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smash up
Language:
Meanings:
1.
UK
Australia
US
Other English-speaking regions
informal
colloquial
To deliberately break, vandalize, or severely damage an object, place, or piece of property.
2.
US
UK
Australia
Other English-speaking regions
informal
slang
violent
To assault or beat someone severely; to physically attack so as to cause serious harm.
3.
UK
Australia
informal
neutral
To be involved in a violent collision or wreck; to crash (often used in the form "a smash-up" for the noun meaning 'a crash').
4.
US
UK
Australia
Other English-speaking regions
informal
figurative
To ruin or severely disrupt someone's life, plans, or prospects; to cause major personal or reputational damage.
Examples:
EN:
If I could only once smash up that damned apparatus!
ES:
¡Si pudiera cargarme ese maldito aparato!
EN:
Oh, don't let this thing smash up our lives.
ES:
Ah, no dejes que esto destruya nuestras vidas.
EN:
If they smash up that infernal gun, then honor is satisfied and you needn't go.
ES:
Si destruyen el cañón vuestro honor estará a salvo y no tendréis que ir.
EN:
To smash up the only friend you've got.
ES:
Para terminar con el único amigo que le queda.
EN:
If I could only once smash up that damned apparatus!
ES:
¡Si pudiera cargarme ese maldito aparato!
EN:
Oh, don't let this thing smash up our lives.
ES:
Ah, no dejes que esto destruya nuestras vidas.
EN:
If they smash up that infernal gun, then honor is satisfied and you needn't go.
ES:
Si destruyen el cañón vuestro honor estará a salvo y no tendréis que ir.
EN:
To smash up the only friend you've got.
ES:
Para terminar con el único amigo que le queda.
EN:
You don't close them hard enough. Rip out the phones, smash up the furniture.
ES:
Debió destruir las líneas telefónicas y los muebles.
EN:
- I'll smash up your shop.
ES:
Nadie llega a trescientas. Romperé tu farmacia.
EN:
Now, three other flyers had been forced out including Jimmy Sullivan, who has been reportedly injured in a smash up.
ES:
Los competidores restantes han hecho un aterrizaje forzoso incluyendo a Jimmy Sullivan, quien ha resultado herido.
EN:
And when it's all over, looking back on a perfectly smashing achievement. Or a perfectly smashing smash up.
ES:
Y al final, volviendo la vista atrás contemplar un encumbramiento soberbio o un soberbio derrumbamiento.
EN:
If I smash up, what do you care?
ES:
Si yo me estampo, ¿a ti qué te importa?
EN:
Throw the liquor in the creek, smash up the kegs, get rid of it.
ES:
- El licor al riachuelo. Rompan los barriles. Desháganse de eso.
EN:
We don't want him to smash up the Batmobile.
ES:
No queremos que choque el Batimóvil.
EN:
Either you pay me immediately, or I'll smash up your studio.
ES:
-O pagas o te destrozo el estudio.
EN:
Keith, who's a great sort of joiner-inner... used to smash up his drum kit.
ES:
Keith, quien es genial como carpintero interior... comenzo a romper su bateria.
EN:
Algaroc will smash up a lot more than this place if he gets woken up.
ES:
él podría destruir todo el océano!
EN:
I wanted to smash up the dining-room but it's a lovely dining-room...
ES:
Quise romper todo lo que había en el comedor. Y mi comedor es muy bonito, estoy bien allí.
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