a pelo

Language: es

1.
SpainLatin Americaneutralcolloquial
- Riding without a saddle; bareback.
2.
SpainLatin Americainformalcolloquial
- Unclothed or naked; literally bare of clothing.
3.
SpainLatin Americaneutral
- Hair by hair; one hair at a time; used figuratively to mean doing something painstakingly or in very small increments (as in the phrase "pelo a pelo").
4.
SpainLatin Americaneutral
- Having the smell or quality of burnt hair (literal descriptive use).
5.
SpainLatin Americacolloquial
- Without protection, covering, or equipment; exposed or unprotected (generalized figurative extension of the literal senses).

Examples:

ES: ¡Hubiera montado a pelo!
EN: He'd have been riding bareback!
ES: Pues que hubiera montado a pelo.
EN: Why, he would've been riding bareback.
ES: Tratado, pelo a pelo.
EN: Stuck on hair by hair.
ES: El mujerío de por aquí usa sombreros abiertos y las jóvenes van a pelo.
EN: Women folks around here wear split bonnets. The young ones goes bareheaded.
ES: ¡Huele a pelo quemado!
EN: Smells like burning hair.
ES: Siempre quise ver a un inglés montar un caballo a pelo.
EN: Well, I always wanted to see an Englishman ride a bucking horse.
ES: El motivo de ello, es que les será más fácil montar a pelo.
EN: The reason it has no saddle is because it will be easier for you to stay on without the saddle.
ES: Después del circo, nada superaba a la amazona que montaba a pelo.
EN: After the circus, you thought... the bareback rider was the most beautiful thing in the world.
ES: "Derribar un becerro, 50 dólares... montar a pelo 25, doma, 20..."
EN: "Calf Roping, $50, Bareback, $25, Bronc Riding.."
ES: El lunes, le arranqué el bigote, pero pelo a pelo.
EN: On Monday, I pulled his mustache one hair after another.
ES: - ¡Vaya, qué bien manejan el lazo! - Sí. Y montando a pelo.
EN: Boy, they sure can handle that fishing pole.
ES: También sé montar a pelo y galopar sujetándome sólo con los muslos.
EN: I can ride bareback at full gallop, gripping only with my thighs.
ES: Era jinete a pelo.
EN: She was a bareback rider.
ES: Yo montaré a Bell a pelo.
EN: I'll ride bareback on Bell.
ES: Aparte del usual manejo del lazo, derribar al novillo y domar caballo a pelo está la exposición de los más preciado del ganado Aberdeen Angus.
EN: Apart from the usual steer roping, bulldogging and bare back riding there's the exhibition of the prized Black Angus cattle.
ES: - Venga, todos a pelo, ¿vale? - Sí.
EN: We'll all go skinny dipping.
ES: En cueros y montando a pelo.
EN: Bare back to bare ass.
ES: Se ha llevado la única silla, tendremos que montar a pelo.
EN: He's got the only saddle... ...we'll have to ride out bareback...
ES: Vale más que no. Si nos vemos, irá montado a pelo.
EN: We'd better not if we did, you won't just go bareback.
ES: Lo empujé, y corrí a pelo a la calle.
EN: I pushed it, and I ran to hair in the street.

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