minor miracle | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Animprobable,unexpected, orsurprisingachievement or other occurrence that isfortunateandagreeable.1874,Sir Richard Francis Burton,Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, Volume 1,page193:When the vessel showed some symptoms of unsteadiness, I arose, walked gravely up to her, ranged the pilgrims around her with their shoulders to the sides, and told them to heave with might. . . . Each Maghrabi worked like an Atlas . . . and, sliding heavily through the sand, once more floated off into deep water. This was generally voted aminor miracle, and the Effendi was respected—for a day or two.1940September 30, “Radio: Believers in Fur”, inTime, retrieved4 August 2016:Last week over a CBS network Robert Ripley reunited after 40 years a mother and her long-lost son. Having accomplished thisminor miracle, Ripley changed the pace of his Believe It Or Not show.1970January, “AMC Javelin 390 SST”, inCar and Driver, retrieved4 August 2016:The engineers at AMC have wrought aminor miraclein modifying this archaic transmission so that it is merely inconvenient instead of being an outright disappointment.1998March 8, Clifford Krauss, “Dialing for Dollars in Brazil's Telephone Privatization”, inNew York Times, retrieved4 August 2016:The country's telephone service, however, is another matter. Getting a dial tone and holding a conversation free of static areminor miracles.2009March 30,Marcus Armytage, “Racing Diary”, inTelegraph, UK, retrieved4 August 2016:Richard Dunwoody . . . did however perform oneminor miracle; managing to eat a bowl of cereal on horseback while looking at the camera and still finding his mouth with the spoon without spillage.

Examples:

EN: I thought we were to be satisfied with a minor miracle...
ES: Pensé que nos conformaría el simple milagro...
EN: Ah, good. And every now and then , a minor miracle.
ES: - Y, cada tanto, un milagro menor.
EN: A minor miracle, something on the scale of water into wine.
ES: Un milagro menor, en la escala de convertir el vino en agua.
EN: When did this minor miracle occur?
ES: Cuando hizo esto milagro menor ocurre?
EN: In fact, it's kind of a minor miracle.
ES: Es casi como un milagro.
EN: In fact, I think it's a minor miracle.
ES: De hecho es casi un milagro.
EN: Funny, in the process of setting myself up with Tracy Lee for the G.A.G. Dance, I'd worked a minor miracle. PARKER: Looks like every eligible guy was with every eligible girl.
ES: Curioso, en el proceso de lograr que Tracy Lee me invite al baile CBC... .. he logrado un pequeño milagro, parece como si cada estudiante hubiera encontrado su pareja.
EN: You know, if you knew anything about horticulture, if you had empathy for any living thing at all, you would know that every plant is a minor miracle of interdependence- that they're a self-regulating network that-that manufactures and transfers food,
ES: Si supieras algo de horticultura... si tuvieras empatía con cualquier cosa viva... sabrías que toda planta es un milagrito de interdependencia.
EN: - It's a minor miracle.
ES: - Es un pequeño milagro.
EN: These days that's a minor miracle.
ES: Un milagro en la actualidad.
EN: It's something of a minor miracle that I was able to locate this one source.
ES: Ha sido un milagro que lograra dar con este vendedor.
EN: You came through it alive, which they're considering another not-so-minor miracle and you don't want the power.
ES: Usted salió de ahí vivo, lo que consideran que es otro maravilloso milagro... y no quiere el poder.
EN: As you may recall, it was a minor miracle that either of you survived that incident.
ES: Como recordarán, fue un milagro que sobrevivieran.
EN: Maureen got a "B" in algebra, which is a minor miracle and Kathleen's orthodontist said we might not have to have a whole retainer...
ES: Maureen sacó un bien en álgebra, lo que es casi un milagro y el dentista de Kathleen dijo que tal vez no haya que ponerle...
EN: Inside a minor miracle happens.
ES: Y ocurre un pequeño milagro.

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