pull a lever | Idiomator

Meaning: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seepull,‎lever.; (idiomatic,transitive)Tovote.2007, Mark Crispin Miller,Fooled Again:She tried topull a leverfor the mainstream candidate and it wouldn't work.2020, Stephen E. Strang,God, Trump, and the 2020 Election:You may dislike much about a candidate, but God calls us to make the hard choice andpull a leverfor one or the other—even if it means voting less for a candidate than against another.

Examples:

EN: Ronnie. You don't need to see to pull a lever.
ES: - No me hará falta ver.
EN: Suppose you could pull a lever like he's pressing that button now.
ES: Ahora accionas una palanca igual que él aprieta ese botón.
EN: Look! You pull a lever, like this.
ES: Se tira de la palanca.
EN: As I count them down you pull a lever.
ES: En cada número, baja una palanca.
EN: All those little houses down there, just pull a lever and poof!
ES: Todas esas viviendas ahí abajo, sólo tirando una palanca...¡paf!
EN: And now you're telling me that we don't have a case... because two cops at 6:00 in the morning... searched the scoop of a garbage truck... instead of waiting for some guy to pull a lever.
ES: ¿Y ahora me dice que va a desestimar el caso... porque dos policías a las 6:00 de la mañana... registraron la pala de un camión de la basura... en lugar de esperar a que el basurero bajara la manivela?
EN: We've got five women murdered... and the killer's free because a garbage man didn't pull a lever.
ES: Tenemos cinco mujeres asesinadas... y un asesino queda en libertad porque el basurero no bajó la manivela.
EN: Can I pull a lever?
ES: ¿ Una palanca?
EN: I was thinking about the plurality of Americans who decided to pull a lever with your name.
ES: Pensaba en la mayoría relativa que decidió... -...darle su voto de confianza.
EN: If I could pull a lever and drop you, I'd do it.
ES: Si pudiera tirar de una palanca y dejarle caer, lo haría.
EN: Somebody pull a lever or press a button or something!
ES: ¡Alguien tire de una palanca, apriete un botón o algo!
EN: You can't just put the drugs in, pull a lever, and expect a clear response.
ES: No puedes darle drogas, accionar la palanca, y esperar una respuesta clara.
EN: Folks are getting rich every day, and all they got to do is pull a lever on a machine.
ES: La gente se hace rica cada día, y todo lo que tienen que hacer es tirar una palanca en una máquina.
EN: An out of control trolley car is speeding towards 5 people tied to a track but, you can pull a lever and make the trolley swerve into another track
ES: Un tranvía fuera de control rodando hacia cinco personas , los cuales están ligados a los rieles . Uno podría , no obstante, ajustar un interruptor, tranvía del redirige a otro carril ,
EN: When you have memorized them, you will pull a lever, drop a curtain, and reproduce the sequence.
ES: Una vez los hayáis memorizado, tirad de la palanca, bajad la cortina y recreadlo.

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