Translation for "stick-bug" to spanish
Stick-bug
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Translation examples
You could even do a stick bug dance to really bring it home.
Incluso podrías hacer una danza de insecto palo, para realmente meterle todo.
Stick bugs look remarkably like twigs.
Los insectos palo parecían ramitas.
You know, I personally couldn't shoot a stick bug."
Yo, personalmente, no podría matar un insecto palo, ¿sabe?
Grasshopper as big as a fucking bird. You know stick bugs, they look like sticks? They got one must be a foot long.
Saltamontes grandes como pájaros. Insectos palo de treinta centímetros de largo.
If that's the same as a praying mantis, you shouldn't shoot a stick bug. It would be bad luck.
—Si es lo mismo que una mantis religiosa, no debería disparar contra un insecto palo. Trae mala suerte.
He walks fast but not as fast as his heart is going, and in the dark he climbs the steps to his dock and he thinks about Shandy's making fun of his old, rickety dock, saying it's long and skinny and bent like a stick bug.
Va aprisa pero no tanto como el latir de su corazón, y en la oscuridad sube las escaleras hasta el embarcadero y piensa en Shandy riéndose de su viejo y desvencijado embarcadero, comentando que es largo y escuchimizado, retorcido como un «insecto palo».
Benton often loses himself in parks and along sidewalks, patiently searching shrubbery for a stick bug or, better yet, a praying mantis, which is extremely rare and a good omen, although he has never experienced a positive change in fortune directly after spotting a praying mantis.
Benton se perdía a menudo en parques y recorría aceras, buscando pacientemente entre los arbustos un insecto palo o, mejor aún, una mantis religiosa, que era muy inusual y suponía un buen augurio, aunque nunca había notado un cambio positivo en su suerte después de haber visto alguna.
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