TURN-UP

Traducere în limba română

turn-up substantiv

1. manşetă suflecată / sumeasă; mânecă suflecată / sumeasă; manşetă de pantalon sumeasă.

2. (la jocul de cărţi) carte întoarsă / dată pe faţă;

(fig., fam.) it's a mere turn-up e o chestie de şansă / de noroc.

3. (fam.) bătaie, încăierare, păruială.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The resources of this lodging were so limited, that we found the twins, now some eight or nine years old, reposing in a turn-up bedstead in the family sitting-room, where Mr. Micawber had prepared, in a wash-hand-stand jug, what he called a Brew of the agreeable beverage for which he was famous.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

More than once, when I went there early, I had audience of him in a turn-up bedstead, with a cut in his forehead or a black eye, bearing witness to his excesses over-night (I am afraid he was quarrelsome in his drink), and he, with a shaking hand, endeavouring to find the needful shillings in one or other of the pockets of his clothes, which lay upon the floor, while his wife, with a baby in her arms and her shoes down at heel, never left off rating him.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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