Translation for "a tener un ojo para" to english

A tener un ojo para

• to have an eye for

Translation examples

to have an eye for

—El capitán parecía tener buen ojo para la ropa elegante, señor.
The captain seemed to have an eye for fine clothes, sir.

–Pero Moody podría tener su ojo sobre ustedes -apuntó Harry.
“But Moody could have his eye on you,” Harry pointed out.

—No me di cuenta de entrada y es raro, puesto que suelo tener buen ojo para esas cosas.
“I didn’t notice it at first. It’s rare, because usually I have an eye for these things.”

Si no hubiera visto lo que vi, ¿cómo iba a saber yo que un tufaan podía tener un ojo? DOS
If I had not seen what I saw, how would I ever have imagined that a tufaan could have an eye? Two

A aquellas alturas ya debía lucir diamantes y pieles y tener el ojo echado a alguna casita de los suburbios residenciales de St.
By now she ought to be wearing diamonds and furs and have her eye on a little suburban house in St.

Yo solía preguntarme, por aquel entonces, cómo sería tener un ojo en lugar de dos, y experimentaba tapándome un ojo con la mano.
I used to wonder back then what it was like to have one eye instead of two, and experiment by covering one eye with a hand.

Por encima de cualquier otra cosa, un viajero tendría que tener buen ojo para los detalles naturales, pensaba yo, porque eso es lo que ve casi constantemente.
Above all things, a traveller should have an eye for natural detail, I thought, since that is what he sees most of the time.

Pero al llegar aquí, la tercera hermana, cuyo nombre era Quebrantahuesos, empezó a quejarse y dijo que era a ella a quien le tocaba tener el ojo, y que Pesadilla y Espanto siempre lo querían solo para ellas.
But here the third sister, whose name was Shakejoint, began to complain, and said that it was her turn to have the eye, and that Scarecrow and Nightmare wanted to keep it all to themselves.

Al otro extremo del sofá, tumbado sobre su espalda y con una lata de cerveza equilibrada sobre el estómago, se hallaba un joven que parecía tener un ojo incapaz de abrirse tanto como su compañero.
At the other end of the sofa, slumped on his spine with a can of beer balanced precariously on his stomach, sat a young man who seemed to have one eye that was incapable of opening as wide as its mate.