remate-1
punchline [punch line].
Young kids like listening to these shaggy dog stories, but don't usually 'get it', while parents generally groan over the punch lines.
de remate
certified
blithering
She is a certified TV-addict - you simply cannot talk to her when she's glued to the box.
Never before have we seen such blithering incompetence.
estar loco de remate
be a real nutter
be off + Posesivo + head
He seems to be a real nutter rather than someone who becomes gradually ensnared by a cause that appears to have some appeal.
Clearly he is off his head and has no idea what he was talking about.
idiota de remate
blithering idiot
To be uncharacteristically succinct, he is a blithering idiot: I mean, really stupid.
loco de remate
barking mad
certified madman
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.
But it is a fact that since Marshall's time only a certified madman would resign the chief justiceship to become governor, let me say.
para remate
to cap it all (off)
to crown it all (off)
to top it all (off)
to top things off
To cap it all, when Crane became editor of the state library association magazine he appointed Hernandez production manager.
To crown it all, the text was printed in blue and light green, instead of plain black.
They never recieved the money order because the fucking mail lost it, and to top it all off my mom lost the tracking number so there was no way to find it.
To top things off, we had to put one of our dogs down on November 10th.
remate de muro
coping
According to their tradition, a crow on the coping of the house wall denotes that a relation is coming on a visit = De acuerdo con su tradición, un cuervo en el remate del muro de la casa indica que un familiar se presentará de visita.
remate de una letra [En tipografía, trazo decorativo de las astas de algunas letras]
serif
It was a hybrid letter, with the bracketed, inclined serifs of the old face combined with the vertical stress and sharp regularity of modern.
remate en plancha
diving header
Players famed for their diving headers are fearless when diving in amongst flying boots to poach a goal in the six-yard box.
remate final
the final/last nail in + Posesivo + coffin
clearance sale
The final nail in her coffin was when somehow during the interview she mentioned being a single mom.
Instead of keeping such items in our warehouse collecting dust, we are placing them here for a clearance sale at significantly marked-down prices.
remate modulado
sloped serif
The baroque designers retained the sloped and bracketed serifs that derived from obliquely-stressed pen forms.
remate uniforme
unbracketed serif
Didot's first neo-classic type did not show marked contrast, but later developments of the form, by Didot himself and by Bodoni in Italy, resulted by 1800 in faces of great contrast combined with vertical stress and unbracketed, hairline serifs.
tonto de remate
as daft as a brush
as thick as two (short) planks
prize idiot
knucklehead
His colleagues would say he's as daft as a brush, has bags of energy and enthusiasm but gets the job done.
Ashdown, for example, is an out'and'out Nazi, while Menzies'Campbell, who is supposed to be their expert on foreign affairs, is as thick as two planks.
Everyone has natural apprehension about doing something new since you' re never sure if you're going to end up looking a prize idiot.
It takes more courage to say no and stand up for what's right and is best for them, than it does to cave in to knuckleheads like you two.
volver loco de remate
make + Nopmbre + stir-crazy
After returning from Europe, Elizabeth worked an office job that made her stir-crazy.
