skip a beat | Idiomator

Meaning: (literally)Tomissabeat.; (by extension,when of aheart)Toexperienceastrongemotion.1997, David J. Pelzer,The lost boy: a foster child's search for the love of a family:My heart seemed toskip a beatwhen I parked my car at the old Safeway supermarket. My eyes gaped at the same aisles I had strolled through as a child.1989, Lois Lowry,Number the stars:Her heart seemed toskip a beat. "Halte!" the soldier ordered in a stern voice.2001, Linda Bremner,love in the mail:What set it apart and caused my heart toskip a beatwere the words printed where the artist's signature usually goes,[…]; (by extension,idiomatic)Tomomentarilyfalter.2005, Amitav Ghosh,The hungry tide:THE MEGHA HAD BEEN on the water for some three hours when Piya heard the engineskip a beat.2008, Alan Howard Levy,Floyd Patterson: a boxer and a gentleman:Indeed, he did notskip a beat, stayed right with his training regimen, and flew out to Seattle on August 8.

Examples:

EN: The ships on her hips Made his heart skip a beat
ES: Los barcos de sus caderas Le ponían el corazón bota que bota
EN: " Hearts skip a beat at the mention of love"
ES: "El corazón late cuando se menciona al amor"
EN: She makes even a woman's heart skip a beat.
ES: Incluso al corazón de una mujer puede hacerlo dar un brinco.
EN: Even if it was frightening enough to make one's heart to skip a beat, or even something that could arouse men beyond all imagination!
ES: Algo que fuera tan terrorífico que hiciera que el corazón se detuviera por un momento, o que excitara a los hombres más allá de lo imaginable.
EN: My heart would skip a beat if I got so much.
ES: Mi corazón daría un vuelco si tuviera tanto.
EN: The operation doesn't skip a beat. We all make out.
ES: Todos salimos ganando.
EN: She,d make hearts skip a beat!
ES: leila haría corazones salta un golpe!
EN: The government did not skip a beat.
ES: El gobierno no ha dado ningún tropezón.
EN: My heart won't skip a beat
ES: Mi corazón no se brinca ni un latido
ES: Mi corazón no se brinca ni un latido
EN: Bradycardia-- slow heart. Every once in a while, just to make sure I don't skip a beat, the pacer kicks in, just like this one.
ES: Incluso con toda la gravedad de la Tierra entera atrayendo esta manzana hacia abajo, los músculos de mi brazo pueden contrarrestarla fácilmente.
EN: Don't skip a beat.
ES: No te saltees ni un detalle.
EN: I took a leak. I don't want to skip a beat.
ES: No quiero dejar pasar ningún detalle.
EN: You can dissect a heart, but you'll never know what makes it skip a beat.
ES: ¿Sabes? Puedes diseccionar un corazón, pero nunca sabrás qué lo hace latir.
EN: Courtesy of a lovely teacher... whose heart once found Bobby Long cause enough to skip a beat or two.
ES: Cortesía de una hermosa profesora... cuyo corazón alguna vez latió por Bobby Long.
EN: I shall live even if my heart has to skip a beat
ES: Viviré aunque mi corazón deje de latir

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