Cabra in english

caber 

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» caber en = fit in/into .

Example: Since the entire catalog cannot possibly fit into a single display screen, DOBIS/LIBIS must allow users to browse.

» caber en la cabeza = get + Posesivo + head around ; wrap + Posesivo + head around .

Example: You are not quite sure how one man could get his head around this at the time, but he managed, in a masterful way.

Example: Sleuthing is like second-nature to her, and she can't possibly wrap her head around the concept of renouncing it completely.

» como cabe esperar = unsurprisingly ; as one might expect ; as expected ; true to form ; true to pattern .

Example: In all these regards, the public library is distinctly unlike the school, academic, or research library and, unsurprisingly, its collection development reflects this, too.

Example: And, as one might expect, there are a variety of vendors offering e-book products, some of them clearly thinking about the library market as a potential source of revenue.

Example: As expected, newspapers provided an extensive coverage of the military build-up in the Gulf and the collapse of communism.

Example: She is well known for putting twists on classic designs and her new collection is true to form.

Example: True to pattern, however, the days after the typhoon were sunny and bright.

» como cabía esperar = as expected ; true to form ; true to pattern .

Example: As expected, newspapers provided an extensive coverage of the military build-up in the Gulf and the collapse of communism.

Example: She is well known for putting twists on classic designs and her new collection is true to form.

Example: True to pattern, however, the days after the typhoon were sunny and bright.

» como cabría esperar = as might be expected ; as one might expect .

Example: As might be expected, the terminology is noticeably British as opposed to the American terminology in the previous examples.

Example: And, as one might expect, there are a variety of vendors offering e-book products, some of them clearly thinking about the library market as a potential source of revenue.

» como cabría suponer = as might be expected .

Example: As might be expected, the terminology is noticeably British as opposed to the American terminology in the previous examples.

» dentro de lo que cabe = under the circumstances ; all in all .

Example: This is an acceptable decision, under the circumstances.

Example: All in all, then, the book has plenty to attend to, plenty to enjoy, plenty to share.

» donde cabe mucho también cabe poco = what holds a lot will hold a little .

Example: I was going to get the 25 egg carton but decided the 50 egg was not much dearer and what holds a lot will hold a little.

» no caber duda (de que) = there + be + no question (that) .

Example: As Musiker indicates there is no question that librarians must take full account of non-print media in their collection building and exploitation.

» no caber en la cabeza = be beyond + Posesivo + comprehension .

Example: Why this person decided to pick on me was beyond my comprehension.

» no caber en sí de alegría = thrill + Nombre + to bits ; be chuffed to bits ; be tickled pink ; fly + high (in the sky) .

Example: The critics are divided but Rolf Harris says he's thrilled to bits with the finished product.

Example: Obviously I'm chuffed to bits that I'm getting so many visitors and that the word's getting out.

Example: She will be tickled pink with these French ticklers.

Example: And while they are still hurting, we are still flying high after one of the most improbable title wins we've ever seen.

» no caber la menor posibilidad de = there + be + no way .

Example: There's no way I could attend the conference over the big pond from the UK.

» no caber ni un alfiler = no room to swing a cat .

Example: Another nautical phrase is 'no room to swing a cat' and refers to the fact that on the cannon decks of most naval ships there was no room to administer punishment by use of the cat o'nine tails.

» que no (te) quepa la menor duda = make no mistake (about it) .

Example: Make no mistake about it; pseudo-intellectualism is on the rise.

» según cabe presumir = presumably .

Example: Most of the additional documents retrieved will presumably deal with the subject in question at a more general level.

» según cabe suponer = presumably ; supposedly ; allegedly .

Example: Most of the additional documents retrieved will presumably deal with the subject in question at a more general level.

Example: 'This is an order then,' she said defiantly, 'even though I'm supposedly in charge of pages'.

Example: Similarly, a group of social workers set up an advice centre but it was closed after one year, allegedly on the grounds that it was too expensive.

» sin que quepa la menor duda = beyond any doubt .

Example: The published material confirms beyond any doubt that he was suffering from syphilis and its common manifestation, general paresis.

» sin que quepa ninguna duda = beyond any doubt .

Example: The published material confirms beyond any doubt that he was suffering from syphilis and its common manifestation, general paresis.

» tetas y sopas no caben en la boca = have + Posesivo + cake and eat it .

Example: The article is entitled 'Web lists or OPACs: can we have our cake and eat it, too?'.

cabra = goat. 

Example: If book donations to developing countries do not take into account existing needs and conditions, their only use may be to feed the goats.

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» cabra hembra = nanny-goat ; she-goat ; nanny .

Example: Results showed that the first colostrum of ewes milked one hour postpartum had significantly more protein than that of nanny-goats.

Example: Each group was divided into two subgroups consisting of 5 she-goats and their 5 kids, one group for behavioural observations while the other group for physiological and health studies.

Example: After their breeding season is over, males and females separate, the billies (males) break up into small groups of 2-3 but females (nannies) and kids form loose-knit groups of up to 50.

» cabra macho = billy-goat ; he-goat ; billy .

Example: A number of Assyrian seals with the images of a man wrestling with a billy-goat and a man wrestling with a mythological winged creature were found in Teishebani.

Example: He demonstrates that the prevailing consensus that the ram and the he-goat are symbols for Persia and Greece is justified.

Example: After their breeding season is over, males and females separate, the billies (males) break up into small groups of 2-3 but females (nannies) and kids form loose-knit groups of up to 50.

» cabra montés = mountain goat .

Example: The stories are accompanied by learning activities and discussion questions for students and are arranged under the headings of bear, mountain goat and deer, and seal and sea lion.

» como una cabra = stark raving mad ; raving mad ; crazy [crazier -comp., craziest -sup.]  ; daft [dafter -comp., daftest -sup.]  ; batty [battier -comp., battiest -sup.]  ; barking mad ; as mad as a hatter ; as mad as a March hare ; nutty [nuttier -comp., nuttiest -sup.]  ; loopy [loopier -comp., loopiest -sup.]  ; as nutty as a fruitcake ; nutsy [nutsier -comp., nutsiest -sup.] .

Example: Since he wasn't stark raving mad as a result, but simply very relaxed, I decided I would try it when the opportunity arose.

Example: It is said that if anybody remained there for a night, he would be found in the morning either dead, raving mad, or endowed with remarkable genius.

Example: Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.

Example: Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.

Example: My very intelligent, yet slightly batty girlfriend has an interesting theory.

Example: 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.

Example: She was not so little, about my height, but she was a bag of bones and she was as mad as a hatter.

Example: I turned and looked into her eyes and knew instantly what I should have known before, that she was as mad as a March hare.

Example: When squirrels are acting 'nutty,' it is often caused by a warble or botfly larva living beneath the animal's skin.

Example: A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours.

Example: We sure are as nutty as a fruitcake or we wouldn't be here.

Example: This little tidbit of her life didn't come to light until about a month ago, but its helped me understand why she's so nutsy.

» estar como una cabra = be a real nutter ; be off + Posesivo + head ; be nuts ; be crackers ; have + bats in the belfry .

Example: He seems to be a real nutter rather than someone who becomes gradually ensnared by a cause that appears to have some appeal.

Example: Clearly he is off his head and has no idea what he was talking about.

Example: Do you have to be nuts to be a genius?.

Example: They're crackers if they think they have a chance to win.

Example: Being creatively inclined goes hand-in-hand with a predisposition for behaving as though you have bats in the belfry.

» la cabra siempre tira al monte = You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy ; You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear ; a leopard cannot/never/doesn't/won't change(s) its spots .

Example: Or, as they say around here, 'You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy'.

Example: Everybody knows 'you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear,' suggesting that something without inherent value can't be transformed into something valuable.

Example: Anyone can turn their lives around -- I don't believe that whole thing that a leopard never changes its spots, because you're looking at someone who has.

» loco como una cabra = raving lunatic .

Example: Since January of 2006 we have had to deal with the raving lunatics and suicidal madmen of the ruling party of Hamas.

» más loco que una cabra = as mad as a March hare ; as mad as a hatter ; as nutty as a fruitcake .

Example: I turned and looked into her eyes and knew instantly what I should have known before, that she was as mad as a March hare.

Example: She was not so little, about my height, but she was a bag of bones and she was as mad as a hatter.

Example: We sure are as nutty as a fruitcake or we wouldn't be here.

» más perdido que una cabra en un garaje = as lost as Hogan's goat .

Example: When I drive somewhere I can usually find my way back but when I ride I'm usually as lost as Hogan's goat when I try to find my way back to the same place.

» piel de cabra = goat [Utilizada en la encuadernación en piel] ; goatskin ; morocco [En la encuadernación, nombre general dado a los distintos tipos de piel de cabra] .

Example: Various skins were used for leather bindings -- calf, goat, and sheep were the commonest -- and the surface was often decorated with heated brass tools, either using gold leaf (gilt) or plain (blind).

Example: Vellum remained popular on the continent, less so in England; while goatskin (morocco), although well established by this time for fine work, was seldom used in trade binding except for prayer books.

Example: Much the commonest grains were rib, the various moroccos, sand, and pebble; while plain (ungrained) cloth was never rare.

» queso de cabra = goat cheese .

Example: And artichoke hearts, goat cheese and walnuts are also staples at my house.

» tan loco como una cabra = as mad as a March hare ; as mad as a hatter ; as nutty as a fruitcake .

Example: I turned and looked into her eyes and knew instantly what I should have known before, that she was as mad as a March hare.

Example: She was not so little, about my height, but she was a bag of bones and she was as mad as a hatter.

Example: We sure are as nutty as a fruitcake or we wouldn't be here.