Estrenar un Vehículo, Estrenar un Coche.

To break in a car.

When you buy a new car, it is important to know how to break it in properly.

In Modern Literature:

"My wife, Tere, and I purchased a new car in December. Even Though we had tickets to fly from California to Houston to visit her family for Christmas, we decided to drive to Texas to break in the new car. We packed the car and took off for a wonderful week with Grandma."

Hugh Downs. Attitude-One of Life's Chices. Second Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul."

In the News:

"A brand-new car, shiny and crisp. It makes you want to spend the whole evening walking around it. Pretty soon, the neighbors wander over to congratulate you—and to render advice.Break it in carefully, one says: “No more than 30 miles per hour until it has 1000 miles on the odo.”

Popular Mechanics.

"Breaking in a New Vehicle. Buying a new car is a great experience. There is nothing like the joy of owning something you have wanted and looked forward to for a long time. Of course, you want to do everything right and not damage this new machine. Treating the vehicle right from the time you take possession will extend the life of your new car. Let's look at what the experts suggest."
Atropolis.com

Articles:

How to break in a new car. Popular Mechanics.
How to break in a new car. Atropolis.com

Llevar Puesta al Revés una Prenda de Vestir.

To have something on inside out, to wear something inside out.

Have you ever put on/worn a shirt inside-out and did not know it until later?

In Dictionaries:

"She had her jumper on inside out."
Cambridge Dictionary Online.


In Movies:

"Pull out your pants pockets. All kids in the future wear their pants inside out." —Doc tells Marty how to be fashionable in 2015.
FUTUROPEDIA.

Imagen: Roswell United Methodist Church.

Usar Pantalones muy por debajo de la Cintura.

To wear sagging/saggy/low-slung pants/ trousers, to sag one's pants.

Never wear sagging pants. You could have a skid mark.



In the News:

"Arkansas students who love their sagging pants should soon leave them at home. "
Reuters.

"The Brooklyn politician is behind six new billboards around town taking on the saggy pants trend."
Huffpost New York.

"A parliamentary subcommittee, voted in by trusting citizens and tasked with thrashing out bills that could possibly be passed into state law, actually sat down and discussed pupils' low-slung trousers and decided to legislate on this."
The Times (England).

When I started the sixth grade, I quickly learned that unless I stopped reading Harry Potter and started sagging my pants, wearing ankle socks and and unbuttoning the top of my school uniform, I was destined to be a loser FOR LIFE. So I did what all middle schoolers of my generation did.
Dailyfill.com

Foto: The Online Law Blog

Contrato Colectivo.

Collective agreement.

Venezuelan teachers need to reach a new collective agreement.

In the News:

"The Halifax screeners, members of Steelworkers Local 5319, previously voted 97 per cent in favour of strike action to back their contract demands. The screeners' previous collective agreement expired March 31."

CNW.

"A union representing about 50000 postal workers is at odds with Canada Post after failing to reach a new collective agreement, which could lead to a strike."

Journal Pioneer.


Imagen: lswilson.ca

Cables de Electricidad que están en la Calle.

Utility wires.

Watch out for a dangling utility wire near the bakery.




On Websites:

"Stop as quickly as safety permits and stay in the vehicle. Avoid stopping near or under buildings, trees, overpasses, and utility wires."
FEMA.

In the News:

"Yaxley said her daughter worried so much that someone would get hurt that the family nicknamed the leaning pole and its cat’s cradle of utility wires “Lexi’s Pole.”"
Dallas News.

Ir a un Equipo Deportivo, Apoyar un Equipo Deportivo (informal)

To be for a team, to root for a team.

In Venezuela most people are for Magallanes and Caracas baseball teams.
In Venezuela most people root for Magallanes and Caracas baseball teams.

In Modern Literature.

Mitch chuckled to himself. They rode silently on the interstate loop. "So who's gonna win the Super Bowl?" he asked.
"Oilers."
"Think so, huh? I'm for the Redskins. That's all they talked about in Washington."
The Firm by John Grisham.

In Dictionaries:

We're rooting for the college baseball team.
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Pastel de Varios Pisos.

Multi-tier cake.

Multi-tiered cake.


The bride and groom cut the first slice of a delicious eight-tiered wedding cake .

In the News:

"As part of Lakeside School's Royal Wedding Extravaganza, an imitation ... with a wedding breakfast prepared by students and a three-tier wedding cake."
Times 24.

"Prince William and his bride Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, cut the first slice of the magnificent eight-tiered wedding cake this afternoon."
Daily Mail.

"Cake designer Fiona Cairns is creating a multi-tiered traditional fruit cake to serve more than 600 guests at the royal wedding on Friday."
USA Today.

Audio: The Associated Press.

Une pièce montée en anglais in English en espagnol en español,

Caserío (lugar con pocas casas y habitantes)

Hamlet.

Blanquillo, which has a population of about 900 inhabitants, is a hamlet located in Falcón State, Venezuela.


In the news:

"The hamlet, with a population of 299, is a wide place in the old Dublin-Limerick road, about 50 miles east of Limerick."

UPI

"That didn’t happen for the hamlet, located south of what is now the Cottage Grove Public Works complex on West Point Douglas Drive, where there currently are 13 homes and the Langdon School that was closed in 1955."
South Washington County Bulletin.

Foto: Diario Notitarde La Costa.

Especial Boda Real.

Sobrevuelo.

Tocados.

Beso de piquito.

Cola (de un vestido)

Carruaje tirado pos caballos.

Sobrevuelo.

Flyby.

"Seven RAF aircraft, including a Lancaster bomber, performed a fly by over Buckingham Palace ."
StarPhoenix .



In the News:

"As part of an aerial salute to the new couple, a special RAF fly-by will occur overhead just five minutes after the Queen and the Bride and Bridegroom, together with their Families, appear on the Balcony at the palace."
Newsstar.com

"There was a roar of approval from the crowd as William and his bride exchanged a peck on the lips Friday. It was quickly followed by another, then a flyby of vintage and modern Royal Air Force planes."

Chicago Sun Times.

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