tirón
pull ; jerk ; twitch ; tug.
A printer would use incompressible packing in the head mortises to intensify the effect of the pressman's pull by bringing it up with a jolt.
He then dropped the metal suddenly into the mouth of the mould, and at the same instant gave it a jerk or toss to force the metal into the recesses of the matrix (the precise form of the jerk varying with the different letters).
Drinking beverages with caffeine can also cause eyelid twitches.
Most fish give up after a few tugs, but carp fight you right to the end.
a tirones
jerky [jerkier -comp., jerkiest -sup.]
By whipping these tails back and forth the organism can swim about in a brisk, if rather jerky, fashion.
castigar con un simple tirón de orejas
let + Nombre + off with a slap on the wrist
get off with + a slap on the wrist
get away with + a slap on the wrist
I hope they throw the book at her instead of letting her off with a slap on the wrist.
The decision disgusted local police, who said Hooper could have been sent to jail for 18 months but got off with a slap on the wrist.
How can people be repeat offenders and get away with a slap on the wrist!.
dar un tirón
jerk
Visitors would laugh at the workman's jerking and whirling with the mould, but that was where the skill lay.
dar un tirón de orejas a Alguien
slap + Nombre + on the wrist
After he was allegedly caught using steroids and slapped on the wrist he stopped using them and his ranking plummeted.
dar un tirón muscular
pull + a muscle
Even if a runner does recover after pulling a muscle they will never be one hundred percent healed.
de una tirón
in one action
at a/one sitting
To remove the borrower from all routing lists in one action, enter the code for delete.
Louis was such a gourmand, that he would eat at a sitting four platefuls of different soups, a whole pheasant, a partridge, a plateful of salad.
de un tirón
with a jolt
at one pull
at one whack
in one shot
in one lump
in one go
in one fell swoop
at one fell swoop
at a clip
at a stroke
in one sitting
in one sitting
A printer would use incompressible packing in the head mortises to intensify the effect of the pressman's pull by bringing it up with a jolt.
In this way the whole forme was printed at one pull.
I am involved with systematic reviews which routinely result in 4,000+ citations at one whack.
Then in one second ten programs could work consecutively, and it will look like the computer is doing all ten in one shot.
LCSH revision is continuous, and may be quite large scale, though this is less obvious because it does not take place in one lump every few years.
He jumped in with both feet, opening five stores in one go and declaring his intention to open 30 more within five years.
He fired them all, in one fell swoop when he took office as do most all Presidents.
Life on board ship is not easy for anyone, least of all for a small child, who is deprived of nursery and toys at one fell swoop.
She could sit down and read for five or ten minutes at a clip.
This is a time of great tension because we know that at any moment, when we least expect it, our lives can be cut short at a stroke.
Whatever the reason, after getting herself together, Myrielle wrote this book almost in one sitting.
Whatever the reason, after getting herself together, Myrielle wrote this book almost in one sitting.
de (un) tirón
non-stop
without stopping
A British yachtswoman has become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop, both ways around the world.
Anyway, I want to try to run at least 3 miles without stopping and running out of breath.
recibir sólo un tirón de orejas robo del tirón robo por medio del tirón tener un tirón muscular tirón de orejas tirón en el cuello tirón muscular
get off with + a slap on the wrist
get away with + a slap on the wrist
snatch theft
purse snatching
pull + a muscle
slap on the wrist
crick in the neck
neck crick
crick
The decision disgusted local police, who said Hooper could have been sent to jail for 18 months but got off with a slap on the wrist.
How can people be repeat offenders and get away with a slap on the wrist!.
One way to avoid being a snatch theft victim is to suspect every oncoming motorcyclist to be a snatch thief.
After a string of failed robbery attempts including a purse snatching that goes terribly wrong, the two inept protagonists turn to gold digging.
Even if a runner does recover after pulling a muscle they will never be one hundred percent healed.
It is hard to believe that the public will see a reprimand in this case as anything more than a slap on the wrist.
Stress, if left unchecked, can cause such physical problems as muscle dysfunction, spasms, headaches and cricks in the neck.
Neck cricks are extremely common, affecting about 50% of adults per year, ranging in severity from trivial to crippling.
Usually a crick is found on one side of the neck at the juncture where it joins the thorax.
