mata

bush, kills, shrub

Examples

"Mata" significa "ojo" en malayo, "mata mata" es "un número indeterminado de ojos" o la policía.

"Mata" means "eye" in Malay, "mata mata" is "an indefinite number of eyes"--or the police.

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Lo que no me mata me hace más fuerte.

What does not kill me, makes me stronger.

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Las armas no matan gente. La gente mata gente.

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

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Lo que no te mata te hace más fuerte.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

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Lo que no nos mata nos hace más fuertes.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

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Si parece una guerra, suena como una guerra y mata como una guerra, entonces es una guerra.

If it looks like a war, if it sounds like a war and if it kills like a war, then it actually is a war.

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La confianza mata al hombre y embaraza a la mujer.

Trust kills men and gets women pregnant.

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Quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere.

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.

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Solía ser sobrado y generoso, pero ahora vive a salto de mata.

He used to be well off and generous, but now he lives from hand to mouth.

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El hombre es, si no el más grande, sin duda el más peligroso de los animales salvajes. Él mata por placer.

Man, if he is not the largest, is certainly the most dangerous of wild animals. He kills for pleasure.

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Si debes matar, mata a un elefante, si debes robar, roba un tesoro.

If you must kill, kill an elephant and if you must rob, rob a treasury.

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La prisa mata.

Speed kills.

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Fumar mata.

Smoking kills.

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Mata a todos, Dios solo reconocerá a los suyos.

Kill everybody, God will only recognize his own.

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Ese trabajo me mata de aburrimiento.

That job bores me to death.

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No son los voltios lo que te mata sino los amperios.

It's not the volts that kill you it's the amps.

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El que a hierro mata a hierro muere.

He who lives by the sword will die by the sword.

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A menudo digo que un gran doctor mata a más gente que un gran general.

I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general.

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