Usage examples of "palo de escoba" in Spanish with translation to English

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Lo apaleó hasta la muerte con un palo de golf. She beat him to death with a golf club.
Revolvé la pintura con un palo. Stir the paint with a stick.
Para mi cumpleaños él me regaló una escoba y me dijo que me pusiera a trabajar. For my birthday he gave me a broom and told me to get myself to work.
De tal palo, tal astilla. Like father, like son.
Una nueva escoba barre bien. A new broom sweeps clean.
Mira aquel palo en la plaza. Look at that pole in the square.
Até un palo a la planta para enderezarla. I tied a stick to the plant to straighten it.
El perro olfateó el palo. The dog sniffed the stick.
Le pegó al perro con un palo. He beat the dog with a stick.
Había una bandera en lo más alto del palo. There was a flag at the top of the pole.
En casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo. The cobbler's children go barefoot.
Él es un cara de palo. He's such a shameless jerk.
Cuando la escuela no tenía libros ni papel ni lapiceros, ella escribía el alfabeto en el suelo con un palo. When the school had no books or paper or pencils, she wrote the alphabet on the ground with a stick.
Métete un palo por el culo. Shove a stick up your ass.
El perro estaba olfateando un palo. The dog was sniffing a stick.
Que cada palo aguante su vela Each of us must face our own responsibilities
En casa del herrero, cuchillo de palo The blacksmith's mare and the shoemaker's children are the worst shod
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