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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

comerse un pavo

English translation:

made them blush / feel shame / turn red in the face

Added to glossary by Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
Nov 28, 2006 09:57
17 yrs ago
Spanish term

comerse un pavo

Spanish to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
en "Travesuras de la niña mala" p.12

Mario Vargas Llosa

Ed.: ALFAGUARA
Proposed translations (English)
3 made them blush / feel shame / turn red in the face
3 [jokes so blue that] all the local girls were mortified
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Proposed translations

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made them blush / feel shame / turn red in the face

Mi interpretación es que, en sentido figurado, se ponían coloradas, rojas de vergüenza...



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[jokes so blue that] all the local girls were mortified

a possibility (according to María Moliner, "comer pavo" means to be disappointed)
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