deshacer
undo ; unpick ; unstitch.
The National Library of Estonia, established in 1918, is undergoing a revolutionary period of undoing the effects of the cultural policies of the communist regime.
If you are doing clothing alterations, then you will be unpicking seams all the time.
You really need to unstitch the lining and have a tailor look inside the coat before you know if your suit can suffer alterations.
deshacer el entuerto
sort out + the mess
clean up + the mess
The new governement has set itself the task of sorting out the mess that Labour have created.
He is just doing his best to clean up the mess left by his predecessor, Gordon Brown.
deshacer el pasado
undo + the past
And we cannot undo the past and she has paid her dues to society and it is wrong of us to keep her in prison any longer.
deshacer los errores cometidos
turn + the clock back
I will have to eat humble pie and face humiliation though but I was good at the job and wish I could turn the clock back.
deshacer lo tejido deshacerse
unweave
throw away
fall apart
come + undone
come apart at + the seams
fall apart at + the seams
The writer contends that Molly's soliloquy represents a textual performance of Penelope's backstage activity of weaving in order to unweave so as to outwit her suitors.
The person who never throws away a newspaper is regarded as an eccentric; the person who never throws away a book is more likely to be regarded as a bibliophile no matter what the resulting motley assortment of books may be.
Most of the packaging for cassettes provided by commercial vendors that are known nationwide is lousy, falls apart, looks bad, and so on.
Ultimately, thought, understood as part of high culture, has come undone.
The emergency services were frantically racing against the clock to try and hold together their city which was coming apart at the seams.
Society is falling apart at the seams, causing individuals who have not been able to cope with the changes to feel unprotected and hopeless.
deshacerse de [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio shed]
dispense with
dispose of
get + rid of
rid of
axe [ax, -USA]
shed
jettison
shake off
offload + Nombre + onto
break + loose from
chuck + Nombre + out
fob + Algo + off on + Alguien
land + Alguien + with + Nombre
fob + Alguien + off with + Algo
get + shot of
The past was not so easily dispensed with.
List and describe the steps involved in withdrawing and disposing of books which are no longer required.
The title of her paper is 'Let's get rid of it: a reference librarian's battle cry'.
Two recently elected school board members have announced their intention of 'ridding the high school of Mrs Panopoulos' - to which she replied, with a defiant shrug, 'Let them try'.
'He's been trying to cover up his tracks; those engineers who got axed were his scapegoats'.
Academic libraries need shed these lingering vestiges of eurocentricism and move forward towards meaningful cultural inclusivity.
The whole usually has more meaning than the sum of its parts, but care must be taken not to jettison some of the more subtle parts.
Only this way can the librarian shake off the aura of elitism pervading the profession and the library.
The booksellers, for their part must not attempt to offload useless stock onto the librarians for financial gain, but must supply the latest material.
It is a time, in other words, when professionals often long to break loose from the stress 'to do far more, in less time'.
Now to start chucking out stuff that I don't need; being a bit of a magpie, that might be difficult!.
Most marketing departments are currently handling those functions, but they would like to fob it off on IT.
Scotland's local government reorganisation landed her with a regional and district pattern different from the rest of the UK.
She complained numerous times, but he fobbed her off with promises that the pay rise/promotion would be given soon.
Many women would do pretty much anything to get shot of stretch marks.
deshacerse en elogios
wax + lyrical
wax + rapturous
sing + Posesivo + praises
go into + raptures
He helped to hose down graffiti from a vandalised wall while waxing lyrical about an era before antisocial behaviour.
But people do tend to wax rapturous - nearly orgasmic, even - over figs.
Frustrated devotees had been singing his praises for years, to no avail.
Most of my friends live in the city, yet they always go into raptures at the mere mention of the country.
deshacerse en pedazos
fall to + pieces
fall to + bits
One must accept that it is impossible to satisfy all people all the time; this author has seen several prison librarians fall to pieces, while the librarian was drowning in details.
If you leave it there for a few months, your bike will rust, perish and fall to bits.
deshacer un entuerto
right + a wrong
Southerners are more prone to violence in situations culturally defined as requiring a violent response, such as righting a wrong or defending one's honor.
deshacer un nudo
untie + knot
There was another knot in the contract language which needed untying.
persona que nunca se deshace de nada
hoarder
packrat
magpie
Hoarders may become anxious and angry at the mere suggestion of getting rid of items that they've held onto for years.
In broad terms, lack of weeding was associated with fear, inertia, and a 'packrat mentality,' causing one librarian to remark that it is 'time to weed librarians who don't want to weed'.
Now to start chucking out stuff that I don't need; being a bit of a magpie, that might be difficult!.
