English-Spanish translations for turnip

naboNo se trata de una reunión maratoniana sobre cuestiones agrícolas en la que haya que arbitrar entre zanahorias y nabos. This is not some kind of agricultural marathon, where one has to adjudicate between carrots and turnips. ¿Cree, de verdad, que se trata de zanahorias y nabos, cuando todavía no estamos de acuerdo acerca del final de la película? Do you really believe this is like dealing with carrots and turnips when no decision has yet been taken on the film's ending? En Escocia hay un viejo refrán que dice que no se puede sacar brillo a un nabo y ninguna presentación podrá ocultar el hecho de que la UE tiene un problema estructural que no está afrontando. We have an old saying in Scotland that you cannot polish a turnip and no amount of presentation will disguise the fact that the EU has a structural problem which we are not addressing.

The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, ''Brassica rapa'', grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle
A large, heavy pocket watch, so called because its profile resembled the vegetable
To plant with turnips
To feed or graze on turnips

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