con segundas: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- With an ulterior motive or hidden intention; not straightforward in purpose or meaning.
- Said or done with insinuation, innuendo, or a secondary, often malicious, implication.
Examples
BetaNo confíes en sus palabras, siempre habla con segundas y quiere algo a cambio.
Don’t trust his words; he always speaks with hidden motives and wants something in return.
Parecía que me felicitaba, pero lo dijo con segundas y en realidad me criticaba.
It seemed like she was congratulating me, but she said it with an ulterior meaning and was actually criticizing me.
Cuando alguien habla con segundas, hay que escuchar entre líneas para entender su intención real.
When someone speaks with hidden motives, you have to read between the lines to understand their real intention.
- As a loaded remark or question that implies something beyond its literal content; carrying a covert accusation or suggestion.
Examples
BetaSu pregunta sobre mi trabajo la hice notar que fue con segundas, como si dudara de mi esfuerzo.
I noticed her question about my job was loaded, as if she doubted my effort.
No me gustan las charlas con segundas porque siempre terminan en discusiones.
I don’t like conversations with hidden accusations because they always end in arguments.
Cuando dijo que estaba 'muy ocupado', lo hizo con segundas para evitar quedar mal conmigo.
When he said he was 'very busy,' he said it with an ulterior meaning to avoid offending me.
Examples:
- ES: Porque no quiero que empieces a utilizarla con segundas intenciones.EN: Just don't start using her for your own ulterior motives.
- ES: Siempre se sabe cuando alguno va con segundas.EN: Can always tell a man's got something on his mind.
- ES: No va con segundas.EN: It does not go with seconds.
- ES: Eso de pedir limosna, ¿lo ha dicho con segundas?EN: That thing about ask for charity was sarcastic?
- ES: Y se debe a que es ruin, va con segundas. Es egocéntrico y pienso que lo hace por algo. Gracias.EN: To you, that is, because you're sneaky and duplicitous and self-serving, and I always think you have a hidden agenda.
- ES: Deja de hablar con segundas.EN: Stop the double-talk, Fleischman.
- ES: No creo que lo haga con segundas.EN: I don't think he means anything by it.
- ES: No lo digo con segundas.EN: No pun intended.
- ES: Sois unos groseros, unos falsos hermanos, porque si fuerais honestos, no me hablaríais con segundas, me diríais enseguida que...EN: You're all lying. You're false brothers, or you'd be honest. You'd speak clearly, not in riddles.
- ES: ¡No va con segundas!EN: No pun intended!
- ES: -Es una pregunta con segundas.EN: No, it's not. I know why you're here.
- ES: Porque no lo dice con segundas.EN: Because she has no agenda here.
- ES: ¿Crees que vengo con segundas para hablarte de algo?EN: You think I have some other agenda that I have to talk to you about?
- ES: Los personajes maduros de los últimos filmes afrontan sus ocasiones perdidas... y sueñan con segundas oportunidades.EN: THe mature characters of the later films confront their missed opportunities and dream of second chances.
- ES: - No iba con segundas.EN: - No, I wasn't.
- ES: Sobre todo un hombre ambicioso con segundas intenciones que quiere vivir lo suficiente para ver a través de ellas.EN: Especially an ambitious man with ulterior motives who wants to live long enough to see them through.
- ES: ¿Es una pregunta con segundas?EN: Is that a rhetorical question?
- ES: No iba con segundas.EN: I didn't mean anything by that, Keechie.
- ES: No creo. ¿No va ese cumplido con segundas?EN: I don't think so. Was that a backhanded compliment?
- ES: Dublin, no quiero más comentarios con segundas... ni deducciones malvadas.EN: Dublin, I don't want any more of those double-meaning remarks... with that vile inference.
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