Translation for "pisar los frenos" to english

Pisar los frenos

• step on the brakes
• stepping on the brakes

Translation examples

step on the brakes

Volví a pisar el freno.
I stepped on the brake again.

Pisar el freno era impensable.
Stepping on the brake was out of the question.

Normalmente, no hubiera recogido a un desconocido, pero en la fugaz imagen que pudo captar al pasar había algo que la obligó a pisar el freno y detenerse.
Ordinarily, she would have heeded the injunction against picking up a hitchhiker, but even in the glimpse she had driving past, there was something about the young man that made her step on the brake and roll to a stop.

—Detente para que compremos akara y pescado frito —le dijo Kainene al chófer, e incluso que éste pisara el freno puso aún más nervioso a Richard.
"Stop so that we can buy akara and fried fish," Kainene said to the driver, and even the driver's stepping on the brake made Richard nervous.

Cruzó la Gessner Allee sin prestar atención al tráfico y se golpeó con la parte delantera de un taxi cuyo barbudo conductor tocó el claxon y le maldijo antes de pisar el freno.
Now he crossed the Gessner Allee, scarcely looking at the traffic, hurtling in front of a taxicab whose bearded driver honked and cursed at him before stepping on the brakes.