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cop out
Language:
Meanings:
1.
United States
United Kingdom
International
informal
disapproving
To avoid responsibility, duty, or commitment, especially by making an excuse or backing out.
To withdraw from a promise or obligation in a way regarded as cowardly or inadequate.
2.
United States
United Kingdom
International
informal
disapproving
An evasion or weak excuse used to avoid responsibility; an act of backing out.
Examples:
EN:
Well, your lady traffic cop out there had the signals against me.
ES:
Bueno, su policía privada no me dejaba pasar.
EN:
What are you trying to do, make a dumb fiction cop out of me?
ES:
Que es lo que quiere hacer, convertirme en un estúpido policía de historietas?
EN:
Well, your lady traffic cop out there had the signals against me.
ES:
Bueno, su policía privada no me dejaba pasar.
EN:
What are you trying to do, make a dumb fiction cop out of me?
ES:
Que es lo que quiere hacer, convertirme en un estúpido policía de historietas?
EN:
Get that cop out here.
ES:
¡Trae a ese poli!
EN:
- Until I felt sick, but I'd rather be sick than keep a bad taste in my mouth... That's a cop out!
ES:
- Hasta asquearme, pero prefiero mi nuevo asco al gusto repugnante de antes... ¡Ah, eso es fácil...!
EN:
He won't cop out.
ES:
- No va a ceder.
EN:
Waking up some cop out of a sound sleep.
ES:
Es un delito despertar a un poli.
EN:
- When I advise you to cop out, you'll know.
ES:
- Ya le diré cuando tiene que suplicar.
EN:
If you're not telling me to cop out, what are you telling me?
ES:
Si no me está diciendo que suplique, ¿qué está diciéndome?
EN:
- You're going to cop out, aren't you?
ES:
- Se va a declarar culpable, ¿no?
EN:
It's the cops! Gino, there's a cop out there.
ES:
Poneos a cubierto, no podemos dejar que entren.
EN:
Will you listen to me? Now, look, i'm not trying to cop out, george.
ES:
Escucha, George
EN:
I am not trying to cop out.
ES:
No, no me estoy echando atrás.
EN:
Look, you want to cop out?
ES:
Mira, ¿quieres escaparte?
EN:
- You didn't cop out to the bulls?
ES:
- ¿No confesarías algo que no es cierto?
EN:
No, I didn't cop out at all.
ES:
No, no confesé nada.
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