"Para sustos estuvo bueno"
English translation: That was quite a scare!
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| 21:00 Dec 24, 2005 |
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|  Selected response from: teju Local time: 11:14 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | See, please. |
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| 3 +1 | It was okay if you wanted to scare someone. |
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| 4 | That was quite a scare! |
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| 4 | it was scary enough |
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5 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1It was okay if you wanted to scare someone. Explanation: OR: It was good for a scare. It is the sort of thing one might say, it seems, of a horror film. Happy Holidays. |
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48 mins confidence:
That was quite a scare! Explanation: This is an idiomatic expression that's equivalent. |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1See, please. Explanation: Ya estuvo, ya estuvo bueno means: > OK, I've got it. > That's enough. > Stop it. So, something like: Don't need -or want- to be scared anymore... Luck. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs 56 mins (2005-12-24 23:56:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- También decimos: ya estuvo suave. |
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8 hrs confidence:
it was scary enough Explanation: another possibility |
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