no-frills | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Basicorsimple; providing only what isnecessary, without anythingextraorfancy.He rented ano-frillsapartment and cooked his own meals.2014January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, inThe New York Times‎[1]:Another friend[…]gathered a group to go to[…]ano-frillscomfort food restaurant, with a vast menu of classics sold at extraordinarily low prices: the only item in the 11-page menu over 1,000 forints was a bottle of sparkling wine, a reasonable 1,190 forints for 0.7 liters.2015April 6,Mary Norris, “Spelling Is for Weirdos”, inBetween You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, New York, N.Y.:W. W. Norton & Company, published2016,→ISBN,page16:Although it is a pain whenever I want to double a consonant before a suffix, perNew Yorkerstyle, and the spell-check prefers theno-frillsversion—“mislabeled,” say, instead of “mislabelled”—and I have to go back and poke in the extra letter and then put up with a disapproving red line under the word, I would never disable spell-check.2022November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, inRAIL, number969, page58:Other stops retainno-frillsbrick-built shelters, although local community rail groups do their best to improve the ambience with planting, posters and artwork.

Examples:

EN: Theorists, no-frills people, sleepy scientists!
ES: - Tú no lo sabes, ¿verdad? - ¡Cálmate!
EN: - Want a no-frills?
ES: - ¿Quieres un sin-lujos?
EN: - What's a no-frills?
ES: - ¿Qué es un sin-lujos?
EN: Want a no-frills?
ES: ¿No lo soy?
EN: I know. The no-frills girl.
ES: Lo sé, la muchacha sin adornos, ¿verdad?
EN: Followed by exactly eight minutes of no-frills sex.
ES: Seguido de ocho minutos exactos de sexo sin florituras.
EN: we keep it no-frills.
ES: No nos gustan los lujos.
EN: Now departing, no-frills airlines flight 89.
ES: Ahora salen, de vuelo de bajo coste aerolíneas 89.
EN: It's strictly no-frills, but it's fast.
ES: No es estrictamente emocionante, pero es rápida.
EN: This is your basic, no-frills heart attack.
ES: Esto es un basico, ataque cardíaco por indigestion.
EN: One game-- Good, old-fashioned, no-frills penny can.
ES: Deberías coger a Ellie e ir a buscarla y darle una oportunidad de hacer las cosas bien.
EN: And the no-frills burial?
ES: Y el entierro de bajo coste?
EN: What better way to cross state lines than a no-frills meat truck?
ES: ¿Qué mejor manera de cruzar las fronteras estatales que en un camión de carne sin lujos?
EN: Lauren, you first? With the strong and impressive, but no-frills bars of Payson Keeler. Ready to rock it!
ES: Lauren, ¿tú primero?
EN: The first Stay Rite was built in 1965 by Lester Butterfield as a no-frills alternative to the increasingly upscale Holiday inns.
ES: El primer Stay Rite fue construido en 1965 por Lester Butterfield como una alternativa sencilla al aumento de los exclusivos Holiday Inns.

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