Translation for 'play on words' from English to Portuguese

play on words

jogo {m} de palavras

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to play on sb.'s weakness

aproveitar a fraqueza de alguém

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in other words <IOW>

em outras palavras

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Uma imagem vale por mil palavras.provérb.

play

obra {f} [teatro]teatro

jogo {m}

brincadeira {f}

peça {f}teatro

jogada {f}

to play

pôr a tocarmús.

fazer o papel de [representação]cinemateatroTV

jogar

brincar

tocarmús.

to play checkers

jogar damasjogos

to play down

atenuar

minimizar

foul play

jogada {f} suja

play debt

unverified dívida {f} de jogo

to play games

fazer joguinhos

to play up

destacar

• It also conveyed the message that the Amiga computer line was "user friendly" as a pun or play on words.
• In a play on words, the use of race-conscious procedures in jury selection has been termed "jurymandering".
• The name of this fictional town is a play on words of Trepalle (literally "three balls"), a real town (near Livigno) whose priest was an acquaintance of Guareschi's.
• The three arches have become a symbol of the municipality, and have given rise to the moniker "The City of Arches" (Danish: "Buernes By", which in a play on words sounds remarkably similar to the phrase "Byernes By" or "The City of Cities").
• Golphstock was originally named Golfstock as a play on words of Woodstock, but the name changed when it was not for a golf course fundraiser.

• Ben Folds's album "Way to Normal" uses a similar play on words in a track that was inspired by driving past Effingham, although the song refers to the city as "Effington".
• This play on words is similar to Cockney rhyming slang.
• He is said to still teach at Brown University, and to be known for his work in "psychoceramics", the supposed study of "cracked pots" (a play on words of the term crackpot).
• The ad employed a play on words between the English word coolant and Spanish culón which means large derrière.
• The name "Tweety" is a play on words, as it originally meant "sweetie", along with "tweet" being an English onomatopoeia for the sounds of birds.

• The name is a play on words on Microsoft BackOffice Server software.
• The "civil serpents" (a play-on-words of the job 'civil servant') are trying to control everything that happens in the future, and try to stop randomness.
• The nautilus name was a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell.
• a Spoonerism is a play on words where corresponding consonant clusters are switched between two words in a phrase (or syllables in a word) and the switch forms another pair of proper "sounding" words.
• Being a half-byte, the nibble was named as a play on words.

• The feeling of this Carnival is the sharp criticism, the funny play on words and the imagination in the costumes, more than the glamorous dressings.
• There is a play on words: "Boia" means 'woman of the Boii', also 'convicted criminal's restraint collar'.
• The title of the series was a play on words of both the American spy series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
• The title is the name of its main character, and is also a play on words: in French and Catalan, "mort" means "death".
• At least two different books about the Major League Baseball club known as the "Dodgers" have used this character's name as a play-on-words for their titles: "The Artful Dodgers", edited by Tom Meany; and "The Artful Dodger", by Tommy Lasorda with David Fisher.