Translation examples
‘We’re just saying that it doesn’t do the child any good to be mollycoddled.
Solo decimos que los mimos no le hacen ningún bien al niño.
For the first time in his life he was not being mollycoddled by his mother or so patently hated by his father.
Por primera vez en la vida, su madre no lo abrumaba con sus mimos y su padre no lo odiaba ostentosamente.
He had been touched by what she had said about his being as good as a son, but he was also impatient with her mollycoddling.
Había sido tocado por lo que ella había dicho de ser tan bueno como un hijo, pero estaba algo impaciente con sus mimos.
She worried that she had spoiled him, that her mollycoddling was somehow responsible for lowering his immune system.
Le preocupaba haberle consentido en exceso, que sus mimos fueran de algún modo responsables de haber debilitado su sistema inmunológico.
He had informed the political echelon that if he were allowed to take his gloves off, if his boys were allowed to stop pussyfooting and namby-pambying and mollycoddling and pitter-pattering around, if they were allowed to crack down on the miscreants by whatever means necessary, then he could clean up this mess, no problem, he could crush the insurgency’s testicles in his fist until it wept blood through the corners of its eyes.
Había informado al mando político de que si se le permitía quitarse los guantes, si se permitiera a sus muchachos dejar de marear la perdiz y andarse con remilgos y hacer mimos y repiquetear, si se les permitía tomar medidas enérgicas contra aquellos bellacos por los medios que fueran necesarios, podría limpiar aquel desaguisado, no había problema, aplastaría con el puño los testículos de los insurgentes hasta que lloraran sangre por el rabillo del ojo.
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