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Old January 27, 2010, 06:54 AM
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Panda de barrandas
¿Qué significa panda de barrandas? ¿Algo falso y deshonesto? A bunch of
crooks?

Tambien la palabra barranda me confunde. Me parece que su significado
cambia entre paises. ¿Se puede usarlo en lugur de pasamano?
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Old January 27, 2010, 07:24 AM
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I've heard "anda de parranda" and "barandilla" for "pasamanos" but not "panda de barrandas". ¿Context?
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I agree with Ambarina. I've never heard it Are you sure that it's "barranda"?
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Old January 27, 2010, 10:27 AM
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Si, lo encontré en un comentario de un lector después de un artículo que se trata de una beca que la UE está otorgando a la industria de cine español. El lector puso un comentario negativo escribiendo que la comisión es una panda de barrandas. (a bunch of crooks?-like una pandilla de pandilleros )
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Si, lo encontré en un comentario de un lector después de un artículo que se trata de una beca que la UE está otorgando a la industria de cine español. El lector puso un comentario negativo escribiendo que la comisión es una panda de barrandas. (a bunch of crooks?-like una pandilla de pandilleros )
Never heard of it either.

bunch of crooks= pandilla/banda de ladrones not pandilleros
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Old January 27, 2010, 10:48 AM
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Here a "panda" is a group of people, with bad intentions or not.

The RAE says that "baranda" is a pejorative term. But "barranda"...
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De panda lo único que sabía era del oso panda.

Pando que está pandeado

lo demás es nuevo para mí.

Baranda es barandilla y como un argentino amigo mio dice "traer mal olor" o "haber mal olor"

Lo demás totalmente nuevo para mí.
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I think the word is "baranda", not "barranda"...

According to the RAE:
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Baranda: m. despect. vulg. U. para referirse, mediante deixis, a una persona.
Un grupo de tipos despreciables.
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It's only a guess
Here, "irse de parranda" it's to go dinking all the night
so banda de parranda ¿barranda" it'¡s a bunch of party-likers??
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It's only a guess
Here, "irse de parranda" it's to go dinking all the night
so banda de parranda ¿barranda" it'¡s a bunch of party-likers??
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Me parece que Angela lo tiene correcto con baranda. Ya sé que el dicho
panda de barandas no es muy común,
pero en inglés significa a bunch of unsavory people.
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¿Panda significa qué?

El diccionario dice "bulging" como un adjetivo

¿"A bunch" como "tacones"?
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panda: a bunch of people
panda: a chinese bear (Ailuropoda melanoleuca,Ailurus fulgens)
and much more....

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