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Romanian	English
a-l lua dracii/dracul	(fam.) to be hanged/damned/confounded; to blast; to down; to hang; to go to hell; lua-l-ar dracu(l)! the deuce take him! blast him! hang/damn the fellow! I wish him to the bottom of the sea; (fam.) (may) damnation/perdition take him! înv. (odd) rabbit him
a căuta pe dracul	(fam.) to look/to ask for trouble; to seek trouble; to kick against the pricks.
a cere cât dracul pe tată-său	aprox. to ask/to charge a stiff price; to overcharge; to come it strong.
a da de dracul	(fam.) to get hell; argou to get it in the neck; v. şi ~ de belea/bucluc.
a fugi de ceva/cineva ca de ciumă/ca dracul de tămâie	to avoid/to shun smth./smb. like a pesthouse/like the plague; prov. the devils loves no holy water.
a scoate dracii din cineva	to exorcize a devil from/ out of smb.
a se strâmba ca dracul	to make a grimace; to make/ to pull faces.
a se teme de ceva/cineva ca dracul de tămâie	to be/to stand in dread of smth./smb,; to have a holy terror of smth./smb.
a se ţine de drăcii	(fam.) to cut didoes; se ţine numai ~ he keeps playing pranks; he does no end of freaks/tricks.
a trimite pe cineva la dracu/la toţi dracii	(fam.) to send smb. to the devil/to hell/to blazes/to Jericho/to Hades; amer. to the devil across lots/to hell across lots; to see smb. damned/d-d/farther first/further first/in hell/ somewhere/s/. shot first/at Jericho/at York; to wish smb. farther.
a vedea pe dracul/naiba	to be in for it; to get into hot water; to get it in the neck.
a-i veni dracii	(fam.) to bridle up; to get waxy/into a wax; sl. to get/to be in a(n awful) bate.
ca pe dracul	(fam.) like the devil.
ce-şi face omul cu mâna lui nici dracul nu mai desface	prov. aprox. self do, self have.
dracul gol	the very devil/fiend.

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