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Significados de slap-bang em inglês

In a violent or sudden or noisy manner.

Uso de slap-bang em inglês
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Trying to get it back, arms out, she walked slap-bang into the torches.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
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Wolfe, I was pretty certain, fell slap-bang into this category.
The last 10 seconds
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I was slap-bang in the middle of a 90-day tour.
The Guardian
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There is a very large elephant sitting slap-bang in the middle of international rugby's room.
The Irish Times
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It went on slap-bang in front of me and still I did not realise it.
The gathering
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Round after round he scrambled his way in, slap-bang, right and left, every hit tremendously sent home.
Rodney Stone
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We walked slap-bang into perfectly directed fire.
A Yankee in the Trenches
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Jason's snooker hall, slap-bang in the middle of the Triangle, is where Ken Doherty misspent his youth so profitably.
The Irish Times
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This second-rate, fairly dumb, predictable slap-bang-wallop opened in the US without any advance previews whatsoever and you could see why.
The Irish Times
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But it's slap-bang mainstream now and like every outdoors activity, has sprung its own esoteric selection of gear, gadgets and toys.
The Irish Times
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Trailing behind Newcomers Rain -a data-onlynetwork -sit slap-bang in the middle of the ratings, finishing third-best in every field.
The South African
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Hardest of all is the lot of the trooper in the trenches, who thinks all day and dreams all night of a slap-bang, tally-ho!
Mr. Punch's History of the Great War
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It seems to be set in stone and it's slap-bang in the middle of our pre-season operation when ideally I would want my player available.
The Guardian
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But he is 77 and slap-bang in the Covid-19 danger zone, and accepts that now is the time to sit tight, wait it out.
The Irish Times
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"Do your ancestors go right slap-bang back to the Conquest?"
A harum-scarum schoolgirl