Translation for "saltimbanqui" to english

Saltimbanqui

noun

• mountebank

Translation examples

mountebank noun

He comprado una mezcla a un saltimbanqui... tan mortal que, si lo araño tan sólo, he de matarlo.
I bought an unction of a mountebank... so mortal that, if I but scratch him, it will mean death.

En el año de gracia de 1969, la escrupulosamente neutral y objetiva British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) comisionó al viejo fraude y saltimbanqui de Malcolm Muggeridge, para que hiciera una visita al santuario de Calcuta.
In that year of grace 1969, the scrupulously neutral and objective British Broadcasting Corporation committed that old fraud and mountebank, Malcolm Muggeridge, to pay a devotional visit to the Calcutta shrine.

¡Un saltimbanqui! ¡Eso es lo que eres!
A mountebank, that's what you are!

por el otro un saltimbanqui.
on the other, a mountebank.

se le consideraba un buen saltimbanqui y un buen médico;
He was considered a clever mountebank and a good doctor.

—Hay otras maneras de proveerse en París… No te necesito… saltimbanqui.
“There are other alchemists in this city…I don’t need you, you…mountebank.”

Donne era un saltimbanqui que disfrazaba su vacuidad con palabras difíciles.
Donne was a mountebank who wrapped up his lack of meaning in hard words.

Fuera de eso, el éxito fue tan grande que ningún saltimbanqui recordaba nada parecido.
With that exception their success became so great that no mountebank memory could recall its parallel.

Pero suponer que yo soy un saltimbanqui como ella…, ésa fue su primera y fatal locura. Porque yo también soy real.
But to take me for a mountebank like herself—that was her first and fatal folly. For I too am real.

su tablado de saltimbanqui contra un asiento de lord, y ganado la imprecación.
he had played his mountebank platform against his seat in the Lords; for the applause which was his he had gained insult.

Más me valía saltar al mar, pensé, antes que hacer de saltimbanqui ante semejante canalla.
Better I had leaped in the sea, I thought, before I made myself a mountebank for scum like these.

El niño resolvía esos problemas con un instinto del que habría tomado nota un mono y una ciencia que habría admirado un saltimbanqui.
These problems the child solved with an instinct which would have made him the admiration of apes and mountebanks.

Su actitud parecía implicar que Eugenia era algo así como un saltimbanqui de la conversación, adornada de gasas y lentejuelas intelectuales.
Their attitude seemed to imply that she was a kind of conversational mountebank, attired, intellectually, in gauze and spangles.