Translation for "camelo" to english

Camelo

noun

• baloney
• phony
• phoney

Translation examples

baloney noun

Cualquiera que conozca que es Camelo, porque es el unico lugar donde encontrarás Leprachauns es en Irlanda.
Which everyone knows is baloney, because the only place you find Leprechauns is in Ireland.

No quiero camelos, trucos de magia o estupideces psicológicas.
I don't want any baloney, magic tricks or psychological mumbo jumbo.

Papa, su historia es un camelo.
Dad, his story's baloney.

Todo un camelo, por supuesto.
All baloney, of course.

(Esto es un camelo total, por supuesto.
(This is total baloney, of course.

Porque la versión oficial de la historia es un camelo.
Because the official version of history is baloney.

Y ella decía: Anda, no me cameles.
And she would say, Don’t give me that load of baloney. “You two,”

Claro que era un camelo, pero consiguió de ellos un cargo en la Policía Militar.
Sure it was baloney, but it got him a commission in the military police.

Tommie Harkrider se removió, impaciente, en su silla ante la mesa del ministerio fiscal y dijo en voz baja, para que sólo Gary Cleves pudiese oírle: —¡Vaya camelo!
Tommie Harkrider shifted restlessly in his chair at the prosecution's table and said in a voice so low only Gary Cleves could hear, "Oh, baloney.

phony noun

Los periodistas son puro camelo.
Born phonies, all you newspapermen.

—Entonces, su ruptura con Alberta era sólo un camelo para engañar a la vieja.
“Then his split with her was just a phony to fool the old lady?”

—Desvariaba—. Aunque, sí, estoy escandalizada, creo. Pienso que Kalki, el avalar de Visnú, y todo lo demás son puro camelo.
Well, no, I am shocked, I suppose, I mean that Kalki, the avatar of Vishnu and all the rest is phony.

phoney noun

Yo me sentía... Yo me sentía como un camelo.
I just felt, I just felt like a phoney.

—¿Va a decirme que la formación espiritual que administramos aquí es un camelo?
“Are you telling me the spiritual dope we hand out here is phoney?”

—Magnífico, con tal que el entusiasmo no le ciegue y le impida darse cuenta de que es un camelo.
That's swell, as long as he doesn't get too enthusiastic to see through it if it's phoney.

Esas personas no tenían nombre, pero no porque fueran ficticias, porque, en lo relativo a la profesión del mayor, no había nada que oliera a camelo;
These people were not named, but that was not because they had no reality, for there was nothing of the phoney about the Major when it came to his profession;

Está entusiasmado. –Magnífico, con tal que el entusiasmo no le ciegue y le impida darse cuenta de que es un camelo.
He’s all excited over it.” “That’s swell, as long as he doesn’t get too enthusiastic to see through it if it’s phoney.”