nuts and bolts | Idiomator

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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".

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