Translation for 'well to do' from English to Icelandic

well-to-do

efnaður {adj}

fjáður {adj}

bjargálna {adj}

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to be well-to-do

að vera í góðum efnum

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well-to-do person

efnamaður {k}

peningamaður {k}

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to do well

að hafa það gott

að komast vel af

to do well for oneself

að koma ár sinni vel fyrir borð

to do well by sb.

að farast vel við e-n

Well, what do you know!

Viti menn!

to resolve to do sth.

að ætla sér (að gera) e-ð

að ásetja sér e-ð

to manage to do sth.

að koma e-u við

að auðnast e-ð [e-m auðnast e-ð]

to dare to do sth.

að voga sér að gera e-ð

to have sth. to do

að hafa e-ð fyrir stafni

að eiga e-ð ógert

to plan to do sth.

að fyrirhuga e-ð

to want to do sth.

unverified að fýsa að gera e-ð

að nenna e-u

to offer to do sth.

að bjóðast til e-s

to intend to do sth.

að fyrirhuga e-ð

to refuse to do sth.

að neita að gera e-ð

to bother to do sth.

að nenna e-u

to have work to do

að hafa verk að vinna

• Ahmad Shah Massoud was born in 1953 in the small village of Jangalak, Bazarak in the Panjshir Valley (now administered as part of the Panjshir Province), to a well-to-do family native to the Panjshir Valley.
• Gelatin desserts were the province of royalty and the relatively well-to-do.
• He was supported by his father's investments, but Milton became a private schoolmaster at this time, educating his nephews and other children of the well-to-do.
• His father worked for the Compagnia dei Bardi and, in the 1320s, married Margherita dei Mardoli, who was of a well-to-do family.
• Löwenthal, who had often played and defeated talented youngsters, considered the informal match a waste of time but accepted the offer as a courtesy to the well-to-do judge.

• Martin Lynch-Gibbon is a well-to-do 41-year-old wine merchant whose childless marriage to an older woman called Antonia has been one of convenience rather than love.
• Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with strong moral views and a progressive social life.
• Semper was born into a well-to-do industrialist family in Altona.
• The 5th Duke had an elegant red-brick inn built at Edensor to cater to a growing number of well-to-do travellers coming to see Chatsworth.
• It stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about the social complications that arise following the development of a romance between a well-to-do widow and a younger man, who owns a tree nursery.

• When walking along with the old city market, you will see several large 18th- and 19th-century buildings that used to belong to well-to-do citizens and merchants.
• During the Restoration era (February 1665 – August 1714) a soap tax was introduced in England, which meant that until the mid-1800s, soap was a luxury, used regularly only by the well-to-do.
• Starch was widely used in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries to stiffen the wide collars and ruffs of fine linen which surrounded the necks of the well-to-do.
• During the Renaissance, more fanciful aprons crafted from finer fabrics began to appear—usually without bibs and often embroidered. Well-to-do women favored long dresses often with detachable sleeves, and to keep their expensive gowns clean, they wore washable aprons or overdresses in a range of embellishments and materials.
• According to William Taubman, Khrushchev's studies were aided by Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, a well-educated Party organizer and daughter of well-to-do Ukrainian peasants.

• He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.
• Richard is set free on bail, paid by his well-to-do family, and both Matt and Ruth are forced to see him around town.
• In some cases, courtesans were from well-to-do backgrounds, and were even married—but to husbands lower on the social ladder than their clients.
• As a child, Browning was fascinated by circus and carnival life. At the age of 16, and before finishing high school, he ran away from his well-to-do family to join a traveling circus.
• Claver's work on behalf of slaves did not prevent him from ministering to the souls of well-to-do members of society, traders and visitors to Cartagena (including Muslims and English Protestants) and condemned criminals, many of whom he spiritually prepared for death; he was also a frequent visitor at the city's hospitals.