pinch
/pɪnt͡ʃ/ sustantivo C2En español: pellizco, repizco, peñisco, peñizco
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers. · I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip. · Mix about four cups of white flour with a pinch of salt.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
Plural pinches
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
That’s the pinch.
Pinch him!
Then I’d pinch myself to see if it was real--until suddenly I remembered that even supposing it was only a dream I’d better go on dreaming as long as I could; so I stopped pinching.
Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep “_Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle_—” and went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop.
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