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catch flies
Language:
Meanings:
1.
Global English
neutral
To capture or trap flying insects literally, as an activity or task.
2.
Global English
neutral
sports
To catch a fly ball in sports such as baseball or cricket; to catch a ball hit high into the air.
3.
Global English
informal
proverbial
figurative
To occupy oneself with trivial, petty, or idle matters instead of more important tasks; to be inactive or unproductive.
To attract or win people over, especially used in proverbial contexts (as in the expression about catching flies with honey rather than vinegar).
4.
Global English
informal
colloquial
To accomplish a small or insignificant gain; to achieve something minor or negligible.
Examples:
EN:
Baseball players catch flies.
ES:
Cazar al vuelo es en el baseball.
EN:
You cannot catch flies with vinegar.
ES:
No se cazan moscas con vinagre.
EN:
He seems possessed to catch flies.
ES:
Tiene obsesión por cazar moscas.
EN:
"The eagle does not catch flies.
ES:
"El águila no atrapa a las moscas.
EN:
Baseball players catch flies.
ES:
Cazar al vuelo es en el baseball.
EN:
You cannot catch flies with vinegar.
ES:
No se cazan moscas con vinagre.
EN:
He seems possessed to catch flies.
ES:
Tiene obsesión por cazar moscas.
EN:
Shut your mouth, you won't catch flies.
ES:
En las magdalenas puedes cazar moscas.
EN:
Russell, you'd better go hose off... or you're gonna catch flies.
ES:
Russel, es mejor que te marches o terminarás cazando moscas.
EN:
*You can't catch flies with vinegar. On n'attrape pas les mouches avec le vinaigre.
ES:
- No se atrapan moscas con vinagre.
EN:
Mr. Eheres says we have to catch flies out in the field.
ES:
El Sr. Eheres dijo que teníamos que atrapar moscas en el campo.
EN:
Boko couldn't fathom why anyone would want to catch flies!
ES:
Y 'Boko' contestó que no conocía a ese tal 'mosca'.
EN:
"You don't catch flies with vinegar."
ES:
"No se cazan moscas con vinagre."
EN:
What you want me to do? Sit at home and catch flies?
ES:
¿Qué quieres que haga, que cace moscas?
EN:
Looks to me like we're still trying to catch flies with chopsticks.
ES:
Me parece que no logramos pruebas concluyentes.
EN:
This Pasquale- he can catch flies in midair with those reflexes.
ES:
Ese es Pasquale, cogería moscas al vuelo con esos reflejos.
EN:
You want to catch flies with it.
ES:
Quieres cazar moscas con él.
EN:
As if I couldn't catch flies.
ES:
Como si no pudiera atrapar moscas.
EN:
"The eagle does not catch flies.
ES:
"El águila no atrapa a las moscas.
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