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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Hacer guardia (un vigilante, un soldado, un policia, un oficial, un funcionario...)

Foto: Diario Notitarde

To stand guard, tu guard something, to keep guard.

Do not worry. The police will stand guard over the door.

In News:

"The Old Guard guarded the tomb every minutw of every day since April 6, 1948. Today will be no exception."
Fox

"Tomb of the Unknown soldiers stand guard during Hurricane Sandy"
Fox

"Spc. Brett Hyde, Tomb Sentinel, 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), keeps guard over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier."
Fox

"A former Marine and father of two decided to help ease his daughter's fears after the tragic school shooting in Connecticut late last week by standing guard outside her west Nashville school."
News 2 ABC.

Arma Blanca

Sharp weapon.

He was killed with a sharp weapon.

In News:

"Mr. Lakshmanan, who went to the house of the suspects in plain clothes, suffered severe injuries when he was suddenly pulled inside and attacked with sharp weapons during the operation"
The Hindu.

"The autopsy reports suggest that the man was attacked with a sharp weapon,"
 Indian Express

Asaltar a una Persona en su Propio Carro/Coche/Automóvil para Secuestrarla en el Mismo.

To carjack someone.

They will carjack him if he goes to the slums.

In News:

" Former Astros right fielder Richard Hidalgo was shot in the left forearm when he was carjacked in Venezuela in 2002."
MLB Online.

Foto: The California Highway Patrol.

A Punta de Pistola.

At gunpoint.



The man was robbed at gunpoint.


In News:

"Wilson Ramos was kidnapped at gunpoint."

Washington Times.

"Pierce County prosecutors have charged a 27-year-old man with carjacking a woman at gunpoint Tuesday in the South Hill area. "

The News Tribune.

Autor Material de un Crimen.

Perpetrator.

"The perpetrators of the massacre must be brought to justice as war criminals."

Cambridge Dictionary Online.

In News:

"The Israeli deputy police commissioner, Shahar Ayalon, said at the scene it was "definitely a terrorist attack" by the 30-year-old construction worker who – like the perpetrator of the yeshiva killings – came from Arab East Jerusalem.

The Independent UK.

EN INGLÉS: Autor Intelectual de un Crimen.

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Mastermind.

The police arrested alleged mastermind behind the murder of Carabobo University student.

In News:

"Mathew Naidoo, accused of being the mastermind behind the brutal murders of Johan and Riekie Lotter, seemed "cocky, arrogant and full of himself" shortly after his arrest in 2008. "
Times Live

"Ms Politkovskaya's son Ilya also criticised authorities for failing to track down the mastermind."

The Independent UK

Retrato Hablado.

Composite sketch, composite, composite drawing, police sketch.

The police released the murderer's composite/ composite drawing and it was published in the local newspapers.

In Modern Literature:

"Occasionally a station along the coast would flash their composites on the screen. It scared them at first, but they got used to it."
The Firm by John Grisham.

In News:

"The Riley County Police Department has released a composite drawing of the suspect accused of murdering Ronald Evans Taylor."
Kansas State Collegian.

"Nielsen interviewed the victim and made a composite drawing of a possible suspect, with the sketch distributed to officers in the department."
The Cap Times.

"Police released a composite sketch of a man who is connected to a rape that happened in broad daylight last week ."

Fox News.


"The federal agency in charge of the case said they had assembled the police sketches of two of the alleged kidnappers.
 CNN.com

 










NDTV


 Foto: Diario Notitarde.

Tiroteo, Intercambio de Disparos.

Crossfire.

The doctor was killed in crossfire as he went to help the wounded.

Oxford Dictionary for Advanced Learners.

In News:

"Mahmoud Jibril said crossfire broke out between revolutionary forces and supporters of the ousted leader after he was captured and bundled into a truck in his hometown of Sirte last night, CNN reports"
9News.

""When the vehicle started moving, it was caught in crossfire between Gaddafi fighters and the revolutionaries, and he was shot in the head," Jibril told reporters. "
9News.

"Heroes and victims: people caught in the crossfire." The Independent UK.