Posts made by Ernesto

to stop a wall or a building from falling down by supporting it with building materials such as wood or metal:

to do things that will please someone so that they will do what you want:

If you nail down an arrangement or decision, you decide and agree to the details of it:

to make someone angry:

to send someone to another place:

to not allow yourself to express your anger, worry, or sadness

to look closely at something that you are interested in:

a rude word meaning to masturbate

to write something in a complete or final form using notes that you have made:

If you inform on/against someone, you give the police information, usually secretly, about that person, showing that he or she has done something wrong:

to do something for enjoyment or interest, or without much care and effort, rather than in a serious way or as a job:

to send away someone who is attacking you or who is not wanted, usually forcefully:

to get away from someone or something that will not stop following you:

→  hang around with someone

If something abounds in/with other things, it has a lot of them:

to understand something or to find the answer to something by thinking about it:

to be patient and wait while someone does something:

to put a person in a place that they are not allowed or able to leave:

to refuse to deal with someone or with something such as a question, criticism, or request:

to make a person or an animal so frightened that he, she, or it goes away: