Translation for "hand-wringing" to spanish
Translation examples
I see.” Deborah thought a bit of hand wringing would do at this point, plus an expression of desperation, which wasn’t at all difficult for her to manufacture.
—Deborah pensó que en aquel momento le convenía retorcerse las manos y adoptar una expresión desesperada, cosa que no le costó mucho—.
This reduced her to confusion, and unleashed an astonishing routine of foot shuffling and deep blushing and hand-wringing and small sharp manic laughs punctuating bursts of staccato speech. “Ha! Ha!
Esto la sumió en confusión y provocó en ella un sorprendente número de agitar los pies y sonrojarse profundamente y retorcerse las manos y soltar agudas risitas maníacas que puntuaban estallidos de palabras entrecortadas. —¡Ja!
No one, Brunetti thought in his more cynical moments, dared to suggest that no further nuclear reactors be built or tests performed - here he silently cursed the French - but all rushed to the endless conferences to engage in collective hand-wringing and the exchange of terrible information.
Brunetti, en sus momentos de cinismo, pensaba que nadie se atrevía a sugerir que dejaran de construirse centrales nucleares -aquí maldecía en silencio a los franceses-, pero todo el mundo se apresuraba a acudir a aquellas conferencias a retorcerse las manos de angustia e intercambiar información horripilante.
We knew that a thorough rebuilding could take up to two years—six months for the permits and the rest for digging, scraping, plastering, chiseling, hand-wringing, and crying—and if for all that time we had to rent, it would break us. I had a new book out chugging along fine but who knew when it might come to a stop, and renovations always cost much more than one expects.
Sabíamos que una reconstrucción completa nos llevaría unos dos años: seis meses para los permisos y el resto para excavar, demoler, rascar, enyesar, cincelar, retorcerse las manos y llorar. Si durante todo ese tiempo teníamos que alquilar un apartamento, nos arruinaríamos.
This thematic debate cannot be an occasion for either international hand-wringing or international back-slapping.
Este debate temático no puede ser una ocasión para dar apretones de manos ni para palmaditas en la espalda.
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