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naturally exclusive to that language as it is bound to a culture
in which bullfighting takes place.
English
Temperatures are falling.
Sales are slack.
Enrolment is dropping off.
Spanish
La temperaturas están bajando.
Las ventas están flojas.
Las cosas están de capa caída.
WEAKNESS IS DOWN
If POWER IS UP, a natural extension would seem to
be that WEAKNESS IS DOWN. In a discussion, if we have no
convincing arguments, we don’t have a leg to stand on. If we
are physically or mentally exhausted we are dead beat. If we
try to avoid admitting the seriousness of a situation, we play it
down. If we weaken a drink by adding water, we water it down.
An extension of POWER IS UP in some phrasal
verbs
I speculate that an extension of POWER IS UP may be
seen in English in many phrasal verbs which contain the
particle ‘up,’ expressing how things come into being,
apparently out of nothing, and reflecting how sometimes
things can appear to occur spontaneously, of their own
accord.
I think he made that story up.
The Alhambra conjures up ‘The Arabian nights’ in your
mind.
She rustled up a meal with a few vegetables.
Plans to extend the airport have whipped up a lot of
bad feeling.
He dreamed up the whole thing.
I have not been able to find any expressions in
Spanish reflecting this “something-out-of-nothing” notion which
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