May 4, 2004 13:27
21 yrs ago
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English term

deal-breaker

Non-PRO Homework / test English to Spanish Art/Literary Human Resources
If you want childern, that's going to be a deal breaker

Proposed translations

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5 hrs
English term (edited): that will be a deal-breaker

eso desharA el trato

The speaker is warning that s/he doesn't want children, and that if the significant other does, they had better not get together.
Peer comment(s):

agree Nora Bellettieri : deshacerá / aunque yo usaría: romperá el trato/ acuerdo
3 hrs
Thanks, Nora, the triple-digit heat here in Los Angeles must be affecting my brain ;~}
neutral Tom Bishop : You are suggesting that the translator use a capital letter at the end of the verb?
2 days 12 hrs
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14 days

el punto irreconciliable / callejón sin salida (sort of)

If a man and a woman might marry each other, but one wants kids and the other doesn't, then the union could/should be cancelled.
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