Translation examples
noun
No olvide que las quinielas les permitieron comprar este piso.
‘Don’t forget that it was the football pools that enabled you to buy the flat.’
Robbie por el fútbol, Danny por la lotería y Popeye por las quinielas.
Robbie from football, Danny from the lottery and Popeye from the football pools.
Dice que lo ganó en las quinielas, y que por eso no tuvo que declararlo.
She claims it all came from a win on the football pools which is why she didn't have to declare it."
–Sí -responde sin titubear-. Verá, mi marido hace años que juega a las quinielas.
You see, my husband has played the football pools for years.
Kristiansson estaba siempre sin blanca, porque malgastaba su dinero en las quinielas.
Kristiansson was always broke, which was a result of the fact that he squandered all his money on the football pools.
Si ganara a las quinielas y tuviera mucho dinero, me gustaría hacer una casa como esa.
If I won a football pool and made a lot of money, that’s the kind of house I’d like to build.”
Para colmo de males, sólo había tenido cuatro aciertos en su infalible sistema de quinielas.
To top it all off, he had had a minimal four right on his infallible football pools system.
Era como tener trece aciertos en la quiniela, faltando sólo un partido por jugar, al que le había puesto un doble.
It was like having eleven right on the football pools, with only one game to go, and that was a dead certainty.
Por su parte, a él le gustaba su esposa, particularmente porque le ayudaba a rellenar quinielas, y pocas veces la mencionaba.
For his part, he liked his own wife fine, particularly in regard to this business with the football pools, and he seldom mentioned her.
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