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What is Santa?
Canonized by the Church: Saint Thomas Aquinas. It's also s.
[Thing] of special benefit or effectiveness: holy grass.
Sacred, inviolable: don't mess with my holy mother.
With certain nouns, it makes the meaning of these more important: it waited all day.
- desnudar a un santo para vestir a otro loc. col. Quitar algo de donde es preciso para colocarlo en otro lugar: quitar la lámpara del salón para ponerla en el dormitorio sin haber comprado otra para reponer la primera es desnudar a un santo para vestir a otro.
undress a saint to dress another loc. col. Remove something from where it is necessary to place it elsewhere: Removing the lamp from the living room to put it in the bedroom without having bought another one to replenish the first is to undress one saint to dress another.
- írsele a uno el santo al cielo loc. col. Olvidársele algo, descuidarse: con tanto lío se me fue el santo al cielo y me olvidé de las compras.
íse to one the saint to heaven loc. col. Forgetting something, neglecting yourself: with such a mess the saint went to heaven and I forgot about shopping.