Translation for "chica para todo" to english

Chica para todo

noun

• general
• maid-of-all-work

Translation examples

general noun

En general, los ganaderos contratan a chicos de 10 a 17 años para que cuiden sus rebaños.
Generally aged between 10 and 17, boys are recruited by cattle herders to guard their herds.

ii) En la enseñanza secundaria general, el porcentaje de chicas permanece por debajo del 40%.
(ii) In general secondary education, the percentage of girls remains below 40 per cent;

Era una chica de la generación de los ordenadores.
She was a child of the computer generation.

En general, los chicos canadienses no son rubicundos;
The children of Canada are not, in general, ruddy;

Era una buena chica, con el corazón en la mano.
She was a good girl, a generous girl.

Este chico es un gran general en potencia.
“That boy has the makings of a great general.”

—Porque eres blando, chico —espetó el general—.
'Because you are soft, boy,' snapped the general.

—Una chica, o sea una mujer de aproximadamente su generación, ¿no?
“Girl, meaning a female of your approximate generation?”

Mi papel era más comúnmente el de un chico plañidero.
My role was more generally that of whipping boy.

—Lo que se va a reír mí chico —dijo el general—.
“That boy of mine will laugh,” said the general.

El general le entregó al chico una caja de cuero.
The General gave Arkady a leather box.

maid-of-all-work noun

Está claro que aborrece ser una chica para todo;
It’s obvious that she detests being a maid-of-all-work;

Tras consultarlo con el pastor de la capilla, la enviaron a trabajar como chica para todo con dos solteronas que eran maestras de escuela en Conisborough.
She was sent off again, after consultation with the minister at the Chapel, to be maid of all work to two maiden lady schoolteachers in Conisborough.

Lo toma en sus habitaciones, adonde cada mañana se lo sube en una bandeja de madera la chica para todo de su patrona.
He takes it in his rooms, where it arrives every morning, carried in on a wooden tray by Dora, his landlady’s maid-of-all-work.

La señora de Martin-White puso un anuncio en la prensa y envió solicitudes a agencias, pero solo consiguió una criada para la limpieza y una chica para todo, y nadie para servir la mesa.
She advertised in newspapers, applied to agencies, but she had a single housemaid and a maid-of-all-work and no one to wait at table.

Según la costumbre, las chicas se iban a servir para ganarse el dinero de la dote y después se casaban y, si el marido prosperaba, pronto contrataban a su vez a una criada o, por lo menos, a una chica para todo;
She said it was the custom for young girls in this country to hire themselves out, in order to earn the money for their dowries; and then they would marry, and if their husbands prospered they would soon be hiring their own servants in their turn, at the very least a maid-of-all-work;

Su chica para todo se limitó a asentir cuando le pregunté si uno de los hijos mayores podía acompañarlo a casa más tarde y siguió lavando: era el día de la colada en toda Filadelfia, y la humedad del ambiente se veía agravada por montones de tinas humeantes en el vecindario, todas ellas despidiendo vapores de sosa.
Their maid-of-all-work merely nodded when I asked whether one of the older children would walk home with him later, then went back to her washing; it was laundry day all over Philadelphia, and the humid atmosphere was aggravated by a score of steaming washtubs in the neighborhood, all fuming with the reek of washing soda.