thin the herd | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)tocull, to reduce the size of a group2006, John Vorhaus,Killer Poker Online/2: Advanced Strategies For Crushing The Internet Game,Kensington Publishing,→ISBN,page140:Early on, if we came into a pot we came in for about three times the big blind because we generally wanted tothin the herd. Now we don't have to worry about that so much, for the herd will thin itself. It's smaller to begin with, since three or four players are gone, plus we're starting to get within sniffing distance of the money, so our foes will naturally start to tighten up.2010, Mary Connealy,The Wildflower Bride, Barbour Publishing,→ISBN,page291:“If we have a chance, catch one of them out alone, we'll take it,thin the herda little.” Harv snorted. “Herd? A cripple, a woman, and a coward. No herd to thin there. I'd like to keep that woman alive for a while, though.2018, A. Trevor Thrall, Benjamin H. Friedman,US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case For Restraint, Routledge,→ISBN,page218:Unless China could successfully neutralise Taiwan's ability to 'thin the herd' by taking out its air bases, its fixed and mobile land-based missile launchers (such as RBS-17 coastal-defence missiles mounted on trucks), its missile-armed Apache helicopters and its swarming fast-attack ships, its invasion will be in trouble.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seethin,‎the,‎herd.

Examples:

EN: Give me a hell of a headache, but I could probably thin the herd a little.
ES: Me dará una jaqueca del diablo, pero creo que podré aguantar un poco. Sabia que podía hacerte sonreír.
EN: Hey, well, thin the herd."
ES: Bueno, una menos"
EN: We should thin the herd first.
ES: - Deberíamos tratar con ella primero.
EN: With no natural predators to thin the herd... it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most... and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
ES: Sin depredadores naturales para mermar la manada empezó a premiar a aquellos con mayor capacidad reproductiva y convirtió a los inteligentes en una especie en peligro de extinción.
EN: Cherie is already in the showdown. Now we're just trying to thin the herd.
ES: Cherie ya está en la ronda final, pero trata de reducir la manada.
EN: Should thin the herd a bit. Attention, all employees. This is not a drill.
ES: Debe de reducir un poco la búsqueda.
EN: Even a zoo like Rincon, a triple-overhead swell-- it's gonna thin the herd.
ES: Incluso un zoológico como Rincón, un oleaje tres veces por encima de la cabeza -- aclarará la multitud.
EN: See, first we let the lawyers and the jocks thin the herd and then we go after the weak and the old and the lame.
ES: No, primero que los tigres y los zorros cacen a las fuertes y luego tendremos a la débil, la vieja y la torpe.
EN: Perhaps we should thin the herd.
ES: Tal vez debamos reducir el rebaño.
EN: They'll single them out, divide them up, then thin the herd.
ES: Van a distinguirlos, dividirlos, luego reducen la manada.
EN: We could thin the herd out a little bit.
ES: Pudiéramos adelgazar la manada un poco.
EN: You know, thin the herd.
ES: Ya sabes, reducir el rebaño.
EN: We don't wanna kill everybody just thin the herd a bit.
ES: No queremos matar a todo el mundo. Sólo reducir la manada un poco.
EN: It may become necessary-- to thin the herd.
ES: Puede que se haga necesario... disminuir la gente.
EN: - To thin the herd.
ES: ...disminuir la manada.

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