gracia
amnesty ; grace ; wit.
Security at the library has been improved and recommendations for the future include: amnesty weeks for the return of books and severe penalties for offenders, e.g. expulsion for a student, dismissal for a member of staff.
God offers penitents redemption but also bestows His 'common grace' on all.
The tone of voice should suggest that the inquirer's interest demonstrates something positive about the person - if not charm, wit, or intelligence, then perhaps earnestness.
asestar el golpe de gracia
administer + the coup de grace
deliver + the coup de grace
He was also the only of the partners in crime who administered the coup de grace to each of the murdered women.
By then the church was in ruins and Apaches delivered the coup de grâce by torching its remaining timbers and other wooden elements.
caer en gracia
take + a fancy to
take + a shine to
take + a liking to
cotton (on) to
He is a collector who wants to form a collection by making his own paintings of pictures he has taken a fancy to in other people's houses.
She took a shine to Sheldon, and before he knows what has happened, the misanthropic physicist finds himself with a girlfriend.
He quickly took a liking to American clothing stores and acquired a taste for fast-food restaurants.
He was a most affable bloke, and she cottoned on to him right away.
con gracia
wittily
funnily
prettily
This lovely book interestingly and wittily makes us aware of the ancient and colourful lineage of which we are a part.
You should be a comedian, you look funny, you sound funny, you act funny, and your body even functions funnily.
He didn't even have the good grace to blush, even slightly, when she fluttered her eyelashes prettily and thrust her breasts forward.
dar el golpe de gracia
administer + the coup de grace
deliver + the coup de grace
strike + a death blow
deal + a death blow
deal + a killer blow
deliver + a killer blow
deliver + a death blow
He was also the only of the partners in crime who administered the coup de grace to each of the murdered women.
By then the church was in ruins and Apaches delivered the coup de grâce by torching its remaining timbers and other wooden elements.
Moreover, military operations, whatever they may be, will not be able to strike a death blow to international terrorism, indicating that its high time that we probe the topic from a fresh standpoint.
It has been said that Cutter in developing his method of alphabetic subject indexing 'dealt the death blow' to ninenteenth-century title-term indexing.
Pakistan has vowed to target Taliban leaders and deal a killer blow to the Islamists.
Some of these remedies would undoubtedly have delivered a killer blow to the parasites in a horse's gut, but unfortunately harmed the horse in the process.
Lebanon is in such turmoil that war at the present time would deliver a death blow to the economy.
golpe de gracia
coup de grace
kiss of death
killer blow
death blow
The article 'Baker and Taylor's coup de grace' reports on how the book and video distributor Baker and Taylor has revamped its corporate outline and rethought its mission.
The article 'The kiss of death...or life' looks at how changes in Uruguyan copyright laws will affect US publishers.
Three times she tracked him down and fought him, only to be thwarted as he somehow evaded her killer blow and disappeared into the night.
Another employee said the plant's closure would be the death blow for the entire region.
gracia redentora
saving grace
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
hacer gracia
tickle + Posesivo + fancy
feel + amused
Come on in and browse around - hopefully you will find something that tickles your fancy.
We even react as though it were all happening to us by feeling sad or happy, frightened or angry, amused or scandalized, and so on.
lleno de gracia
graceful
The author who can vary his terminology to maintain the reader's interest is a handicap to the indexer, who is more concerned with the ideas conveyed than with the niceties of a graceful literary style.
morir en estado de gracia
die in + a state of grace
If the person died in a state of grace, Christ will reward the individual in proportion to his good works.
morir en gracia
die in + a state of grace
If the person died in a state of grace, Christ will reward the individual in proportion to his good works.
no hacer ninguna gracia
not take + kindly to
Although microcomputers are relatively robust, they do not take kindly to frequent moves from one location to another, particularly on wheeled trollies.
período de gracia
grace period
time of grace
For monographs, undergraduates have a one-day grace period.
This file has to checked every day, and after a time of grace of a week, a reminder is to be sent to the borrower.
sin gracia
dowdy [dowdier -comp., dowdiest -sup.]
This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
sin nada de gracia
unfunny
This ostensible comedy about two straight men on a gay cruise is acutely unfunny.
verle la gracia a Algo
see + the funny side
I would have thought with all the dope you guys smoke you would have been able to see the funny side of those comments.
