Translation for "get the better of" to spanish
Translation examples
verb
“You’ll never get the better of her.
Nunca la podrá vencer.
Then their curiosity would get the better of them.
Después se dejarían vencer por la curiosidad;
They must have planned over the phone how to get the better of Rose.
Debían haber planeado por teléfono el modo de vencer a Rose.
He had marched and fought in more difficult campaigns before without letting exhaustion get the better of him.
Había marchado y combatido en campañas más difíciles sin dejarse vencer por el agotamiento.
To trump is to get the better of an adversary by using a crucial, often hidden resource at the most strategic moment.
Vencer es obtener lo mejor de un adversario usando un recurso crítico y a menudo oculto en el momento más estratégico.
Another maxim." I see that I cannot get the better of him and withdraw into my room as soon as the box of sprats is empty.
Otra máxima. Veo que no puedo vencer su contumacia, espero a que dé cuenta de los sprats y me retiro a mi habitación.
by allowing her morbid curiosity to get the better of her—one never knew with Fonchito—perhaps she had awakened the beast.
dejándose vencer por la morbosa curiosidad —con Fonchito nunca se sabía— había despertado tal vez a la fiera.
Diomedes realized that they were pulling the ship back to shore; his comrades at the oars were failing to get the better of the hundreds of enemies dragging them towards land.
Diomedes se dio cuenta de que la nave empezaba a acercarse otra vez a la orilla y que sus hombres no lograban vencer con los remos la fuerza de centenares de enemigos que la arrastraban hacia la costa.
After his naked-cycling defeat, Beefcake would've liked to get the better of Koen but was excluded as a candidate because he was blacklisted by Omer.
Y Fortachón, después de su derrota de ciclismo desnudo hubiera querido quedar por encima de Koen pero fue excluido como candidato porque estaba en la lista negra de Omer.
You know how much I like to get the better of economists .
Ya sabes que me encanta quedar por encima de los economistas…
I had wanted to stay above that business, to resist taking part in the pathetic game he was playing, and yet when my principles were finally put on the line, I succumbed to temptation and allowed greed to get the better of me.
Esperaba quedar por encima de todo aquello, negarme a participar en el patético juego que se traía entre manos y, sin embargo, cuando mis principios se vieron finalmente puestos a prueba, sucumbí a la tentación y me dejé llevar por la avaricia.
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