from bad to worse | de mal en peor |
from day one | desde el primer día |
from hand to mouth | con lo justo |
from head to toe | de pies a cabeza |
from hunger | a causa del hambre |
from rags to riches | de mendigo a millonario |
- Things keep going from bad to worse: first, I los my job, now I lose my house!
- Charlie never liked school. He hated it from day one.
- Liz says she lives from hand to mouth but she spends too much money on clothes.
- Mr. Fitzpatrick is a real gentleman from head to toe. So charming!
- The amount of people dying from hunger every day around the world is alarming.
- My dad was very poor but he went from rags to riches working all his life.
from scratch | desde el principio |
from side to side | de un lado al otro |
from soup to nuts | de principio a fin |
from square one | desde el principio |
from stem to stern | de proa a popa |
from the bottom of one's heart | de todo corazón |
- My computer caught a virus and I had no backup so I had to start my workfrom scratch.
- The flowers swayed from side to side in the light summer breeze. It was lovely.
- Helen was very much involved in the project. She was in it from soup to nuts.
- The police inquiry had to begin from square one after a series of false clues.
- We've searched the yacht from stem to stern but we didn't find any hole.
- I wish you both a very happy marriage, from the bottom of my heart.
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from the cradle to the grave | durante toda la vida |
from the frying pan into the fire | de Guatemala a Guatepeor |
from the get-go/word "go" | desde el principio, desde el "vamos" |
from the sublime to the ridiculous | de un extremo al otro |
from this day forward | de hoy en adelante |
from time to time | de vez en cuando |
from way back | desde hace tiempo |
- My grandfather worked from the cradle to the grave to have everything he wanted.
- We've gone from the frying pan into the fire, no money, no house, no car...
- Alex said he would help me with the assignment from the word "go".
- I didn't like the movie; it went from the sublime to the ridiculous all the time.
- From this day forward, I'll start going to the gym every week.
- I like having a glass of wine during dinner from time to time.
- Pete and Tim are really good friends. They know each other from way back.
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