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Dayana
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Dear friends,
In Peru there is a slang that we commonly use and it is "de boleto" which means you continue your normal activities, I mean working or studying but you are feeling so sleepy that is difficult. You are sleepy but not because you didn �t sleep well, it is because you stayed up the whole night, could be working, studying or having some drinks with friends... So you are "de boleto" Is there a phrase for that?
Thanks in advance...
Diana |
22 Feb 2011
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edrodmedina
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If it �s from drinking hungover would apply. |
22 Feb 2011
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mk_2010
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Hi,
this definiton reminds me of �worn out �. It means exhausted too -heard it in GB.
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22 Feb 2011
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Zora
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Could you use "de boleto" in a sentence - in Spanish - please??
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22 Feb 2011
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tulpen25
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Drained, wrecked, spent...? |
22 Feb 2011
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almaz
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Possibly �to be/work on automatic �: you �re not completely �out of it � but if you don �t have some zeds soon, you will be.
Mind you, �boleto � is a sort of ticket, isn �t it? If you get your ticket punched, you �re definitely on your way out. If it �s a lottery ticket, well, some you win, some you lose.
PS I �m sure more than a few of us have done it in our (perhaps younger) teaching careers: you come into class, still half steamboats/knackered from the night before, next to nothing prepared, going about like a half-shut knife and you still manage the perfect lesson. In short, you wing it, no problem, no comeback. Like the good improv actor you always knew you were ; ) |
22 Feb 2011
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ldthemagicman
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Dear Diana,
"dead tired; washed out; dead-beat; all in; done in; whacked; fagged out; knackered; bushed; burnt out; dog-tired; ready to drop; zonked out; jiggered; pooped; tuckered out".
Les |
22 Feb 2011
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ldthemagicman
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Dear Diana,
Following on from the suggestions of Almaz:
"wing it; ad-lib; improvise; extemporise; play it by ear; think on your feet; go on automatic pilot; make it up; speak off the cuff; do something off the top of your head; perform without preparation; vamp; say whatever comes into your head; speak off the top of your head; say whatever comes into your mind; act like a zombie; to be in a trance; to be in a daze; to be in a stupor; to sleepwalk; to be comatose; to be lethargic; to be drowsy.
Les |
22 Feb 2011
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almaz
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Les, I do believe we �re getting closer to Diana �s Peruvian idiom in a sort of British way. Never mind the mixed metaphor, feel the width. We might be shot to hell, but we �ll fly by the seat of our pants and make it home, dammit, Carruthers! |
22 Feb 2011
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Zora
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How about a simple "bushed"?
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22 Feb 2011
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