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"pata palo" in English
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pata palo(also: pata de palo)
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No estoy diciendo que sea algo malo, pero sí creo que equivale a poner una tirita en una pata de palo.
I am not saying that it is a bad thing, but I do think that it still amounts to a sticking plaster on a wooden leg.
Sirve tanto como poner una tirita en una pata de palo.
It is as much use as a plaster on a wooden leg.
Es decir, para terminar con otro refrán holandés, que estas medidas no son más que unas tiritas en una pata de palo.
To end with another saying, the proposed measures amount to no more than putting sticking plaster over the wounds.
Es como poner un esparadrapo a una pata de palo.
This is mere window-dressing.
En este campo, actuar al final de la cadena es como aplicar un emplasto sobre una pata de palo, y solo permite a los gobernantes europeos tener la conciencia tranquila.
Giving support in this area is absolutely no use at all and merely enables the European governing bodies to ease their conscience.
Una nueva edición de la furia reguladora de Bruselas tendría para la lucha contra el trabajo sumergido en los Estados miembros de la Unión Europea el mismo efecto que una tirita en una pata de palo.
A new phase of Brussels-inspired regulating mania would be neither use nor ornament in the fight against illicit work in the Member States of the European Union.
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