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Expressões, Ditados e Provérbios em Inglês-Português
1. machucar ou prejudicar alguém de alguma forma; afetar. ✰ The car accident did a number on him, both physically and emotionally, and it took a long time for him to recover. (O acidente de carro afetou-o tanto física quanto emocionalmente, e demorou muito para ele se recuperar.)
2. lesar alguém através de fraude, roubo, engano etc.; passar para trás. (Dar balão). ✰ I'm very mistrustful of this company ever since they did a number on me. (Estou muito desconfiado desta empresa desde que eles me deram balão.)
3. derrotar algo ou alguém completamente; detonar. ✰ The opposing team did a number on us in the finals, leaving us with no chance to recover. (O time adversário nos detonou na final, não nos deixando nenhuma chance de recuperação.)
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1. DAR BALÃO. In: Dictionário inFormal. [S.l.]: Marcelo Muniz Informática Ltda. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/f0a18. Acesso em: 13 fev. 2023.
2. DO A NUMBER on someone. In: Collins Dictionary. 3. ed. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2012. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/rqyt45. Acesso em: 13 fev. 2023.
Veja também: cut off one's right arm for (someone).
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1. DO ALL ONE CAN. In: Google Translate. Mountain View, Califórnia: Google LLC, [s.d.]. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/c9637. Acesso em: 1 dez. 2023.
2. WHITLAM, John. Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide. 2. ed. Londres e Nova York: Routledge, 2017. 540 p. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/iqfac. Acesso em: 1 dez. 2023.
Veja também: do a flip-flop.
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1. DO AN ABOUT FACE. In: Dictionary.com. Oakland, Califórnia: Dictionary.com, LLC, 2023. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/61dsr8. Acesso em: 2 jan. 2023.
2. POLCARI, Kenny. Things you need to know:. SlateStone Weath, 5 mai. 2020. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lAQj. Acesso em: 2 jan. 2023.
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1. "'Do and undo something' refers to the contradictory action of creating or accomplishing something only to later reverse, undo, or destroy it..." In: ChatGPT. OpenAI. Disponível em: chat.openai.com/c. Acesso em: 30 nov. 2024.
2. JOHNSON, Claes. The Clock and the Arrow: A Brief Theory of Time. [S.l.]: Icarus eBooks, [2008?]. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lAQn. Acesso em: 2 jan. 2023.
Veja também: Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the church.
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1. "'Do as I say, not as I do' is a proverb that advises people to follow the speaker's instructions or advice rather than their actions." In: ChatGPT. OpenAI. Disponível em: chat.openai.com/c. Acesso em: 3 jan. 2025.
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1. DO AS ONE PLEASES. In: Merriam-Webster. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Inc., [s.d.]. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lAQA. Acesso em: 27 dez. 2022.
2. MS. SAR'S Read Aloud. Read Aloud "I'm in Charge!" [S.l.]: YouTube, 6 mai. 2021. 1 vídeo (3:50 min). Disponível em: https://youtu.be/spD1-D4sy-k?feature=shared. Acesso em: 30 nov. 2024.
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1. DO AS YOU WOULD be done by. In: Proverbs and Sayings: Proverbs and Sayings. [S. l.]: Idiom Connection, 1997-2023. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/yhg1d. Acesso em: 17 jan. 2023.
1. ✰ "I was advised by Dr. Peace not to do everything I feel like doing to give my lungs a chance to heal and restoration to take place." (Campbell apud Antibody, 2021). (Eu fui aconselhado pelo dr. Peace a não fazer tudo que sinto vontade fazer para dar aos meus pulmões uma chance de cura e restauração.)
2. ✰ "She longs for freedom, to do everything she feels like doing." (Oliveira, 2016). (Ela anseia por liberdade, para fazer tudo a que tem direito.)
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1. ANTIBODY infusion therapy helping to prevent COVID-19-related hospitalizations. UNC Health Southeastern, 8 jan. 2021. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lAQ2. Acesso em: 13 fev. 2022.
2. OLIVEIRA, Diana Alexandra Cardoso de. Vampire in Literature: Piety and Sacrilege. 2016. 44 p. Dissertação de Mestrado em Inglês – Faculdade de Humanidades e Ciências Sociais da Oxford Brookes University, [S.l.], 2016. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lAQZ. Acesso em: 13 fev. 2022.
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1. SCMP. Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels agree ceasefire after talks in Minsk. SCMP, [S.l.], 5 set. 2014. World. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/jknb4. Acesso em: 10 nov. 2023.
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1. "'Do not judge others by your own yardstick' is an idiom that advises against evaluating or measuring others' actions, beliefs..." In: ChatGPT. OpenAI. Disponível em: chat.openai.com/c. Acesso em: 3 jan. 2025.
2. LATIN proverbs. In: Wikiquote. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/mw87uc. Acesso em: 13 fev. 2022.
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