candle in the wind

Meaning: (idiomatic)Afragileorvulnerablething, likely to be put injeopardy.1929, Earl Derr Biggers, chapter VII, inThe Black Camel, Bobbs-Merrill:A woman of flame, they had called her. The flame had flickered and died like acandle in the wind--in the restless trade-wind blowing from the Koolau Range.1990, Muthiah Alagappa, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (Malaysia),Building confidence, resolving conflicts: proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Roundtable, Kuala Lumpur, July 1-4, 1988, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia, p. 14:The South Koreans have indeed accomplished an economic miracle in the past three decades but their economy is 'a candle in the wind'[…]1999, Royal African Society,African affairs, Volume 98, Published for the Royal African Society by the Oxford University Press, p. 114:... tyranny in Cameroon today is acandle in the wind. Its days, it is hoped, are numbered ...2004, K.D. Gangrade,Moral Lessons From Gandhi S Autobiography And Other Essays, Concept Publishing Company, page178:There are a good number of people who feel that the girl child's life in India is a 'candle' in the windwhich flickers for a moment to be extinguished for ever.2007,Pacific indigenous dialogue: on faith, peace, reconciliation and good governance, Alafua Campus,Continuing and Community Education Programme, University of the South Pacific, p. 192:Sometimes around here, it seems like hope is acandle in the wind.2010, Phillip Dibble,The Fundamental Things, AuthorHouse, page91:Ethiopia is acandle in the wind, the winds of war and fate[…]

Examples:

EN: "Because in him too there flickers the small flame like a candle in the wind." "That has not gone out even in this dark land."
ES: como una vela al viento que no se ha apagado, ni siquiera, en este sombrío país.
EN: I s it to be blown out like a candle in the wind?
ES: ¿Es ser apagado de un soplo como una vela al viento?
EN: A candle in the wind Yeah I'll make you famous.
ES: Si Brushy Bill Roberts era o no Billy The Kid sigue siendo un misterio.
EN: Your honor, the right to privacy, as you well know, is guaranteed under our Constitution, but now, thanks to our current supreme court, that right is flickering like a candle in the wind, and the breeze is picking up.
ES: Pero ahora, gracias a la actual Suprema Corte ese derecho está parpadeando como una vela en el viento y el viento es cada vez más fuerte. Pero el juez Scalia y los de su calaña no presiden este juicio.
EN: I'm a candle in the wind
ES: Soy una vela en el viento
EN: But, then again, she was like a candle in the wind.
ES: Pero ella era como una vela al viento...
EN: Like a candle in the wind, she was my friend
ES: Se estaba tramando, ella era mi amiga
EN: But now, thanks to our current Supreme Court... that right is flickering like a candle in the wind... and the breeze is picking up.
ES: Pero ahora, gracias a la actual Suprema Corte ese derecho está parpadeando como una vela en el viento y el viento es cada vez más fuerte.
EN: She is our little candle in the wind.
ES: Ella es nuestra pequeña vela en el viento.
EN: there's a moment I walk out onto the balcony- he had been listening to "candle in the wind" over and over and over.
ES: Hay un momento en que salgo al balcón... él había estado escuchando "Candle in the Wind" una y otra vez.
EN: What's 5,000 times better than a candle in the wind?
ES: ¿Qué es 5.000 veces mejor que una vela en el viento?
EN: I just saw the other contestants backstage getting ready and none of the Marilyn monroes can hold a candle in the wind to you.
ES: Vi a los demás participantes en el backstage Y ninguna de las Marilyn Monroes te llegan a la suela del zapato.
EN: Meaning we are like a candle in the wind.
ES: Lo que significa que somos como una vela en el viento.
EN: The fate of the country is like 'a candle in the wind.'
ES: El destino del país es como 'una vela en el viento. "
EN: I'm a candle in the wind.
ES: Soy un alma libre.

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