English-Portuguese translations for knuckle

junta dos dedos
noPenso que isso não se concilia com o facto de todos os meses, neste Parlamento, chamarmos à pedra países terceiros pela violação dos direitos humanos. I find that in conflict with the fact that every month in this Parliament we rap third countries over the knuckles for violation of human rights. Considero que, para certos jovens dos bairros desfavorecidos, é necessário um verdadeiro murro na mesa, a fim de os arrancar do poço sem fundo no qual estão afundados. I consider that for certain young people from marginal areas, a real brass-knuckle fight is now needed to dig them out of the bottomless pit they have sunk into. Não podemos ter uma corrida em direcção ao fim da fila, em que os Estados-Membros se apressam por evitar atrair o investimento externo, não vá Bruxelas dirigir-lhes uma reprimenda. We cannot have a race to the back of the queue as Member States scurry to avoid attracting outside investment for fear of getting a rap on the knuckles from Brussels.

Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers
A cut of meat
The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being
The joint of a plant
A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom
The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste
To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles
To bend the fingers
To yield

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