tramar
be up to ; weave ; engineer ; plot ; scheme ; cook up ; concoct.
When I saw what he was up to, I drew back for a punch and hit him so hard on the nose that he fell on his back and lay there for some time, so that his wife stood over him and cried out 'Mercy! You've done my husband in!'.
You cannot get pleasure from a literary book until you have 'lived inside it' - have discovered the patterns of event, of character, of language, of meaning, being woven in it.
So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.
The Moral Majority, a coalition of religious groups, is a collective name for a group of Americans who regularly plot the defeat of incumbent politicians who do not support their views.
This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.
He believes that most political brouhahas are cooked up to divert the public's attention from the real terrorism.
Their unquenchable thirst for revenge enabled them to concoct a diabolical scheme.
andar tramando algo malo
be up to no good
get up to + no good
His mom could always tell when he was up to no good - it must have been that sixth sense mothers have.
It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.
estar tramando algo malo
be up to no good
get up to + no good
His mom could always tell when he was up to no good - it must have been that sixth sense mothers have.
It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.
estar tramando alguna barrabasada
be up to no good
get up to + no good
His mom could always tell when he was up to no good - it must have been that sixth sense mothers have.
It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.
tramar algo
be up to something
She's up to something, and he's clueless.
tramarse
go down
If anything is going down here it's woman-hatred, not man-hatred, a veritable war against women.
tramar una conspiración
hatch + a plot
spin + a conspiracy
A number of Antiquaries feared that it was all a plot hatched by 'a few designing members' to line their own pockets.
He coveted his brother's power and so started to spin a conspiracy in order to assassinate him and take his place both on the throne and on the wedding thalamus.
tramar un complot
hatch + a plot
A number of Antiquaries feared that it was all a plot hatched by 'a few designing members' to line their own pockets.
tramar un plan
hatch + a plan
devise + a plan
craft + a plan
It is the story of two henpecked husbands who hatch a plan to kill each other's wives.
As soon as the giant moved out of earshot, they gathered desperately to devise a plan.
But now, it seems the 15 months spent crafting a plan to lessen pilots' flying hours, thus reducing the dangers of pilot fatigue, are about to become a reality.
