cielo-2
heaven.
His eyes lift up to heaven, the best of books in his hand.
¡el Cielo nos guarde!
heaven forbid
God forbid
As far as Hernandez could determine, no one dared to approach him with suggestions for needed changes in library policy or procedure or, heaven forbid, in his personal management style.
Disability can affect us all and God forbid you have an accident or something and become disabled ... How would you feel?.
bendición del cielo
gift from God
And in his still beating heart, he knew that his recovery was a miracle: a gift from God, a stroke of luck.
caído del cielo
heaven-sent
God-given
He was heaven sent for me and I'll always be grateful that he helped us the way he did.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
cielo, el [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
heavens, the
Standing in the early morning on the balcony of her apartment, she was smote as she always was by the grandeur of the sky turning to scarlet as the rim of darkness in the east released the sun for its sluggish trek through the heavens.
cielo en la tierra, el
heaven on earth
Eden was supposed to be like heaven on earth, and Adam and Eve and their descendants were meant to live forever.
¡Cielos!
Good heavens!
Good heavens, if American culture isn't about wearing baggy pants, baseball caps and talking like a rube, what is it all about then?.
Cielo Santo!
Good heavens!
Good heavens, if American culture isn't about wearing baggy pants, baseball caps and talking like a rube, what is it all about then?.
estar en el séptimo cielo
be on cloud nine
float on + air
walk on + air
tread on + air
be in seventh heaven
The author hypothesized that schizophrenia patients would show impaired idiom processing for literally plausible idioms (e.g., kick the bucket) but not for literally implausible idioms (e.g., be on cloud nine).
She felt the rush of adrenaline and sense of floating on air as the plane lifted off for a tour over the harbor.
She is 'walking on air' after grabbing the limelight by flaunting her fabulous new figure.
Who is this young woman who goes out stealthily like this, and meets a young man, and comes back feeling as if she had been treading on air?.
The salary was barely enough to get by, but I was in seventh heaven: at long last, I had the opportunity to do scientific research.
írsele a Uno el santo al cielo
lose + track of time
it + go + right/straight out of + Posesivo + mind
eBay is the absolute easiest way to lose track of time and the world going on around you.
I should have answered the letter yesterday, but it went right out of my mind.
llovido del cielo
heaven-sent
God-given
He was heaven sent for me and I'll always be grateful that he helped us the way he did.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
maná caído del cielo
manna from heaven
A brief selection of possible scientific explanations for a number of biblical miracles - Noah's flood, the parting of the Red Sea, the burning bush, the ten plagues, manna from heaven, and the raising of Lazarus - is provided.
poner el grito en el cielo
be (all) up in arms
kick up + a stink
kick up + a fuss
blow + Posesivo + top
make + a row
make + a ruckus
kick up + a row
blow + Posesivo + lid
blow + Posesivo + stack
scream + blue murder
froth at + the mouth
shout + blue murder
be in full cry (over)
foam at + the mouth
hit + the roof
kick up + a storm
hit + the ceiling
go through + the roof
go through + the ceiling
raise + the roof
shout + bloody murder
scream + bloody murder
make + a big deal about
And everyone who reads, writes, sings, does research, or teaches should be up in arms but the real question is why so few people are complaining.
Encouraging an interest in maths among grown-ups is fine and dandy, but kicking up a stink about the lack of maths teachers is far more important.
If the cafe say it's butter and it's marge they could be in trouble if anyone cared to kick up a fuss.
Yoga is better for people who are always blowing their top and who are therefore prone to high blood pressure.
Some people have a neurotic, exaggerated sense of self-importance and will nitpick and make a row over just everything in every shop or restaurant.
At most summer camps, children shriek, laugh and generally make a ruckus.
The environmentalists have now kicked up a row over the cutting of trees along the Palace Road charging that the work was illegal.
Of course her initial reaction was to blow her lid, but she didn't - instead she took the high road and simply just left.
She really blew her stack as she stomped out of the sales manager's office talking to herself.
She hates water for some reason, and whenever we go to put her togs on, she screams blue murder, and it is a 15 minute struggle to get her togs on.
This luxurious hotel was not a likely setting for union leaders to froth at the mouth over government cutbacks.
There are more religously motivated killings in America than what you have in Nigeria and yet nobody is shouting blue murder.
The left, meanwhile, is in full cry over the commission's allegedly draconian cuts in Social Security benefits.
All of Washington is foaming at the mouth over the prospect of more pork-barrel spending.
When she heard that, she hit the roof - and she was still hitting the roof about it almost fifty years after it had happened.
Grams is kicking up a storm at the care home she is currently residing in and is about to have her ass hauled onto the sidewalk if she doesn't quit at it any time soon.
It is by no means certain that Congress will vote soon enough to increase the debt ceiling and some people, for good reason, are hitting the ceiling about that.
Harry was out of the country when the contract was signed, and he went through the roof when he found out about it.
I finally told him the night before I left, and he went through the ceiling, just as I expected him to.
I understand he raised the roof when he read the report.
I can picture Mr. Mukhtar in the stands on a cold winter's afternoon, beer in hand, wearing his scarf, shouting bloody murder.
Within ten minutes, the child suddenly woke up out of her semi-comatose state, stood up in the crib and started screaming bloody murder.
He's the type of person who gets frustrated and makes a big deal about taking the wrong exit on the freeway or has a short fuse when something doesn't get done exactly the way he wants it.
¡Santo Cielo!
Good heavens!
Good heavens, if American culture isn't about wearing baggy pants, baseball caps and talking like a rube, what is it all about then?.
sentirse en el séptimo cielo
feel like + a million dollars
feel like + a million bucks
Last night I slept like a baby and feel like a million dollars today!.
You'll accomplish nothing but you'll feel like a million bucks!!.
cielo-2
heaven.
His eyes lift up to heaven, the best of books in his hand.
¡el Cielo nos guarde!
heaven forbid
God forbid
As far as Hernandez could determine, no one dared to approach him with suggestions for needed changes in library policy or procedure or, heaven forbid, in his personal management style.
Disability can affect us all and God forbid you have an accident or something and become disabled ... How would you feel?.
bendición del cielo
gift from God
And in his still beating heart, he knew that his recovery was a miracle: a gift from God, a stroke of luck.
caído del cielo
heaven-sent
God-given
He was heaven sent for me and I'll always be grateful that he helped us the way he did.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
cielo, el [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
heavens, the
Standing in the early morning on the balcony of her apartment, she was smote as she always was by the grandeur of the sky turning to scarlet as the rim of darkness in the east released the sun for its sluggish trek through the heavens.
cielo en la tierra, el
heaven on earth
Eden was supposed to be like heaven on earth, and Adam and Eve and their descendants were meant to live forever.
¡Cielos!
Good heavens!
Good heavens, if American culture isn't about wearing baggy pants, baseball caps and talking like a rube, what is it all about then?.
Cielo Santo!
Good heavens!
Good heavens, if American culture isn't about wearing baggy pants, baseball caps and talking like a rube, what is it all about then?.
estar en el séptimo cielo
be on cloud nine
float on + air
walk on + air
tread on + air
be in seventh heaven
The author hypothesized that schizophrenia patients would show impaired idiom processing for literally plausible idioms (e.g., kick the bucket) but not for literally implausible idioms (e.g., be on cloud nine).
She felt the rush of adrenaline and sense of floating on air as the plane lifted off for a tour over the harbor.
She is 'walking on air' after grabbing the limelight by flaunting her fabulous new figure.
Who is this young woman who goes out stealthily like this, and meets a young man, and comes back feeling as if she had been treading on air?.
The salary was barely enough to get by, but I was in seventh heaven: at long last, I had the opportunity to do scientific research.
írsele a Uno el santo al cielo
lose + track of time
it + go + right/straight out of + Posesivo + mind
eBay is the absolute easiest way to lose track of time and the world going on around you.
I should have answered the letter yesterday, but it went right out of my mind.
llovido del cielo
heaven-sent
God-given
He was heaven sent for me and I'll always be grateful that he helped us the way he did.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
maná caído del cielo
manna from heaven
A brief selection of possible scientific explanations for a number of biblical miracles - Noah's flood, the parting of the Red Sea, the burning bush, the ten plagues, manna from heaven, and the raising of Lazarus - is provided.
poner el grito en el cielo
be (all) up in arms
kick up + a stink
kick up + a fuss
blow + Posesivo + top
make + a row
make + a ruckus
kick up + a row
blow + Posesivo + lid
blow + Posesivo + stack
scream + blue murder
froth at + the mouth
shout + blue murder
be in full cry (over)
foam at + the mouth
hit + the roof
kick up + a storm
hit + the ceiling
go through + the roof
go through + the ceiling
raise + the roof
shout + bloody murder
scream + bloody murder
make + a big deal about
And everyone who reads, writes, sings, does research, or teaches should be up in arms but the real question is why so few people are complaining.
Encouraging an interest in maths among grown-ups is fine and dandy, but kicking up a stink about the lack of maths teachers is far more important.
If the cafe say it's butter and it's marge they could be in trouble if anyone cared to kick up a fuss.
Yoga is better for people who are always blowing their top and who are therefore prone to high blood pressure.
Some people have a neurotic, exaggerated sense of self-importance and will nitpick and make a row over just everything in every shop or restaurant.
At most summer camps, children shriek, laugh and generally make a ruckus.
The environmentalists have now kicked up a row over the cutting of trees along the Palace Road charging that the work was illegal.
Of course her initial reaction was to blow her lid, but she didn't - instead she took the high road and simply just left.
She really blew her stack as she stomped out of the sales manager's office talking to herself.
She hates water for some reason, and whenever we go to put her togs on, she screams blue murder, and it is a 15 minute struggle to get her togs on.
This luxurious hotel was not a likely setting for union leaders to froth at the mouth over government cutbacks.
There are more religously motivated killings in America than what you have in Nigeria and yet nobody is shouting blue murder.
The left, meanwhile, is in full cry over the commission's allegedly draconian cuts in Social Security benefits.
All of Washington is foaming at the mouth over the prospect of more pork-barrel spending.
When she heard that, she hit the roof - and she was still hitting the roof about it almost fifty years after it had happened.
Grams is kicking up a storm at the care home she is currently residing in and is about to have her ass hauled onto the sidewalk if she doesn't quit at it any time soon.
It is by no means certain that Congress will vote soon enough to increase the debt ceiling and some people, for good reason, are hitting the ceiling about that.
Harry was out of the country when the contract was signed, and he went through the roof when he found out about it.
I finally told him the night before I left, and he went through the ceiling, just as I expected him to.
I understand he raised the roof when he read the report.
I can picture Mr. Mukhtar in the stands on a cold winter's afternoon, beer in hand, wearing his scarf, shouting bloody murder.
Within ten minutes, the child suddenly woke up out of her semi-comatose state, stood up in the crib and started screaming bloody murder.
He's the type of person who gets frustrated and makes a big deal about taking the wrong exit on the freeway or has a short fuse when something doesn't get done exactly the way he wants it.
¡Santo Cielo!
Good heavens!
Good heavens, if American culture isn't about wearing baggy pants, baseball caps and talking like a rube, what is it all about then?.
sentirse en el séptimo cielo
feel like + a million dollars
feel like + a million bucks
Last night I slept like a baby and feel like a million dollars today!.
You'll accomplish nothing but you'll feel like a million bucks!!.
