Translation for "romper una lanza" to english
Romper una lanza
Translation examples
break a spear
Él iba encorvado, como si, al romper su lanza, Tártaro también hubiera roto algo dentro de él.
His posture was twisted and hunched, as if Tartarus breaking the spear had broken something inside him.
No tiene la certeza de que Zaak vaya a romper una lanza en su defensa si esos jóvenes que controlan la ciudad, apenas adolescentes, leales al caudillo que ha ocupado la propiedad de la familia, se ponen peligrosos.
She cannot be sure that Zaak will take up the cudgel in safeguarding support of her if the city’s adolescent boys loyal to the warlord occupying the family property turn lethal.
Al explicarse provocó en Kenneth una carcajada tan desdeñosa y burlona que Antonia se apresuró a romper una lanza en favor de su prometido y reprochó a su hermano que se mostrara tan insultante, pues para empezar seguro que también él habría hecho lo mismo y para terminar no era asunto suyo.
His explanation was met with so derisive a laugh that Antonia at once took up the cudgels, and told her brother he needn’t be offensive, because for one reason she wouldn’t put it above him to cook accounts, and for another it had nothing to do with him.
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