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nuts and bolts
Language:
Meanings:
1.
International (English)
neutral
informal
The basic, practical components or essential operational details of something; the fundamental elements that make a system, process, or activity work.
The practical, hands-on aspects as opposed to theory or abstraction.
2.
International (English)
neutral
Literal metal fasteners consisting of a nut and a bolt; small mechanical parts used to join components.
3.
International (English)
informal
Mundane mechanical work, ordinary manufactured hardware, or basic mass‑production items (often used pejoratively to denote unglamorous, routine manufacture).
4.
International (English)
informal
colloquial
A heap or jumble of scrap or broken mechanical parts; a wrecked or disassembled machine made up of loose components.
Examples:
EN:
And you spend half the night feeling around in the dark for nuts and bolts.
ES:
Y pasó la noche intentándo encontrar pernos a tientas.
EN:
It's getting so a girl can't compete with nuts and bolts.
ES:
Una chica ya no puede ni competir con tuercas y tornillos.
EN:
Maybe your life can revolve easily round making nuts and bolts but mine can't.
ES:
Quizás te baste dedicar tu vida a hacer tornillos, pero a mí no.
EN:
I've told you a thousand times we don't make nuts and bolts.
ES:
Te he dicho mil veces que no hacemos tornillos.
EN:
These guys would eat nuts and bolts... if you put some sauce on 'em!
ES:
¡Ellos comerían tuercas si les pusieras salsa!
EN:
I think the guy's short a few nuts and bolts.
ES:
Creo que le falta algún tornillo.
EN:
Well, she's not back there with the nuts and bolts, but she's here, in this town somewhere.
ES:
Bueno, no digo que esté en esta casa, pero sí en algún lugar de la ciudad.
EN:
You don't have time to take off the cowling and look at the nuts and bolts.
ES:
No tiene tiempo de levantar las tapas y revisar los tornillos.
EN:
I saw him when he was nothin' but a heap of nuts and bolts.
ES:
Lo vi cuando era nada más que tuercas y tornillos.
EN:
I'm going to take that new machine of whipple's and i'm going to turn it into nuts and bolts.
ES:
Voy a tomar esa máquina y a convertirla en tornillos y tuercas.
EN:
You say "nuts and bolts."
ES:
- Tenemos almohada para tres.
EN:
Fellow named Harold Beale... He used to supply nuts and bolts to a few plants in the Northeast, including mine;
ES:
-Un tal Harold Beal era proveedor de algunas plantas del noreste, incluida la mía.
EN:
Fellow named Harold Beale... He used to supply nuts and bolts to a few plants in the Northeast, including mine...
ES:
- Un tal Harold Beal era proveedor de algunas plantas del noreste, incluida la mía.
EN:
-I hardly thought it was nuts and bolts.
ES:
No pensé que se tratara de herramientas.
EN:
Tennessee, that traffic light is a lot of nuts and bolts.
ES:
"Tennessee, ese semáforo es un montón de tornillos".
EN:
And you spend half the night feeling around in the dark for nuts and bolts.
ES:
Y pasó la noche intentándo encontrar pernos a tientas.
EN:
It's getting so a girl can't compete with nuts and bolts.
ES:
Una chica ya no puede ni competir con tuercas y tornillos.
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