Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

(s/he knew s/he would) catch hell

Spanish translation:

(sabía) "la que le esperaba" o "la que le iba a caer"

Added to glossary by Mariadelpila (X)
May 24, 2009 09:19
15 yrs ago
English term

catch hell

English to Spanish Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
The food was usually hung from tree limbs to keep animals out of it, but sometimes a rope would break, and she knew she'd catch hell if the dogs were eating the smoked ham they had acquired in the last village.

Normalmente la comida colgaba de las ramas de los árboles para mantener a los animales alejados de ella, pero algunas veces una cuerda se rompía y ella sabía que "catch hell"si los perros se estaban comiendo el jamón cocido que habían conseguido en el último pueblo
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May 24, 2009 09:19: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"

May 24, 2009 21:56: Mariadelpila (X) Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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sabía "la que le esperaba" o "la que le iba a caer"

AS in "la bronca que le esperaba/que le iba a caer"
Peer comment(s):

agree Beatriz Ramírez de Haro : Me quedo con "la que le esperaba". Saludos, María del Pilar
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agree Jo-Hanna Goettsche
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(sabía que) se la cargaría

:)

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o "le caería una buena bronca"
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se llevaría un buen rapapolvo / una buena reprimenda

catch hell (about someone or something) and get hell (about someone or something); catch hell (for something)
to be scolded (about someone or something). http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/catch hell

DRAE:rapapolvo.- m. coloq. Reprensión áspera.




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O "le caería un rapapolvo monumental"
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seria castigada

Another possibility.
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se buscaría un gran problema

el término "hell" en inglés se refiere muy a menudo a una situación bien desagradable.
Example sentence:

He had been through hell in the last few weeks.

Había pasado momentos muy difíciles en las últimas semanas.

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