up and down

arriba y abajo

Con movimientos repetidos hacia una posición más alta y luego más baja.

En inglés sencillo: Moving repeatedly toward a higher position and then a lower one.

• The ball bounced up and down.
• She moved her head up and down to say yes.
• The boat was bobbing up and down on the waves.

Expresiones frecuentes: jump up and down, bob up and down, move up and down

de un lado a otro

Recorriendo repetidamente el mismo camino en una dirección y luego en la contraria.

En inglés sencillo: Moving repeatedly in one direction and then the opposite direction along the same route.

• He walked up and down the hall.
• She paced up and down while waiting for the call.
• Why are you walking up and down outside my window?

Cómo se usa: up and down something (He paced up and down the corridor.)

Sinónimos: back and forth, to and fro

Expresiones frecuentes: pace up and down, walk up and down

rotundamente, con insistencia

Con gran seguridad o firmeza, especialmente al afirmar que algo es verdad.

En inglés sencillo: With great certainty or determination, especially when saying that something is true.

• He swore up and down that he was innocent.
• She insisted up and down that the story was true.
• They had sworn up and down that they would pay us.

Cómo se usa: swear up and down that… (She swore up and down that she had locked the door.)

Sinónimos: emphatically, insistently

Expresiones frecuentes: swear up and down, insist up and down

por todo, a lo largo de

En muchos lugares distintos de una zona.

En inglés sencillo: In many different places within an area.

• Shops up and down the country closed early.
• They visited fishing villages up and down the coast.
• Schools up and down the region joined the project.

Cómo se usa: up and down something (Similar festivals take place up and down the country.)

Sinónimos: throughout, all over

Expresiones frecuentes: up and down Britain, up and down England

vertical

El cable del ancla está tenso y casi vertical, con el ancla justo debajo del barco.

En inglés sencillo: An anchor cable is tight and nearly vertical, with the anchor directly below the ship.

• The anchor cable is up and down.
• The crew reported that the chain was up and down.
• Keep the vessel steady while the cable is up and down.

Sinónimos: vertical, perpendicular

Antónimos: horizontal

Expresiones frecuentes: cable up and down, chain up and down

absoluto, auténtico

Destaca que alguien tiene por completo y de forma evidente la cualidad mencionada.

En inglés sencillo: Completely and clearly having the quality described.

• He was an up and down honest man.
• She described him as up and down sincere.
• The village trusted that up and down honest fellow.

Sinónimos: absolute, downright, thoroughgoing

Expresiones frecuentes: up and down honest, up and down sincere

de dos pisos

Se dice de un edificio con dos plantas, una encima de la otra.

En inglés sencillo: A building with two floors, one above the other.

• They lived in an up and down house.
• The old up and down cottage had a narrow staircase.
• Was their first home an up and down building?

Sinónimos: two-story, two-storey

Antónimos: single-story

Expresiones frecuentes: up and down house, up and down cottage