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HIGH WORDS

Traducere în limba română

high words substantiv pl.

1. cuvinte grele / tari.

2. cuvinte mari / pompoase.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The two professors, their tempers aggravated no doubt by their injuries, had fallen out as to whether our assailants were of the genus pterodactylus or dimorphodon, and high words had ensued.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, for my father was a man of a very violent temper.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The English played well, but the Americans played better, and contested every inch of the ground as strongly as if the spirit of '76 inspired them. Jo and Fred had several skirmishes and once narrowly escaped high words. Jo was through the last wicket and had missed the stroke, which failure ruffled her a good deal. Fred was close behind her and his turn came before hers. He gave a stroke, his ball hit the wicket, and stopped an inch on the wrong side. No one was very near, and running up to examine, he gave it a sly nudge with his toe, which put it just an inch on the right side.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The hot weather made him indolent, and he had shirked his studies, tried Mr. Brooke's patience to the utmost, displeased his grandfather by practicing half the afternoon, frightened the maidservants half out of their wits by mischievously hinting that one of his dogs was going mad, and, after high words with the stableman about some fancied neglect of his horse, he had flung himself into his hammock to fume over the stupidity of the world in general, till the peace of the lovely day quieted him in spite of himself.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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