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heartbreak personified

Spanish translation: el desconsuelo personificado o

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English term or phrase:heartbreak personified
Spanish translation:el desconsuelo personificado o
Entered by: Cecilia Gowar

12:01 Nov 3, 2001
English to Spanish translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary
English term or phrase: heartbreak personified
Unshaven and wearing a seedy robe, he is heartbreak personified.
Solange Reydo
el desconsuelo personificado o "la imagen viva del desconsuelo"
Explanation:
Sin afeitar y envuelto en una bata andrajosa, es la imagen viva del desconsuelo...

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Cecilia Gowar
United Kingdom
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Summary of answers provided
5 +8el desconsuelo personificado o "la imagen viva del desconsuelo"
Cecilia Gowar
5 +7Es la viva estampa/personificación de la angustia/pena/congoja
olv10siq
5 +5es la congoja personificada
Gabriela Tenenbaum (X)
4 +5PLEASE DISMISS MY ANSWER!!
David Meléndez Tormen
4 +2es la desazón / pena / tristeza personificada
Leliadoura
5Otra sugerencia
olv10siq
4Sin afeitar y usando un traje desastrado...
David Meléndez Tormen
4personalización de una pena
AndrewBM
4vease arriba: personificación, no personalización - lo lamento
AndrewBM
4how about mal de amores for heartbreak?
maria_g


  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
es la congoja personificada


Explanation:
Hola Solange:

"sin afeitar y vestido con esa bata desaliñada, es la personificación de la congoja"

o "la congoja personificada"

También, en lugar de congoja podrías usar "ANGUSTIA"

Saludos! #:)

Gabriela Tenenbaum (X)
Uruguay
Local time: 16:05
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 373

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Leliadoura
5 mins
  -> Thanks DocSusi! #:*
agree  David Meléndez Tormen: Sí! No como la mía, opssss Todo nos caemos alguns veces :-))))
12 mins
  -> Thank you big guy! #:)))))
agree  Oso (X): Huy! Y yo que pensaba que nadie me estaba viendo!! ¶:^D! ¶:^***
1 hr
  -> Gracias Osito! ¶:^)# (Oso con barba de 2 días)
agree  Andrea Bullrich: : )
4 hrs
  -> Gracias Andrea! #:)
agree  Bertha S. Deffenbaugh: Muy bueno...:))
18 hrs
  -> Thanks Bita! #:)
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Sin afeitar y usando un traje desastrado...


Explanation:
Sin afeitar y usando un traje desastrado/desmañado, es la personificación de un rompecorazones


Suerte!

David Meléndez Tormen
Chile
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 2019
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
es la desazón / pena / tristeza personificada


Explanation:
O la personificación de la tristeza...
Sólo por dar otras posibilidades :-)

Leliadoura
Local time: 21:05
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 684

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lafuente: Voto por: "Es la tristeza personificada..."
1 hr
  -> Gracias Laf :-))
agree  Oso (X): cualquier parecido con la realidad es mera coincidencia... :^((
2 hrs
  -> hola Osito :-)) Sonríe plis :-))
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
personalización de una pena


Explanation:
break someone's heart


Con su cara sin afeitar y una bata que da asco, parecía personalización de una pena.

Cause severe emotional pain or grief. For example, If the verdict is guilty, it will break her mother's heart. This hyperbole has appeared in works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and George Bernard Shaw, among others. In noun form it appears as both a broken heart and heartbreak (Shaw wrote a play entitled Heartbreak House, 1913). Today it also is used ironically, as in You only scored an A-minus on the final? That breaks my heart! [Late 1300s]


The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer 1997



AndrewBM
Ireland
Local time: 20:05
PRO pts in pair: 26
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +7
Es la viva estampa/personificación de la angustia/pena/congoja


Explanation:
Sin afeitar y con un traje/batín(de estar en casa) andrajoso, es la viva estampa de la angustia/agonía/pena/congoja.
Esta sería mi opción.
Suerte

olv10siq
Local time: 12:05
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 1991

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Meléndez Tormen: sí! Me gusta lo de "viva estampa". Zarrapastroso es otra palabra para lo del traje :-)
9 mins
  -> Gracias David
agree  Leliadoura: a mí también :-)
1 hr
  -> Gracias Leliadoura
agree  MJ Barber: me encanta lo de 'viva estampa'
2 hrs
  -> Gracias Planxty
agree  Oso (X): Poética y extraordinaria respuesta!!! ¶:^)
2 hrs
  -> Gracias Oso. Un honor coming from you
agree  Andrea Bullrich: También compro "viva estampa"
4 hrs
  -> Gracias Aim
agree  Bertha S. Deffenbaugh: A patentar lo de "viva estampa" :)))
18 hrs
  -> Gracias Bertha.
agree  Juan Kriete
1 day 13 hrs
  -> Gracias Juan
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
PLEASE DISMISS MY ANSWER!!


Explanation:
Caí en un estúpido cognado... Qué verguenza!! :-( Lo lamento. La respuesta de Gaby está perfecta, además

David Meléndez Tormen
Chile
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 2019

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AndrewBM: ninguna vergogna - todos hacemos lo mismo
5 mins
  -> gracias! :-)
agree  olv10siq: Estás disculpado David, todos somos humanos.
8 mins
  -> Gracias, gracias, gracias. Sois todos muy "buena onda" :-)
agree  Leliadoura: :-)
3 hrs
  -> Gracias, leli. Prometo no hacerlo nunca más :-)
agree  Andrea Bullrich: Please lighten up, fenestra non erubescit :-)
4 hrs
  -> Lapsus alumni est, sed forsan miseros meliora sequentur ;-)
agree  Bertha S. Deffenbaugh: Pero, si vamos a sentir vergüenza cada vez que le erramos... naaaaaaaa........psssssssssss
18 hrs
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
vease arriba: personificación, no personalización - lo lamento


Explanation:
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AndrewBM
Ireland
Local time: 20:05
PRO pts in pair: 26
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
el desconsuelo personificado o "la imagen viva del desconsuelo"


Explanation:
Sin afeitar y envuelto en una bata andrajosa, es la imagen viva del desconsuelo...



Cecilia Gowar
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 1736
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AndrewBM
0 min
agree  Rick Henry: Me gusta esta respuesta... queda bien
6 mins
agree  Patricia Lutteral: Me gusta, esta opción "flows well" :-)
36 mins
agree  Leliadoura
1 hr
agree  Irene Cudich: suena lindo
2 hrs
agree  Oso (X): Excelente! ¶:^)
2 hrs
agree  Andrea Bullrich: Esta me encanta! Cada vez me da más pena el pobre tipo... :-)))
4 hrs
agree  Bertha S. Deffenbaugh: Esto está muuuuuy bueno!
18 hrs
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Otra sugerencia


Explanation:
Es la estampa del desamor,o el desamor personificado.

olv10siq
Local time: 12:05
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 1991
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
how about mal de amores for heartbreak?


Explanation:
sin afeitar y con un albornoz desaliñado es el mal de amores/desamor en persona.

maria_g
Local time: 12:05
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 29
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