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echarnos porras

English translation: cheer up/encourage/support

14:42 Aug 13, 2020
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Slang
Spanish term or phrase: echarnos porras
From an email discussing a broken relationship:

...solo queria que toda fuera como al inicio, volver a tener platicas, echarnos porras el uno al otro, volver a sentir que eramos amigos...
Elizabeth Novesky
United States
Local time: 01:46
English translation:cheer up/encourage/support
Explanation:
I basically means to cheer up or encourage someone :)
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Julieta Dambolena (X)
Argentina
Local time: 02:46
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2cheer up/encourage/support
Julieta Dambolena (X)
4buck each other up
Antonella Perazzoni
4encourage
Lorena C. Dornelas
4rekindle the flame
David Hollywood


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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
cheer up/encourage/support


Explanation:
I basically means to cheer up or encourage someone :)


    https://www.wordmagicsoft.com/diccionario/es-en/echar%20porras%20a.php#:~:text=Definir%20significado%20de%20%22echar%20porras,esfuerzo%2C%20
    https://hinative.com/es-MX/questions/2712968
Julieta Dambolena (X)
Argentina
Local time: 02:46
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Antonella Perazzoni
58 mins
agree  Marcelo González
2 hrs
neutral  Robert Carter: encourage/support each other, yes, but "cheer up" means something different (i.e., make a person who is sad happier). "Cheer each other on" (i.e., motivate each other) is what I think you're looking for.
10 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
buck each other up


Explanation:
Otra alternativa posible

Antonella Perazzoni
Argentina
Local time: 02:46
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
encourage


Explanation:
means to encourage sb.


    https://www.spanishdict.com/answers/251622/echar-porras
Lorena C. Dornelas
Brazil
Local time: 02:46
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
rekindle the flame


Explanation:
idiomatic and in your context means mutually encourage and get back to the eay they were

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Note added at 14 hrs (2020-08-14 04:53:38 GMT)
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should read "way" of course

David Hollywood
Local time: 02:46
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 48
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