pelar
peel apart ; peel off ; peel ; shell ; shuck ; peeling ; husk ; pare ; skin.
The databases allows the user to peel apart a digital human body like the layers of an onion to reveal the organs within.
If you encounter an unlabeled document during charge-out, peel off one of the preprinted labels and put it in the document.
In seeking an answer the data were approached, after the manner of peeling an onion, from a number of perspectives: the sociological, the cultural, and the psychological.
At harvest, plants were separated into three sections and all pods were removed by hand from each of the three sections and then hand shelled.
All ears were harvested, shucked and dried on 24 October.
The installation of a peel remover for the peeling of tomatoes is described.
For this reason screening is necessary before husking the seed.
Cut the pineapple, after paring it, into small squares; make a syrup of the sugar, vinegar, and spices, and pour it over the pineaple while boiling hot.
After skinning a snake, the skin must be preserved in some way to keep it from rotting.
correr que se las pela
run for + Posesivo + life
run like + hell
run like + the devil
run + hell for leather
We stood in our driveway looking daggers at each other - the tension was like the air before lightning, even the cat ran for her life.
He set explosives around where he thought the entrance to the cave would be, lit the match, and then ran like hell!.
We took some photos (from a considerable distance) and then ran like the devil before the fire started to grow and block the road.
Rugby is not just a game of two teams running hell for leather into each other; the game we coach is more like a physical game of chess.
cuchillo de pelar
paring knife
This paring knife has a nice thin blade that is slightly flexible, excellent for garnishing.
duro de pelar
tough nut to crack
tough nut
hard nut to crack
tough cookie
Sudan's oil sector proves a hard nut to crack.
Getting a car loan has never been a tough nut for the residents of UK.
Realizing that the UK market was a very hard nut to crack he moved to Switzerland which was a safer bet but it also took him time.
Tough cookies usually get what they want because they refuse to compromise or give up.
estar que pela
be boiling hot
I felt the phone and it was boiling hot, way too hot to hold for a few seconds.
frío que pela
be bitterly cold
It is late winter and bitterly cold outside, so why have some of my hens have just now started molting?.
hacer un frío que pela
be brass monkey weather
be (so) cold (enough) to freeze the balls off/of a brass monkey
be freezing
It's brass monkey weather here at the moment, but at least the sun is shining on the snow and ice, and we have no overcast skies and rain.
Well right now I am on the horns of a dilemma as the weather outside is so cold it would freeze the balls off a brass monkey but I would be barking mad not to go home and get a good heavy coat for later this evening.
Last night was freezing and now the sea below us is churning and the wind is roaring.
pelar patatas
peel + potatoes
Who wants to live with someone who has never peeled a potato or put out the rubbish?.
pelarse
flake off
flake
Reader use, exhibitions and reproductions, age, pigment damages, and the dry air caused by the radiators, often cause the layer of pigment in the miniatures of old manuscripts to loosen or flake off.
Since the polychromy was flaking badly, a program of restoration was decided on in 1975 and completed in 1977.
posibilidad de pelarse
flakiness
Among the visual attributes found to be most useful were: absorption (soaks in, sits on top), luster (shiny, dull), flakiness (doesn't flake off, flakes off), and thickness (thin, thick).
que pela
piping hot
baking hot
The monks then add milk and salt to taste and piping hot Tibetan tea is ready to serve.
He slept on a camp bed in the baking hot room between 12-hour shifts and survived on leftovers brought to him by friendly chefs.
que se está pelando
flaking
Treatment undertaken included consolidation of the flaking gouache, surface cleaning, mould reduction, washing on the low pressure suction table, infilling and toning.
