bote-1
bottle ; jar.
It is scarcely possible to imagine the answer to a question such as 'Why do they launch a ship by breaking a bottle of champagne over her bow?' being found without the consultation of a printed book somewhere along the line.
She wrote the following article 'Of books, manuscripts and jars of snakes: reference service in the museum, archives and records management section'.
bote de pegamento
glue pot
Among the items included are opera glasses, letter openers, clocks, buckles, stamp dispensers, and glue pots.
chupar del bote
line + Posesivo + (own) pocket(s)
feather + Posesivo/the + nest
A number of Antiquaries feared that it was all a plot hatched by 'a few designing members' to line their own pockets.
The article 'Feathering the nest' explains how much publishers need their bestsellers in recessionary times.
ser tonto del bote
the cheese slid off + Posesivo + cracker
It sounds like the cheese slid off his cracker a long time ago.
sopa de bote
canned soup
tinned soup
Canned soup is high in sodium and overpriced.
Consumers of both tinned and packet soup are increasingly eating fresh soup too.
tonto del bote [Nombre y adjetivo]
as thick as a brick
as thick as two (short) planks
as daft as a brush
bonehead
birdbrain
knucklehead
Her husband is still as thick as a brick and he still thinks he's been the model husband but Rome wasn't built in a day.
Ashdown, for example, is an out'and'out Nazi, while Menzies'Campbell, who is supposed to be their expert on foreign affairs, is as thick as two planks.
His colleagues would say he's as daft as a brush, has bags of energy and enthusiasm but gets the job done.
The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
It takes more courage to say no and stand up for what's right and is best for them, than it does to cave in to knuckleheads like you two.
