arreglar
remedy ; repair ; tidy up ; fix ; right ; fix up ; manicure ; groom ; clear up ; neaten (up) ; fettle.
After 1728, the initiative for investigating and remedying the state of the public records passed to the House of Commons.
In the more common perspective of linear causality, we seek to explain a negative consequence by searching for its root cause and repairing it.
Government agencies have taken the trouble to create a standard format for their publications and generally tidy up their presentation until in physical appearance their reports look like a collection of pamphlets or paperbound books.
There is always a need to fix manually the formatting of articles taken from an online service such as DIALOG.
The author questions whether this is a transitional phenomenon which will be righted later.
So ISI have the dosh to fix up ProCite.
Army officials would often manicure locations before journalists would enter and so it took far too long for anyone to start being critical of the war.
Never has there been a greater interest in grooming pubic hair than there is today.
What they will not do is clear up the foggy area in most cataloguers' minds, the area that leads to an inconsistent application of half-understood principles'.
Many people trim their cuticles to neaten the overall appearance of their fingers and hands.
Prepare your bike the night before so you don't need to fettle with your derailleur when you should be warming up.
al final, todo se arreglará
it will come out in the wash
Conspiracy theory maybe but I do feel there is more to this than meets the eye and as they say it will come out in the wash.
arreglar el cabello
do + Posesivo + hair
Cecily had a number of servants to do her hair and put on her shoes after she dressed.
arreglar el entuerto
sort out + the mess
The new governement has set itself the task of sorting out the mess that Labour have created.
arreglar el pelo
do + Posesivo + hair
Cecily had a number of servants to do her hair and put on her shoes after she dressed.
arreglar las cosas
put + things right
It is also pointed out thet the machine alone cannot put things right, the user will have to be re-trained as well.
arreglar + Posesivo + asuntos
put + Posesivo + (own) house in order
These denunciations make libraries look both sanctimonious and hypocritical for trying to save the world when they have failed to put ther own house in order.
arreglar + Posesivo + vida
put + Posesivo + (own) house in order
These denunciations make libraries look both sanctimonious and hypocritical for trying to save the world when they have failed to put ther own house in order.
arreglarse
get + ready
right + Reflexivo
For ages men have known that women take forever to get ready and now there is proof.
From potentate to prisoner: Laurent Gbagbo, the former president, is at last taken out of action but will his country right itself?.
arreglarse el aspecto
preen
Personally I think its time to revive the women's movement on a grander scale, as a lot of girls and young women are thinking they have to primp and preen to be worthy.
arreglarse el pelo
primp
primp + Posesivo + hair
adjust + Posesivo + hair
Personally I think its time to revive the women's movement on a grander scale, as a lot of girls and young women are thinking they have to primp and preen to be worthy.
The camera pans to each of the four actors, but when it gets to Tara, you see her flirtatiously looking at the camera and primping her hair.
Standing nervously before the full-length mirror, she adjusted her hair for the umpteenth time and smoothed the rumples out of her dress.
arreglarse la ropa
adjust + Posesivo + clothes
If she's constantly fiddling with her hair while she's talking to you, or even adjusting her clothes, she's trying to make sure she looks her best in front of you!.
arreglárselas
get by
make + do
make out
cope
scrape by
A small book fair lasting only a day, such as might be held in a kindergarten or small elementary school, can get by with a couple of members of staff and a parent as the organizing committee.
It is argued that years of 'making do' with inadequate resources has had a debilitating effect upon the ability of senior SLIS staff to formulate effective long term plans.
'Keep me posted on how she makes out,' he said resignedly.
The results suggest that neurotically hostile individuals view others as distrustful, the world as threatening, and themselves as unable to cope.
I am drowning in debt and barely scrape by every month.
arreglárselas a duras penas
muddle through
The average user is not only frustrated by a library, but is working under the false notion that most of what he needs can be found by muddling through the card catalog.
arreglárselas como pueda
losers weepers
Results suggest that people endorse a 'losers weepers' norm more often than they do a 'finders keepers' or 'share and share alike' norm, although all were endorsed.
arreglárselas lo mejor posible
make + the best of things
And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.
arreglarse las manos
manicure
This is a complete guide to manicure and pedicure.
arreglárselas para que
see to it that
This system was often abused for a grasping clicker would see to it that the fastest compositor got the easiest work.
arreglárselas sin
do without
live without
get along without
Serials management is one application that a majority of the public libraries have opted to do without.
The article is entitled 'I cannot live without books': Thomas Jefferson, bibliophile'.
It is thus that the library makes itself almost impossible to get along without.
arreglárselas sobre la marcha
wing it
'Winging it' becomes necessary when something unexpected comes up and the teacher has to improvise at the last minute.
arreglárselas solo
fend for + Reflexivo
losers weepers
manage on + Posesivo + own
get by on + Posesivo + own
We who run libraries are equally for this kind of emancipation, so that we feel that leaving readers to fend for themselves is to sterilise the idea of libraries.
Results suggest that people endorse a 'losers weepers' norm more often than they do a 'finders keepers' or 'share and share alike' norm, although all were endorsed.
Unfortunately, the arthritis was worsening to the point that she had trouble managing on her own at home.
Sickened by this parasitic femininity, she resolved to get by on her own and to see life for herself.
arreglarse las uñas
manicure
This is a complete guide to manicure and pedicure.
arreglarse lo mejor posible
look + Posesivo + best
Summer time clothes are much more revealing, and every gal could use a little help looking her best.
arreglarse los pies
pedicure
This is a complete guide to manicure and pedicure.
arreglar una abolladura a martillazos
bang out + a dent
Most dents that can be reached from both sides can be banged out completely.
arreglar un fallo
fix + fault
The library staff involved in the day to day running of the library may be called upon quite often to fix certain minor faults or clear up problems and misunderstandings on the part of the user.
arreglar un problema
fix + problem
The author discusses some of the simple things that can go wrong with microcomputers and the problems anyone can fix.
dejar a Alguien que se las arregle solo
leave + Pronombre + to + Posesivo + own devices
The profession is once again left to its own devices, subject to the tightening constraints of local government budgets.
dejar que Alguien se las arregle solo
leave (up) to + Posesivo + own resources
leave to + Posesivo + own devices
The new entrepreneur is largely left up to his own resources & connections & must possess the initiative to circumvent rules & take advantage of loopholes.
The profession is once again left to its own devices, subject to the tightening constraints of local government budgets.
que se puede arreglar
fixable
A broken computer, though annoying, is a fixable or preventable catastrophe.
si no está roto, no lo arregles
if it ain't broke, don't fix it
If it ain't broke don't fix it is anathema to people who believe in improvement.
tener que arreglárselas solo
leave (up) to + Posesivo + own resources
leave to + Posesivo + own devices
The new entrepreneur is largely left up to his own resources & connections & must possess the initiative to circumvent rules & take advantage of loopholes.
The profession is once again left to its own devices, subject to the tightening constraints of local government budgets.
