Translation of "clavarle" to English language:
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| La razón por la que tuvo que clavarle los dedos al suelo con su broche no la sé. Me parece un poco exagerado. | Quite why he had to pin her fingers to the floor with her brooch, I'm not sure. It seems a bit extreme to me. |
| Ahora, cuando yo estaba creciendo, él me contaba historias sobre cómo solía clavarle la bayoneta a la gente, y que sus intestinos se les salían, pero seguían corriendo. | Now, when I was growing up, he used to tell me stories about how he used to bayonet people, and their intestines would fall out, but they would keep running. |
| Quienes desestimaron a Donald Trump calificándolo de bufón no supieron ver que el hombre había leído astutamente el espíritu de época republicano y que sabe exactamente dónde clavarle el cuchillo a los competidores. | Those who wrote off Donald Trump as a buffoon failed to see that he has shrewdly read the Republican zeitgeist, and that he knows precisely where to stick the knife into competitors. |
