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PINT
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Traducere în limba română
pint substantiv
pintă (măsură de capacitate = 0,568 l.; în S.U.A. = 0,473 l.);
(fig.) to make a pint measure hold a quart a încerca să faci un lucru imposibil.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Then, come in her friend to watch alongside of her bed; and then she know'd as the old boat warn't round that next pint in the bay no more, but was fur off; and know'd where she was, and why; and broke out a-crying on that good young woman's bosom, wheer I hope her baby is a-lying now, a-cheering of her with its pretty eyes!
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)