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quando passar a anestesia
when the anesthetic wears off
Bougie
belonging to or typical of the middle class (= a social group between the very rich and the poor), especially in giving a lot of importance to money, education, and social class, or in liking and wanting expensive and unusual things:
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It’s one of those places where you pay a lot of money but don’t get much. Too bougie for me!
Burguesia
Scofflaw
Scofflaw é um substantivo cunhado durante a era da Lei Seca, que originalmente denotava uma pessoa que bebe ilegalmente ou ignorava as leis antibebidas
Candor
Honestidade, franqueza
“We really don’t know what to do about it,” she said with surprising candor.
Se sentir no direito
believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.
To feel entitled
Because men feel entitled to be sexist and they benefit from it.
Regras básicas (pra algo acontecer)
the principles on which future behaviour is based:
Ground rules
Estar numa situação dificil
To be …. spot
To be tight spot
Chupar uma mulher
To go down on a woman
Wrap my head around
To comprehend something that one considers challenging, confusing, or a foreign concept.
Kate is willing to pay full price for an expensive handbag, but I just can’t wrap my head around that.
Entender, se conformar
To be canned
Ser demitido
Treason
Traição
the crime of) showing no loyalty to your country, especially by helping its enemies or trying to defeat its government:
In 1606 Guy Fawkes was executed for treason.
To hit someone up
to ask someone for something:
She hit me up for $20.
To get the ball rolling
Dar o pontapé inicial
to set an activity in motion; make a start.
“to get the ball rolling, the government was asked to contribute a million dollars to the fund”
Someone’s two cents
someone’s opinion about something, esp. when it was not asked for or wanted:
If the changes are going to affect me, then I want to put my two cents in.
To be right up someone’s alley
to be what someone likes or is good at doing
That kind of music is right up our alley.
Naftalina
Moth ball
Trickling in
Começar a chegar
to arrive or move somewhere slowly and gradually, in small numbers:
Gradually people trickled back into the theatre for the second half.
The first wave of refugees is trickling in.
Wacko
mad; insane.
his willingness to pursue every wacko idea that enters his mind
a trailer park peopled by exotic wackos and misfits