tirar la casa por la ventana - What is the English translation? English translators help English translators with the translation of tirar la casa por la ventana

Conges terminology question

252 months ago

Language pair:	Spanish > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	tirar la casa por la ventana
Context:	hacer una fiesta y gastar much
Keywords:	-

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251 months ago

wrote:

to roll out the red carpet

My references:

source: WordReference
Spanish > English: casa

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252 months ago

wrote:

to push the boat out

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252 months ago

wrote:

to push the boat out

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252 months ago

wrote:

to push the boat out

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252 months ago

wrote:

to push the boat out

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252 months ago

wrote:

to push the boat out

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252 months ago

Prabir Mudaliar wrote:

to throw the baby with the bath water

My comment:

Obviously an idiomatic phrase (literally: "throw the house for the window"), requiring a suitable idiom in translation.
An alternative could be : Penny wise pound foolish

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252 months ago

Prabir Mudaliar wrote:

"blow/spend it all" or "go all out"

My comment:

Estas dos opciones son muy comunes y dan la misma idea. A lo mejor querrá variar estas expresiones en función del contexto, para que quede perfecta la frase.

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252 months ago

Prabir Mudaliar wrote:

to break the bank

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252 months ago

Prabir Mudaliar wrote:

to spare no expense...

My comment:

En realidad, solamente quiero compartir otras opciones que encontré. Algunas ya mencionadas y otras que también en ocasiones se escuchan.

echar la casa por la ventana / tirar la casa por la ventana, [FIG] to spare no expense, push the boat out.

tirar la casa por la ventana, to roll out the red carpet - Source: Diccionario ...

Tirar la casa por la ventana (to throw money down the drain): Festejar
de una manera desmedida, gastar con esplendidez.

My references:

Diccionario Ingles-Español WordReference.com
www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=casa - 10k

crawdads.mis.udel.edu/~maria/FLL/results.html

www.arcom.net/belca/del_dicho/t.htm - 14k -

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252 months ago

Prabir Mudaliar wrote:

to throw money out the window

My comment:

These sayings can be hard to translate, and some of my colleagues' suggestions are also good, but this is what came to mind when I saw the question.

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252 months ago

Hugo Caceres wrote:

to throw the house by out of the windows

My comment:

Esta es la traduccion literal, que ademas se encuentra en: http://www.angelfire.com/ego/pdf/ng/argentina/arsp_slang_dict.html
pero buscando en internet encontré una gran variedad de expresiones significando lo mismo.
1) pulls out all the stops.: http://www.proz.com/?sp=h&id=60302#answ_144413
2) Go to town: http://www.ultralingua.net/index.html?action=define&sub=1&searchtype=stemmed&text=tirar+la+casa+por+la+ventana&service=spanish2english

My references:

En el mismo sentido de la traduccion literal:
http://www.serv-inf.deusto.es/abaitua/_outside/ikasle/hiztek_03/ion_errasti.htm

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252 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de wrote:

that cost him an arm and a leg.

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252 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de wrote:

...or to spend a fortune for a party

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252 months ago