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flunk out
Language:
Meanings:
1.
US
Canada
informal
To be dismissed from or to leave an educational institution because of failing grades or insufficient academic performance.
2.
US
Canada
informal
transitive
To assign failing grades to a student in a manner that causes the student to repeat a course or to be removed from the institution.
Examples:
EN:
But if I do flunk out, I could get a job and then marry Lucia.
ES:
Pero si suspendo, podría conseguir un trabajo y luego casarme con Lucia.
EN:
He's too good at running back to flunk out.
ES:
Es demasiado bueno para volver a suspender.
EN:
Robert, either this Washington thing gets him thrown out or it comes to the same thing, he'll worry about it and flunk out.
ES:
Robert, o eso de Washington hace que lo echen o, lo que es lo mismo, va a preocuparse y va a suspender.
EN:
But Polly, suppose Max doesn't flunk out of here in six weeks and they send him 10,000 miles away.
ES:
Pero Polly, supón que Max no suspende en 6 semanas y le mandan a 10.000 millas de aquí.
EN:
Or you could flunk out for good.
ES:
O podrían expulsarle para siempre.
EN:
Did you flunk out?
ES:
Te suspendieron?
EN:
And if you don't flunk out, we'll see you again.
ES:
Si no tienen que abandonar, nos veremos de nuevo.
EN:
It has to do with my academic standing. It has to do with whether I flunk out of school or not.
ES:
Tiene que ver con mis estudios, con si continuaré la Universidad, o no.
EN:
I'll flunk out, and my folks will be pissed off.
ES:
No aprobaré y mis padres van a enojarse mucho.
EN:
What happened, you flunk out?
ES:
¿Qué pasó, abandonó los estudios?
EN:
Get the flunk out of here.
ES:
Que le falle un pez. Soldados.
EN:
Look, I'm not gonna flunk out just to see some dumb movie.
ES:
Escucha, no voy a dejar de estudiar por una tonta película.
EN:
I did not flunk out of chorus for nothing.
ES:
Por algo me echaron del coro de la escuela.
EN:
It's a long semester. Somebody will probably flunk out... Or die or something.
ES:
Suspensión, a veces expulsión.
EN:
What, did you flunk out of tollbooth school?
ES:
Qué, ¿te reprobar la escuela peaje?
EN:
But if I do flunk out, I could get a job and then marry Lucia.
ES:
Pero si suspendo, podría conseguir un trabajo y luego casarme con Lucia.
EN:
He's too good at running back to flunk out.
ES:
Es demasiado bueno para volver a suspender.
EN:
Robert, either this Washington thing gets him thrown out or it comes to the same thing, he'll worry about it and flunk out.
ES:
Robert, o eso de Washington hace que lo echen o, lo que es lo mismo, va a preocuparse y va a suspender.
EN:
But Polly, suppose Max doesn't flunk out of here in six weeks and they send him 10,000 miles away.
ES:
Pero Polly, supón que Max no suspende en 6 semanas y le mandan a 10.000 millas de aquí.
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