Translation for "high-and-mighty" to spanish
High-and-mighty
adjective
Translation examples
adjective
But helpless, you high-and-mighty lump of Tanu shit!
¡Pero impotente, especie de altanera boñiga Tanu!
'You weren't so high and mighty in the old days,' said Biedermann.
—No eras tan altanero en los viejos tiempos —dijo Biedermann—;
Those misbegotten, nardy high and mighty shippers never bothered their heads to come back.
Esos bastardos, poderosos y altaneros hombres de la nave nunca se molestaron en volver.
Not François Paré, the civil servant, nor tubby little Fernand Courcel. Still less the high and mighty Victor Lamotte.
Ni François Paré, el funcionario, ni Fernand Courcel, el gordo, ni siquiera el altanero Victor Lamotte necesitaban dinero.
And vowed that one day he would have all those high-and-mighty aristocrats on the hop, needing him more than he needed them.
Y juró que algún día tendría a todos aquellos aristócratas altaneros del Senado a su merced, igual que ellos le tenían a él en aquel momento.
Slightly effeminate and possessing a somewhat high-and-mighty demeanor in his dealings with others, Carson was definitely a yes-man to Wilkins and a no-man to everyone else.
Ligeramente afeminado y mostrando una conducta un tanto altanera en su trato con los demás, Carson era definitivamente un «sí-señor» para Wilkins y un «no-señor» para todos los demás.
Hell, no. Got a house here where I stay in town, bought it cheap from some high-and-mighty snot-nose never worked a day in his life and went bankrupt.
¡Diablos, no! Tengo una casa aquí, donde me alojo cuando permanezco en el pueblo, comprada barata a cierto altanero gandul que no trabajó un solo día en su vida y fue a la quiebra.
‘Did you ask her?’ She put down the iron and looked at me with that high and mighty expression of hers that she always adopts when she’s about to make some caustic remark. ‘I thought that was why you brought Koula round here, to act as your secretary.’
–¿Y no se lo has preguntado? Deposita la plancha sobre la tabla y me fulmina con una de esas miradas altaneras que suelen acompañar sus comentarios mordaces. –Dime, ¿no es por eso por lo que trajiste a Kula a casa? ¿Para que te hiciera de secretaria?
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