Translation for "botched job" to spanish
Botched job
noun
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noun
It was a botched job for a contract killing.
Para un asesino a sueldo, fue una chapuza.
None of them would have dared do a botched job.
Nadie se hubiera atrevido a hacer una chapuza;
‘After a botched job?’ Clearly he knew the family firm.
—¿Tras hacer una chapuza? Estaba claro que conocía bien la empresa familiar.
If a doctor had gotten a look at that botched job, he’d have been hopping mad.
Si un médico le hubiese echado un vistazo a aquella chapuza lo más probable es que hubiese pegado unos cuantos alaridos indignados.
its thesis is that, contrary to what appearances seem to suggest, the 23 February coup was not an improvised and botched job by an imperfect combination of hard-core Francoist military officers and monarchist military officers with political ambitions, but rather ‘a designer coup’, an operation planned down to the last detail by CESID – by Major Cortina but also by Lieutenant Colonel Calderón, his immediate superior and at the time the strong man of the intelligence services – whose purpose was not to destroy democracy but to trim it or change its direction, getting the premiership away from Adolfo Suárez and putting a military man in his place at the head of a government of salvation made up of representatives of all the political parties;
su tesis es que, contra lo que parece a simple vista, el golpe del 23 de febrero no fue una chapuza improvisada por una conjunción imperfecta de militares rocosamente franquistas y militares monárquicos con ambiciones políticas, sino «un golpe de autor», una operación diseñada hasta el último detalle por el CESID – por el comandante Cortina pero también por el teniente coronel Calderón, superior inmediato de aquél y por entonces hombre fuerte de los servicios de inteligencia –, cuya finalidad no consistía en destruir la democracia sino en recortarla o cambiar su rumbo, apartando a Adolfo Suárez de la presidencia y colocando en su lugar a un militar al frente de un gobierno de salvación integrado por representantes de todos los partidos políticos;
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