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Old November 03, 2008, 04:28 AM
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Ejercer de espoleta: "To work as a trigger" "To work as a bomb's fuse"

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espoleta(Etim. disc.).
1. f. Aparato que se coloca en la boquilla o en el culote de las bombas, granadas o torpedos, y sirve para dar fuego a su carga.

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Pero los cambios introducidos por el nuevo patrón de EMI, Guy Hands, quien el año pasado pagó más de 5.000 millones de euros para integrarlo en su conglomerado Terra Firma, han acabado por ejercer de espoleta.
The changes acted as a trigger and the problem exploded.

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Never I have heard the sentence Ejerciciar de espoleta, in really I don't that meaning it.
I have never heard of the sentence "Ejerciciar de espoleta." I don't know the meaning of it.

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Una persona causa que otros se animen a hacer algo / anima a otros a hacer algo.
Una cosa trae consigo otra cosa.

I can think of 'hacer de detonador'
Or just 'detonar'

Dunno, gatillos y espoletas are too technical for everyday usage
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I'm sure that's what it means : to act as a detonator
or being a catalyst. The phrase can be used either to covey
a good or bad thing.
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I continue without understand the mean of Espoleta or the another thing, please someone could to be lovely of explain me, What does espoleta mean?

Because I seem a sightless without know the mean of the phrase Espoleta.
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Espoleta es el pestillo pequeñito que esta por ejemplo, colgando de la parte superior de una granada. Si tocas la espoleta, la bomba estallará.
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