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louse up
Language:
Meanings:
1.
US
UK
general English
informal
colloquial
To ruin or spoil something through incompetence, carelessness, or mismanagement.
To cause an event, plan, or arrangement to fail or be seriously impaired.
2.
US
UK
general English
informal
colloquial
To make a mess of something; to handle something badly so that it becomes disordered or damaged.
To perform a task poorly or to botch an attempt.
Examples:
EN:
Honest, honest, too many cooks louse up the stroganoff.
ES:
Más de un cocinero estropea un Strogonoff.
EN:
Look, Jeff! Don't louse up my night with another mad killer...
ES:
Oye, no vayas a darme la noche con otro asesino loco...
EN:
You couldn't louse up our evening.
ES:
Bah... no podrías hacerlo.
EN:
He'll louse up the whole deal!
ES:
¡Vas a arruinarlo todo!
EN:
I hope this storm doesn't louse up your party.
ES:
Espero que esta tormenta no le agüe su fiesta.
EN:
Why should I louse up her life?
ES:
¿Por qué arruinar su vida?
EN:
- Oh, for heaven's sake, don't pull that, you'll louse up everything.
ES:
Dije, dije que no tiraras hacia arriba. Lo arruinaste.
EN:
- And that can louse up an evening.
ES:
- Eso puede estropear la noche.
EN:
- Don't louse up your marriage... to Maeve for Frank Skeffington. - Thank you.
ES:
- Gracias.
EN:
If you louse up this job...
ES:
- Bennett, como fastidies este trabajo... - ¡Tú haz lo que te he dicho!
EN:
But I'd have to louse up deliveries to customers we've had 10, 20 years.
ES:
Pero tendria que fastidiar entregas a clientes que tenemos hace 10, 20 años.
EN:
I don't like to louse up a new sporting jacket, but maybe you and I could settle this between us.
ES:
No me gusta ensuciarme con una chaqueta deportiva nueva, pero tal vez tú y yo podamos arreglar esto entre nosotros.
EN:
You want me to louse up my marriage?
ES:
¿Y estropear mi matrimonio?
EN:
You'll louse up the act.
ES:
Arruinarás el espectáculo.
EN:
I don't like the way they louse up everyone else.
ES:
No me gusta cómo estropean a los demás.
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