Cumplir la mayoría de edad.

To come of age.

"My parents came of age durng the 1960s."

Cambridge Dictionary Online.

To come of age: to reach adult status.

Oxford Dictionary Online.

In News:

"Joe Hart believes Manchester City have finally come of age in the Campions League with their stunning win in Rome."

Irish Mirror.

"Game changer: How the film industry came of age in Northern Ireland.".

BBC News

Persona que trabaja en un hospital o centro asistencial ayudando a enfermeras.

Orderly: a hospital worker who does jobs   for which no training is necessary, such as helping nurses  or  carryinhg heavy things.
Cambridge Dictionary Online.

Orderly: a person who works in a hospital and does various jobs (such as moving patients or cleaning).
Merriam Webster Dictionary.


In News:

"Now he's found a career he thinks will stick: hospital orderly. He's finished 545 hours of online courses on the Spanish medical system, learning ..."
Bloomberg

"Beth then coordinates with another nurse/orderly in the hospital. She bribes him with strawberries to make choking to distract the guards while ..."
Moviepilot.com

"He gives in and tells her, Beth bribes another hospital patient-turned-orderly to distract the guards on duty, and she grabs what she needs."
Zimbio

Hacer Bromas pesadas a Alguien.

 

To play a prank on somebody, to play practical jokes on someone.

"When I was at school  we were always playing  pranks on our teachers."
 Cambridge Dictionary Online.

"Practical Joke: A mischievous trick played on a person, especially one that causes the victim to experience embarrassment, indignity, or discomfort."
The Free Dictionary.


In News:

"But we got in big trouble when we played a practical joke on mom and dad - holding signs that read, these people are kidnapping us."
WFDD
 
"Now, a few days after someone actually did, there's nothing funny about it -- even if it started as a practical joke played on a 61-year-old father ..."
Cincinnati.com 


 

Hacer autostop, viajar en cola.

 

To hitchhike, to hitchhike from one place to another.

I hitchhiked form san José to Managua.

 "Women should never hitchhike on  their own."
Cambridge Dictionary Online

 In News:

"They may have hitchhiked from the collision on Highway 17 West near Arts Lane."
BayToday.com

"He hitchhiked to The Gunks, a popular climbing area outside New York City. Wearing tennis shoes and having no gloves or rope."
Chicago Daily Herald.

Foto de Frente.

 Headshot.

I need a current headshot for my résumé.







In Educational Materials:

Click on headshot to enlarge.

Wordlink 1. Second Edition by Susan Stempleski. James Morgan and Nancy Douglas. Heile CENGAGE Learning.

On Websites:

"Your headshot can help with this. But all headshots are not created equal. Make sure yours is on-brand and of high quality. Invest in a headshot taken by a professional. Don’t use a photo your mother took of you at last year’s family beach outing. Don’t use a selfie. And make sure you’re facing forward or to the left (looking into your content). "

Forbes.com

De día.

In/at daylight.

I will return at daylight.


In Dictionaries:

"Do the test in daylight for maximum accuracy of colour matching"
Oxford Dictionary Online.

"Police moved in at daylight to make arrests."

Oxford Dictionary Online.

In News: 

"POLICE investigating after two shots were fired at the door of a North-East house in broad daylight on Friday have this morning arrested two ..."

The Northern Echo.

En plein jour en anglais in English.

Vigente (documento legal).

Current (adj), still valid.

This authorization is still current. It has not expired yet.

In Modern Litarature:

“Of course, Avery, we’ll need authorization and powers of attorney for each of these
clients,” Osgood said.

“They’re on file,” Avery said as he unpacked his briefcase.

“Yes, but they’ve expired. We’ll need current ones. Every account.”

“Very well.” Avery slid a file across the table. “They’re in there. Everything’s current.”
He winked at Mitch
The Firm by John Grisham


On Websites

"Before you book your travel, please ensure that your passport and those of any children who may be travelling with you are still valid.·
Australian Passport Offce.

En inglés: Atender, trabajar a domicilio.

How to call an occasion when a doctor or other  worker comes to your home to do their work.

To make housecalls.
To make house calls.

To make house calls: to visit (as by a doctor or a repair person)  a home to provide a requested service 

On Youtube:




In Cartoons:

Shoe Comics

Cartoonist(s): J.C. Duffy.

Pub Date: 2009-12-14

In News: 

"Rural Montana car dealer makes house calls."
Tirebusinees.com

"City officials last year started assigning firefighters to make house calls to check on Bellin Hospital patients after they have been discharged. The hospital pays the city $50 per house call."
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/


In French       En francais       En francés

Faire des visites à domicile

Juego de palabras.

Play on words.

Play on words: an amusing use of a word or phrase that has more than one meaning. 
Cambridge Dictionary Online.

In Modern Literature:

"Again feeling repulsed by his captor's sadistic play on words."
Inferno by Dan Brown.

In News:

"A Play on Words, devised by The Diced Soup company, will be performed by West Notts College students on the BA (Hons) Applied Practice (Theatre) course."
http://www.hucknalldispatch.co.uk

Una Foto que se toma uno mismo, autofoto.

Selfie.

Nicolás Maduro took an excellent selfie.

In News:

"Teach me how to take a good selfie,"
Gazette.com 

"Don't use a photo your mother took of you at last year's family beach outing. Don't use a selfie."
Forbes.com

Es sólo un decir.

It is just a figure of speech.

"You usually use the figure of speech "break a leg" to wish actors good luck."
Cambridge Dictionary Online

In Modern Literature:

“If you ever touch my coffee, I’ll see to it that you’re sent to the mail room to lick stamps.”
 “We have an automated licker. Do they lick stamps on Wall Street?”
 “It was a figure of speech.”
The Firm by John Grisham.

In Cartoons:

KING FEATURES

Teléfono de disco

Rotary phone, rotary dial phone, rotary dial telephone.


On Websites:

Pink Retro Old Fashioned Rotary Dial Telephone

Amazon.com

In News:

"A nugget of Philly technology is going the way of the Walkman, rotary telephone, Beta tapes, pet rocks, TurboGrafx 16 and phone booths."

NBC

"For those of us who still remember rotary phones this innovation is truly extraordinary. By and large, such technological developments have been a benefit to our society and our economy."

The Hill.

Un telephone a cadran en anglais en espagnol.

Empatucar un piso, ensuciar un piso (al caminar sobre él).

To track up a floor, to track on a floor.

Don't  come into the bedroom while I am mopping the floor. You will track it up.

In Modern Literature:

"It's no time to be tracking up her shiny floors."
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.

In Cartoons:

Hagar the Horrible

Cielo Falso, Cielo Raso.

Photo: Daily Mail UK

Dropped ceiling.

I will have a dropped ceiling installed in my bedroom.


In Modern Litarature.

¨"Back in the late sisties, in an effort to improve the lighting, a dropped ceiling had been installed."
The Last Juror by John Grisham.

In News:

"The only sign of anything wrong - apart from the missing cables and piping- was a hold in the dropped ceiling."
Daily Mail UK

Taller de latonería y pintura.

Auto body shop, body shop.

There is an auto body shop nearby.

On the Radio: 

Commercial broadcast on Sunny 106.5 FM Texas on January 12 2014.

In News:

"Despite the hazardous conditions that seemingly sends cars slip sliding through the slush, auto body shops have yet to see a true uptick in business."
Yonkers Daily Voice.

Foto: Yonkers Daily Voice.

¿Cuánto de incial?

How much down? (forma corta)

How much down (did you pay for the apartment)?


In Modern Literature:

How much down?
The Firm by John Grisham.