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Old August 05, 2009, 03:40 AM
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¿Puedes dar un ejemplo del uso en una frase?
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Old August 05, 2009, 05:16 AM
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If you say that somebody no es trigo limpio you mean there is something fishy about them, you think they are not honest.
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Hmm well.. Depending on how strong this feeling is.. maybe:

- ' There' s something fishy about him' (seems like a good one to me )
- There' s something not quite right about him
- There' s something off about him
- He' s a charlatan

More towards an uneasy feeling:
- He gives me the creeps (when someone gives you a nasty or uneasy feeling) or ' He creeps me out'
- He makes my skin crawl (similar to creeps)
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/make+skin+crawl


Perhaps the native English speakers can come up with better ones though.
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Great answers. I don't think a native speaker could answer more natively!
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Great answers. I don't think a native speaker could answer more natively!
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hi empanada rica - that's a nice summary of terms, not much to add.

there's one comes to mind that doesn't allude to character so much as
personality: "he's an odd duck.", meaning eccentric or peculiar in his ways.

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I use "rubs me wrong"
Example: There's something about him that rubs me wrong.
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Or "I have a bad feeling about him".
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We are a human thesaurus.
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We are a human thesaurus.
¡¡ Sí !! O un tesoro humano

In fact, in Dutch instead of vocabulary we say 'woordenschat'.

Factually this is derived from the words: 'words' (woorden) & 'schat' (which comes
from the verb 'schatten', to estimate).

However 'schat' also means 'treasure' (and 'darling' too by the way..).
So you could think of the word as ' wordtreasure' = Caja de tesoro de palabras..
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