Translation for '
to poke sb sth' from English to Bulgarian
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- The cast of correspondents is quite diverse, and many often sarcastically portray extreme stereotypes of themselves to poke fun at a news story, such as "Senior Latino Correspondent", "Senior Youth Correspondent" or "Senior Black Correspondent".
- Smith, in his book "Halloween, Hallowed is Thy Name", offers a religious perspective to the wearing of costumes on All Hallows' Eve, suggesting that by dressing up as creatures "who at one time caused us to fear and tremble", people are able to poke fun at Satan "whose kingdom has been plundered by our Saviour".
- However, Oberst has admitted that the interview was something of a joke, intended to poke fun at the dark tone of the album.
- For example, Low riders used irony to poke fun at popular culture's perception of desirable vehicles, and bands like Los Illegals provided their listening communities with a useful vocabulary to talk about oppression and injustice.
- Lehman does not think that Disney used these aspects of the film to poke fun at conformity.
- The Oxford English Dictionary suggests the name is related to the verb "to puck" (a cognate of "poke") used in the games of shinty and hurling for striking or pushing the ball, from the Scottish Gaelic "puc" or the Irish "poc", meaning "to poke, punch or deliver a blow": Pucks are frozen before the game to reduce bouncing during play.
- The inclusion of a glory-hunting presidential character and the unfavorable portrayal of Security Council Members marked Batman's first attempts to poke fun at domestic and international politics.
- Boccaccio not only capitalizes on the tale to poke fun at the clerics of his day, but also at the simple-mindedness of some of his countrymen.
- Other physical methods use different means to poke holes in the cell membrane: Sonoporation uses high-intensity ultrasound (attributed mainly to the cavitation of gas bubbles interacting with nearby cell membranes), optical transfection uses a highly focused laser to form a ~1 µm diameter hole.
- Using the stick to poke the puck away from an opponent. For example, a defensive player may hit the puck out of the puck carrier's possession before making physical contact.
- He has a tendency to poke fun at trends in comic books or character archetypes.
- Part of Bullard's comedic style was interacting with audience members during his opening monologue, often deriving humour from finding ways to poke fun at an audience member's expense.
- Instead, Toohey used the occasion to poke fun at Woollcott on a number of fronts.
- It made no sense to poke the Russian bear with a stick.
- In addition to jesting about his homosexuality, Cambacérès' colleagues did not fail to poke fun at his gluttony.
- J. R. R. Tolkien used the name Bag End as a translation of "cul-de-sac" to poke fun at the British use of French terms.
- The character has been used to satirise the cult of celebrity, class snobbery, and prudishness and is often used by Humphries to poke fun at the political leaders and fashions of the times.
- Lisa Birnbach's 1980 book "Official Preppy Handbook" was written to poke fun at the rich lives of privileged Ivy League and socially elite liberal arts college students.
- Individuals have been observed to poke mud in and near puddles like hoopoes ("Upupa epops"); in general the bill is extensively used for digging, much like the similarly-shaped one of the red-billed chough ("Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax").
- A game among UNIX users, either to test the depth of an Emacs user's understanding of the editor or to poke fun at the complexity of Emacs, involved predicting what would happen if a user held down a modifier key (such as [...] or [...]) and typed their own name.
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