on the rag
Language: en
Meaning: (slang,vulgar,idiomatic,derogatory,sometimeseuphemistic)Menstruating.Synonym:on one's period1974, Stephen King,Carrie, page14:She herself had begun menstruation shortly after her eleventh birthday and had gone to the head of the stairs to yell down excitedly: "Hey, Mum, I'mon the rag!"1983,The Big Chill:Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want tojumpher while she'son the rag.; (slang,vulgar,idiomatic,derogatory,by extension)In abadmood;angryorirritable.1967, University of South Dakota, English Dept,Current Slang, Volumes 2-5, page 5:On the rag, in a bad mood.—College males, Arizona. I had a lousy time last night because she wason the rag.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seeon,the,rag.
Examples:EN: My nag is on the rag today.
ES: Está nerviosa. Ha perdido los estribos.
EN: God forbid she'll be on the rag for the rest of the trip.
ES: Ahora lucirá espantosa durante el resto del viaje.
EN: Christ, chick's on the rag, man.
ES: Cristo, las chicas están sensibles.
EN: That chick is definitely on the rag.
ES: Esa chica es definitivamente rara.
EN: - I can't help it if you're on the rag.
ES: No puedo evitarlo si estás en el trapo.
EN: My mother's on the rag again.
ES: - Mi madre está en el trapo otra vez.
EN: Eight broads on the rag. What are you going to do?
ES: Hey, Rox, necesitamos ocho pollas. ¿Qué vas a hacer?
EN: Goddamn, is that bitch on the rag or what?
ES: Maldita sea, ¿esa zorra esta con la regla, o qué?
EN: There are always going to be queens on the rag.
ES: Siempre habran maricones desgraciados.
EN: Old Fadela must be on the rag.
ES: ¡La vieja Fadela debe estar en las últimas!
EN: There was no poison on the rag and there was no intent to kill and any attempt to prove otherwise is futile, because it just ain't true.
ES: ¿Demostrar que había veneno o que hubo intención de matar?
EN: - Are you on the rag or something?
ES: - ¿Estás con la menstruación?
EN: - He's on the rag.
ES: - Tiene el período.
EN: Banky on the rag?
ES: ¿Banky esta molesto?
EN: Are you on the rag?
ES: ¿Estas indispuesta?
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