DONKEY

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Traducere în limba română

donkey substantiv

1. măgar, asin; (sl.)

to talk the hind leg off a donkey a împuia capul cuiva, a vorbi până oboseşte celălalt, a fi limbut, a fi foarte guraliv;

(fam.) to have a donkey in one’s throat a avea flegmă în gât;

smth. that would make a donkey laugh ceva grozav de caraghios;

he has as much idea (of it) as a donkey has of Sunday habar n-are; se uită ca mâţa în calendar.

2. (fig.) prost, dobitoc.

3. Donkey (amer.) denumirea partidului democrat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

In whatever occupation she was engaged, however interesting to her the conversation in which she was taking part, a donkey turned the current of her ideas in a moment, and she was upon him straight.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The young man still replied: Come to the pollis! and was dragging me against the donkey in a violent manner, as if there were any affinity between that animal and a magistrate, when he changed his mind, jumped into the cart, sat upon my box, and, exclaiming that he would drive to the pollis straight, rattled away harder than ever.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The words were no sooner out of my mouth, than he rattled away as if he, my box, the cart, and the donkey, were all equally mad; and I was quite out of breath with running and calling after him, when I caught him at the place appointed.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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