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"colador" in English
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"colador" in English
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colador(also: escurridor)
Y la realidad es que las cuentas siguen siendo tan impermeables como un colador.
The reality is that that the accounts will still be about as watertight as a colander.
Los diputados a esta Cámara deberían sentirse en deuda con los contribuyentes de Europa, pues es su dinero lo que se está escurriendo por los agujeros del colador.
The Members of this institution should feel a strong obligation to the taxpayers of Europe, for it is their money that is pouring through the holes of the colander.
Cuando se preparan los espaguetis que en Italia son un plato nacional muy rico, se usa un colador, o sea, un recipiente lleno de agujeros que sirve para colar el agua.
When we cook spaghetti, which is a delicious Italian national dish, we use a colander, a container full of holes which drains the water off the spaghetti.
El gran "colador» europeo se está haciendo realidad.
The great European 'sieve' is becoming more and more of a reality.
¿Queremos realmente dar la imagen de una Europa colador?
Do we really want the sieve to be the image of Europe?
Pasar por el colador para eliminar residuos y mantener caliente.
Sieve to remove lumps and keep warm.
CONTEXT EXAMPLES
Context examples for "colador" in English(!) These sentences come from external sources & may not be accurate. Therefore, we are not responsible for their content.
tiene más agujeros que un colador
it's riddled with holes
lo dejaron como un colador
they riddled him with bullets
Señor Presidente, quien vuela regularmente sabe que el control del cumplimiento de las reglas para la venta libre de impuestos no existe o en cualquier caso tiene más agujeros que un colador.
Mr President, those of us who fly regularly know that the control on compliance with the regulations in respect of duty-free sales is absent, or at least it is full of loopholes.
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