Sentence examples of "cortar en lonchas finas" in Spanish
Ese cuchillo no estaba afilado y no podía cortar la carne con él, así que recurrí a mi navaja.
That knife wasn't sharp and I couldn't cut the meat with it, so I resorted to using my pocket knife.
Esa fue una solución del tipo "cortar el nudo gordiano"
That was a 'cutting the Gordian knot' type of solution.
El cuchillo estaba tan mal afilado, que no pude cortar con él la carne y tuve que usar mi navaja.
The knife was so dull that I couldn't cut the meat with it and I had to use my pocketknife.
Los alemanes tienen una forma inhumana de cortar sus verbos. Un verbo ya lo pasa bastante mal cuando está entero. Es completamente inhumano partirlo. Pero eso es exactamente lo que hacen los alemanes. Cogen una parte del verbo y la ponen aquí, como una estaca, y cogen la otra parte y la ponen allá a lo lejos, como otra estaca, y simplemente cavan en alemán entre estos dos límites.
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
Tras cortar con ella, Simón se alejó sin mirar atrás.
After splitting up with her, Simon walked away without looking back.
Las tijeras son para cortar pero pueden usarse también para apuñalar.
Scissors are meant for cutting but can also be used to stab.
Mi esposa ha abandonado toda esperanza de convencerme a cortar el pasto hoy.
My wife has given up all hope of convincing me to mow the lawn today.
Él se fue a cortar el pelo, pero volverá pronto.
He had gone to get a haircut, but he'll be back soon.
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