con el tópico de...


Explanation:
bromide, en este caso se refiere a:

***a commonplace or hackneyed statement or notion*** es decir, a un tópico o

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Note added at 7 mins (2004-12-30 21:40:13 GMT)
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Algo más coloquial:

***con la perogrullada de...***

Dicc. Real Academia: 1. f. coloq. Verdad o certeza que, por notoriamente sabida, es necedad o simpleza el decirla.

Ltemes
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  María Leonor Acevedo-Miranda: ya cuenta 15 hoy...
18 mins
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