escapar
escape ; bail out ; abscond ; lam (it).
Other words may be included in a stop-wordlist for some applications, but escape inclusion in other circumstances.
In the article 'Bailing out' 9 of the 10 librarians interviewed admitted that they were trying to get out of librarianship partly due to unrealistic expectations learned in library school.
Hundreds of prisoners, including murderers, rapists and robbers, have absconded from open prisons since 1999.
Though there were reports Bertollini was lamming it in Ireland, he told Michaud on Friday he never left the country.
dejar escapar a Alguien escapar (de)
let + Nombre + escape
get away (from)
There is nothing wrong with killing enemy soldiers that are attacking you and it would seem foolhardy just to let them escape.
Guards in the lead car of the convoy threw their doors open and ran for cover, screaming, 'Get away, get away'.
escapar de la justicia
escape + justice
More than 250000 fugitives have managed to escape justice in New York and are still on the lam.
escapar de la realidad
escape + reality
Adolescents should be allowed such pleasant means of escaping reality and there's no reason why libraries can't accommodate a little schlock.
escapar de noche
shoot + the moon
Realizing that the proprietor was angry enough to report them to the police, they decided to 'shoot the moon' leaving behind all their possessions.
salir ileso
come out + unscathed
escape + unscathed
escape without + a scratch
The owner of the tool shed was inside when the storm hit - he hid in his tractor cab and came out unscathed.
It seems a bit unfair, though, for Clausen to take all of the heat while her underlings escape unscathed.
Luckily, he escaped without a scratch and now has a great story to tell his buddies.
escapar impune
escape + scot-free
get away + scot-free
get off + scot-free
Needless to say that his plans go awry, as his first chosen victim dies of natural causes while his second escapes scot-free.
As a result, the perpetrators are getting away scot-free.
There was a chance we might get caught but we always got off scot-free.
escapar por los pelos
have + a close call
have + a narrow escape
have + a lucky escape
have + a close shave
have + a narrow shave
Most people have had a close call with another car, a person walking, or an object while driving.
I and all friends, thankfully, are safe - although one or two had narrow escapes.
A US woman had a lucky escape when a burglar's bullet bounced off the metal underwire in her bra.
A woman on board a roller-coaster ride had a close shave yesterday when the wooden train derailed as it reached the platform.
Vincent, another of the sailors, also had a narrow shave, he did not fall in but his bag did.
escapar saltando en paracaídas [Escrito bail out en inglés británico]
bale out
Robert baled out of his aircraft over enemy territory on 27th of April 1944.
escaparse [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio fled]
slip away
duck away
run away
fall through + the net
break out
slip out
make off (with)
do + a bunk
flee away
flee
weasel (on/out of)
duck out
give + Nombre + the slip
get off
fly + the coop
leak out
He gradually let his original aims slip away until he was attempting the impossible - a universal bibliography - albeit highly selectively.
The difficulty for teachers is that they cannot just duck away when children, individually or corporately, are set against what is being asked of them.
Street boys like Slake, a dodger used to running away, do not, even when they are myopic and dreamers, allow themselves to bump into lampposts.
For several years the library has had a successful arrangement with a local bookstore to supply it with unusual and important local material that would otherwise fall through the net of its collection development effort = Desde hace varios años, la biblioteca mantiene un acuerdo satisfactorio con una librería local para que le suministre fondo local importante y poco común que, de otro modo, se le escaparía en el desarrollo de la colección.
The article 'Breaking out with books' describes a pilot project involving the offering of library courses to inmate library assistants and prison librarians.
The two deflated employees exchanged looks and slipped quietly out of the room.
To pull off the heist, the thief stole a swipe card for the complex before using the wheelchair to make off.
As soon as the advance was paid however the manager did a bunk with the money, around £100000, and was never seen nor heard of again.
For this is the way with these common people; they will work up an enthusiasm one minute, and an hour later it will have fled away and left them cold and empty.
The Ndzevane Refugee Settlement in south eastern Swaziland provides a home to Swazis displaced from South Africa and those fleeing the RENAMO terrorists in Mozambique.
Christians have of course been weaseling on this issue since Jesus himself evasively weaseled on it.
Everyone and their mother (literally) will be ducking out from work early today to be with their nearest and dearest for the long weekend.
Thankfully her ploy worked and she was able to give them the slip - the problem was that she was in a foreign country she had never been to.
She managed to get off with just a year's probation but her hectic life will not be put on hold.
By January 2010 I had flown the coop and escaped the clutches of winter.
When the temperature is low the energy of the particles will be small and so it will not cause much of the dye to leak out.
escaparse a
run off to
This is the legislative equivalent of running off to Canada to avoid the draft and is considered dereliction of duty.
escaparse de
wriggle out
break out of
break + free of
talk + Reflexivo + out of
talk + Posesivo + way out of
She was determined that she would do her best to wriggle out from under the dunce cap he was trying to place on her.
Librarians must make an effort to break out of their insularity by imbibing foreign experience.
The institutional 'traditional student' discourse in the USA is one of fraternity parties and breaking free of parental control.
He's talked himself out of it by saying he had to work on Monday.
Ken talked his way out of it by revealing he was in fact also a double agent.
escaparse de/el fin de semana
get away for + the weekend
Getting away for the weekend can help you reconnect with yourself, loved ones, and nature.
escaparse de la cárcel
break out of + prison
Librarians must break out of the prison they have erected for themselves that dictates their solutions must be professionally perfect; 'good enough' is often the right solution.
escaparse de la prisión
break out of + prison
Librarians must break out of the prison they have erected for themselves that dictates their solutions must be professionally perfect; 'good enough' is often the right solution.
escaparse de la red
fall through + the net
For several years the library has had a successful arrangement with a local bookstore to supply it with unusual and important local material that would otherwise fall through the net of its collection development effort = Desde hace varios años, la biblioteca mantiene un acuerdo satisfactorio con una librería local para que le suministre fondo local importante y poco común que, de otro modo, se le escaparía en el desarrollo de la colección.
escaparse de las garras de
escape + the clutches of
By January 2010 I had flown the coop and escaped the clutches of winter.
escaparse de las manos
lose + Posesivo + grip on
She dismissed the acussation that he was out of form towards the end of the season, a period where he eventually lost the grip on the world championship.
escaparse de las manos de
slip beyond + the grasp of
A hundred years later, the ancillary skill of knowing where to find information had in its turn begun to slip beyond the grasp of those who needed it for their study and research.
escaparse de los beneficios de Internet [Expresión con la que se describe a aquellas personas que generalmente por su situación geográfica o económica no tienen acceso a Internet y que, por ello, pierden ciertos beneficios]
fall through + the net
In the US, in spite of efforts to extend Internet access to a broad population, some segments of the population are 'falling through the net,' to their economic peril = En los Estados Unidos, a pesar de los esfuerzos por extender el acceso a Internet a la población en general, algunos sectores "se escapan de los beneficios de Internet", con el riesgo económico que esto implica.
escaparse del yugo de
escape + the grip of
It is therefore often hard to escape the grip of the official phraseology for fear that, in doing so, the meaning of the material will be altered or lost.
escaparse de todo
get away from + everything
I go for a drive when I'm really pissed to get away from everything.
escaparse por los pelos
escape by + the skin of + Posesivo + teeth
Zelda has since had numerous adventures, escaping by the skin of her teeth at times.
escapar sin un arañazo
escape without + a scratch
Luckily, he escaped without a scratch and now has a great story to tell his buddies.
escapar sin un rasguño
escape without + a scratch
Luckily, he escaped without a scratch and now has a great story to tell his buddies.
evitar que + escapar
keep + Nombre + in
Many farmers and ranchers construct barbed-wire fences on their property to keep livestock in and unwelcome guests out.
ingeniárselas para escapar
contrive + an escape
As he recovers, he overhears a well-intentioned social worker murmuring soothingly about a juvenile facility, and contrives an escape.
que escapan a + Posesivo + control
beyond + Posesivo + control
The book trade can do nothing about this as the exchange rate is beyond their control.
