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Expressões, Ditados e Provérbios em Inglês-Português
Veja também: brainless e be dead from the neck up.
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1. HAVE NOTHING between the ears. In: Ear Idioms and Quizzes: Ear Idioms. [S. l.]: Idiom Connection, 1997-2023. Disponível em: http://bit.ly/3A5JWmp. Acesso em: 7 set. 2021.
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1. HAVE ON (something) or have (something) on. In: Clothes Idioms and Quizzes: Clothes Idioms. [S. l.]: Idiom Connection, 1997-2023. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/t9qrpk. Acesso em: 22 fev. 2022.
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1. HAVE ONE FOOT in the grave and the other on a banana peel. In: Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. Huntingdon Valley: Farlex, Inc., 2022. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/b1llp. Acesso em: 7 nov. 2024.
2. WHITMAN, Victor. Carlton Hotel has one foot in the grave. Times Herald-Record, 16 dez. 2010. Disponível em: http://bit.ly/3mh0fH3. Acesso em: 2 out. 2021.
1. estar prestes a morrer; estar com um pé na cova. ✰ After his health scare, it felt like Greg had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. (Depois do susto com sua saúde, parecia que o Greg estava com um pé na cova e outro no sabonete.)
2. estar numa situação problemática e incerta; estar em risco de mudanças súbitas e muitas vezes calamitosas; andar (ou estar) na corda bamba. ✰ With the company's finances in shambles and no backup plan, they had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. (Com as finanças da empresa em frangalhos e sem planos alternativos, eles estavam na corda bamba.)
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1. HAVE ONE FOOT in the grave and the other on a banana peel. In: Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. Huntingdon Valley: Farlex, Inc., 2022. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/b1llp. Acesso em: 7 nov. 2024.
Veja também: drink like a fish.
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1. HAVE ONE TOO MANY. In: Number Idioms and Quizzes: Number Idioms. [S. l.]: Idiom Connection, 1997-2023. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/dcrje. Acesso em: 15 fev. 2023.
2. MADURAI: Drunken man mows down hotel guard, held. Deccan Chronicle, 14 dez. 2018. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lIRI. Acesso em: 15 fev. 2023.
1. estar atento a algo ou alguém; de olho. ✰ After the teacher caught Billy cheating on the test, she told him, "I have my eye on you from now on". (Depois que a professora pegou o Billy colando na prova, ela disse a ele: "Estou de olho em você de agora em diante.")
2. querer algo ou alguém e esperar conquistá-lo; de olho. ✰ Veronica has had her eye on that job opening for a while now, and she's planning to apply as soon as it becomes available. (A Verônica está de olho nessa vaga há algum tempo e planeja se candidatar assim que for aberta.)
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1. HAVE AN EYE ON (someone or something). In: Eye Idioms and Quizzes: Eye Idioms. [S. l.]: Idiom Connection, 1997-2023. Disponível em: http://bit.ly/3tk5EAp. Acesso em: 9 set. 2021.
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1. HAVE ONE'S EYES GLUED to (something). In: Eye Idioms and Quizzes: Eye Idioms. [S. l.]: Idiom Connection, 1997-2023. Disponível em: http://bit.ly/3tk5EAp. Acesso em: 9 set. 2021.
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1. HAVE ONE'S FEET (planted firmly) on the ground. In: Foot Idioms and Quizzes: Foot Idioms. [S. l.]: Idiom Connection, 1997-2023. Disponível em: http://bit.ly/2WpVO3M. Acesso em: 2 out. 2021.
2. ROGERS, Charlotte. How I got here: Closet London’s Rachel Perrett on riding the waves of success. Drapers Online, 17 mar. 2016. Disponível em: http://bit.ly/3A508Dl. Acesso em: 2 out. 2021.
Veja também: eat one's fill e feed one's face.
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1. HAVE ONE'S FILL. In: Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. Huntingdon Valley: Farlex, Inc., 2022. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/019qt. Acesso em: 29 jul. 2023.
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