rapapolvo
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[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rapapolvo m (plural rapapolvos)
- (colloquial) bollocking, telling-off, talking-to
- 2015 July 8, “Clinton: Los republicanos deberían decirle “basta” a Trump”, in El País[1]:
- Las críticas de Clinton, que ni siquiera llegan a rapapolvo, son lo que probablemente menos preocupen al empresario devenido en político.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “rapapolvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28