widow-maker | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Something which or someone who takes a person's life, particularly men; alethalhazardthat affects mostly men or is specific to a primarily male trade.c.1596(date written),William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward]Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene ii]:O, it grieves my soul, / That I must draw this metal from my side / To be awidow-maker!1906,Rudyard Kipling,Harp Song of the Dane Women:What is a woman that you forsake her, / And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, / To go with the old greyWidow-maker?1973,Peter F. Drucker,Management: tasks, responsibilities, practices, published1999, page316:Finally, jobs that are 'widow-makers'should be rethought and restructured. In the heyday of the great sailing ships, around 1850, just before the coming of steam, every shipping company had awidow-makeron its hands once in a while. ... One typical 'widow-maker'has been the job of international vice-president in the large American company.; (forestry)Thedetachedorbrokenlimbof atree, ahazardto those walking underneath.Synonym:fool killer; (medicine,informal)Anocclusionof theleftcoronary arteryor itsanteriorinterventricularbranch; which is likely to cause afatalheart attack.; ; (military,slang)TheLockheed F-104 Starfighter.

Examples:

EN: The widow-maker.
ES: "El hacedor de viudas."
EN: This is known as the widow-maker, girls.
ES: A esto se le conoce como la fábrica de viudas.
EN: We call that profession "the widow-maker!"
ES: A esa profesión la llamamos "la que causa viudas".
EN: I call it the widow-maker.
ES: Yo la llamo la "hacedora de viudas".
EN: - It's a widow-maker. - See?
ES: - Es un fabricante de viudas.
EN: "Verbally attacked him and accused him of being a widow-maker."
ES: "lo atacó verbalmente y lo acusó de hacedor de viudas"
EN: Called you the widow-maker.
ES: Te llamaban "hacedor de viudas".
EN: If his men thought Davis was a widow-maker, you can bet Janklow did, too.
ES: Sí sus hombres pensaron que Davis era un enviudador, puedes jurar que Janklow también.
EN: We call that the widow-maker.
ES: La llamamos "el hace viudas".
EN: The kind we call a widow-maker.
ES: Lo que llamamos un fabricante de viudas.
EN: Kelly... they call that kind of blockage a "widow-maker."
ES: Kelly... Ellos llaman ese tipo de bloqueo una "viuda de decisiones."
EN: The doctor said there was a 98% blockage in the artery they call the widow-maker.
ES: El médico dijo que tenías un bloqueo del 98%, llamado "creador de viudas".
EN: You know, he had a blockage they call the "widow-maker."
ES: Tuvo algo que llaman "el creador de viudas".
EN: Let's call it the widow-maker!
ES: - ¡Llamémoslo el hacedor de viudas!
EN: Why do you think they call it the widow-maker?
ES: ¿Por qué crees que lo llaman el hacedor de viudas?

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