En inglés: alabar a una persona con el objeto de obtener algo de ella.

How to say it when you are very kind or friendly to someone or try to please someone, so that that person will do what you want them to do.

Jalarle (mecate) a alguien para que haga algo (Venezuela).
Hacerle la barba a alguien (México)
Chupar medias a alguien para que te haga un favor (Ecuador).
Ser un lava huevos de alguien para que ese alguien te haga un favor (Costa Rica).

To butter someone up so that they do something for you (informal).
To butter someone up before they do something (informal).

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You'll have to butter them up a bit before they'll agree.
Cambridge Dictionary

Don’t think you can butter me up that easily.
Longman Dictionary

Agree with him. Butter him up a bit.
Longman Dictionary.

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Cirer les pompes de qqn dans l'espoir d'obtenir qqch.

Il a essayé de cirer les pompes de son chef dans l'espoir d'obtenir un jour de congés.
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En inglés: Tenerla agarrada con alguien, meterse con alguien

How to say it in a colloquial way when someone is  criticized, annoyed, or punished  repeatedly and unfairly:

Tenerla agarrada con alguien (Venezuela).
Meterse con alguien.

To pick on someone.

The teacher is always picking on me.

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In Dictionaries:

"He gets picked on because he’s small."
Cambridge Dictionary

"Just leave me alone, will you? Why don't you go and pick on someone your own size?"

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S'en prendre a qqn.

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En Inglés: se fue el agua, no hay agua, no tengo agua.

How to say in a colloquial way when the water service is cut off because a piece of equipment is being repaired, replaced , etc.

The water went off.

I have no water.

There's no water.

The water went off today, so I resorted to taking a bucket bath.

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EN INGLÉS: Pega corriente , da corrientazos.

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It shocks. (informal).
An appliance shocks (informal)
An object shocks (someone)..
It gives electric shocks (formal).
You get shocks from it.


Don't touch the door. It shocks.
The refrigerator is giving (electric) shocks.

In Dictionaries:

"Ow! - I got a shock from that lamp!"
Cambridge Dictionary Online

Referring to a wire carrying electricity:
Live /laiv/
That cable is live,  but it does not shock.
A live wire

EN INGLÉS: Pagarla con alguien, desquitarse con alguien.

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To take it out on somebody.

You are taking out on me just because none of your friends wanna come.

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Passer ses nerfs sur qqn.

"Ne passe pas tes nerfs sur moi !"
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EN INGLÉS: Estar pendiente, estar al pendiente.

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Watch out for something.
Look out for something.
Be on the watch for something.

Please, stay on the watch for my call.
I will watch/look out for your call.

In Dictionaries.

"She looks out for the postman every morning."
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"Look out for special deals."
Collins Dictionary Online

"What are the symptoms to look out for?"
Collins Dictionary Online


En francai In French En francés
Guetter qch
Les soldats guettent l’ennemi.

En español En espagnol In Spanish

Bañarse con tobo y pote, bañarse con totuma-

When you take a bath without a bath or a shower.

To bucket bath, to take a bucket bath.

In the countryside, people always have to bucket bath almost all the time.


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"Knowing how to take a bucket bath is a useful skill, particularly if you're traveling in a remote area or trying to conserve resources."
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To cut/slice something lengthways.

To cut/clice something lengthwise.


Cut the avocado lengthways.


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"When a recipe calls for sliced onions, you have a choice of how to slice them—lengthwise"

Simply Recipes.

In Dictionaries:

"Cut the pickles lengthwise."

Cambridge Dictionary Online.