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huevo en flor
Feb 16, 2018 02:17
6 yrs ago
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Spanish term

Ponte guapo

Spanish to English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Hola, estoy traduciendo una invitación de boda que comienza con esta expresión: ¡Ponte guapo, nos vamos de boda!
No estoy muy segura de que expresión usar, ¿podrían darme ideas?
¡Gracias!
Proposed translations (English)
3 +6 put on your glad rags
5 +1 Get Pretty/Handsome
4 +2 Time to step out in your best. We’re having a wedding!
4 Smarten up
3 best bib and tucker
2 get gussied up
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Discussion

Tomasso Feb 21, 2018:
Western USA Put on your dancing shoes, get spruced up is Western USA farmer talk
AllegroTrans Feb 21, 2018:
Asker It would be helpful to tell us which "flavour" of English you are translating into. US? UK? Oz? etc.
Tomasso Feb 16, 2018:
Put on your Dancing Shoes Niveles de traduccion, literal, figurativa o emocional. Pucker up, Put on your best smile, Gets spruced up, Look sharp, Get into your Get Up,

Proposed translations

+6
1 hr
Selected

put on your glad rags

Una de las formas de interpretarlo
Peer comment(s):
agree Muriel Vasconcellos : Nice!
31 mins
Gracias Muriel, buena noche
agree neilmac : Classic, works for all "genders"...
5 hrs
agree Ashlie
5 hrs
agree Noni Gilbert Riley
5 hrs
agree Susan Andrew
6 hrs
agree Yvonne Gallagher
9 hrs
disagree Susan Judges : I'm sorry, who really ever says this? When we go out, my husband says to me, "Ponte guapa!" which to me means put your makeup on, get dressed up, get prettied up
12 hrs
disagree Barbara Cochran, MFA : Not at all appropriate for a wedding invitation., and doesn't mention anything about hair.
14 hrs
agree Charles Davis
1 day 14 hrs
agree AllegroTrans : I assume the 2 "disagrees" come from a part of the world where this phrase is not current; we really need to know where the translated text is aimed at for an expression like this
4 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+1
1 hr

Get Pretty/Handsome

Its a way of saying get dressed up for an event
Peer comment(s):
agree Susan Judges
1 hr
neutral Robert Forstag : This does not seem to be a particularly “engaging” way of expressing the Spanish, let alone justify such a high CL.
4 hrs
neutral Charles Davis : This strikes me as quite unnatural. And are you going to put both "pretty" and "handsome"?
1 day 14 hrs
neutral Yvonne Gallagher : Really? not idiomatic at all
1 day 15 hrs
neutral AllegroTrans : Not idiomatic
4 days
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+2
5 hrs
Spanish term (edited): ¡Ponte guapo, nos vamos de boda!

Time to step out in your best. We’re having a wedding!

“Step out in your best” is used for men and women, and in reference to both clothes and shoes. It would seem to fit here.

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Or, perhaps better:

“Get ready to step out in your best. We’re having a wedding!
Peer comment(s):
agree Charles Davis
1 day 11 hrs
Thank you, Charles!
agree Michele Fauble
3 days 10 hrs
Thank you, Michele.
neutral Barbara Cochran, MFA : What about the hair, which is part of the overall appearance. Don't think you can be "guapo" if you hair's not done up nice.
4 days
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9 hrs

Smarten up

Get dressed nicely and make yourself pretty
Example sentence:

Smarten up, we've got a wedding to attend

Peer comment(s):
disagree Barbara Cochran, MFA : This refers more to intellectual capabilities rather than appearance. "Look smart" would have been a more accurate expression for a US audience.
7 hrs
agree Robert Forstag : Irrespective of the merits of this suggestion, ““smarten up” does indeed - in UK English - have the meaning of “dress and groom yourself with special care.” . The “disagree” and comment above are, in my view, out of line.
1 day 4 hrs
neutral Yvonne Gallagher : disagree is unwarranted but the expression should be reflexive to have this meaning "smarten YOURSELF up/get yourself smartened up..."
1 day 7 hrs
neutral AllegroTrans : sounds a tad too much like a rebuke to someone who is scruffy
4 days
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57 mins

get gussied up

My stab at it.

And dress to the nines, as in dress in fancy/elegant cloths, and make sure you hair's fixed up nice.

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"Time to get all gussied up."
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4 days

best bib and tucker

dated expression maybe but I'm sure it's still in use somewhere on the planet

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Meaning of “your best bib and tucker” in the English Dictionary

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"your best bib and tucker" in English
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your best bib and tucker mainly UK old-fashioned
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your best clothes that you wear on special occasions


Home British & World English one's best bib and tucker
Definition of one's best bib and tucker in English:

one's best bib and tucker
phrase
informal

One's smartest clothes.



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someone's best bib and tucker (phrase) definition and synonyms ...
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This is the British English definition of someone's best bib and tucker. View American English definition of someone's best bib and tucker. Change your default dictionary to American English. See also main entry: bib. mPulse. BuzzWord. youthquake. a significant political or social change caused by the actions of young ...
Bib and tucker definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
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bib and tucker in American. Informal. an outfit of clothes; esp., best bib and tucker best, or most formal, clothes. Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
best bib and tucker - Dictionary of American idioms - Academic ...
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or[Sunday best] or[Sunday go to meeting clothes] {n. phr.}, {informal} Best clothes or outfit of clothing. * /The cowboy got all dressed up in his best bib and tucker to go to the dance./ * /Mary went to the party in her Sunday best and made a…
Peer comment(s):
neutral Barbara Cochran, MFA : Too dated in this day and age and if the people getting married are Millennials, like most people who get married are.
9 mins
I have admiited it's dated. Everything depends on where in the EN-spkg world (which greatly exceeds USA) it's being used
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