just about | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Approximately,verynearly.Synonyms:seeThesaurus:approximately‘Have you already reached your sales target?’ ‘Just about.’I’m(just) aboutready.1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard hadjust aboutripped what was left of it to ravellings.

Examples:

EN: "Well, I'm just about to make three, maybe four million dollars."
ES: "Pues estoy a punto de ganar tres, tal vez cuatro millones de dólares."
EN: You got tangled in my horse's hooves during the tragic hunt just about the time poor Edmée...
ES: Te enredaste entre los cascos de mi caballo, durante la trágica cacería justo cuando la pobre Edmée...
EN: Well, between us, Henry and I have just about undone the work of six generations of van Luyns.
ES: Entre nosotros, Henry y yo acabamos de deshacer el trabajo de seis generaciones de van Luyns.
EN: I was just about to...
ES: - Estaba a punto de...
EN: Mr. Meyers, I was just about to send you this... One moment, sir.
ES: Sr. Meyers, Estaba a punto de mandar esto... un momento, señor.
EN: Well, we have just about enough money to get us back to New York.
ES: Bueno, tenemos suficiente dinero para regresar a Nueva York.
EN: I've got a very dainty foot. - Are you ready? - Yes, just about.
ES: - mis pies son de lo más delicado.
EN: Oh, one more day of this is just about all for me.
ES: ¡Nunca más un día como éste!
EN: I think we shall just about do it.
ES: Está bien.
EN: Miss Baring was sitting just about there.
ES: Sería lo mismo que condenar a "Cleopatria".
EN: I'm just about fed up with your kind of stuff.
ES: Ya estoy harto de estas cosas.
EN: Their voodoo is just about as effective as anything we've been able to do.
ES: Es tan eficaz como lo que hicimos nosotros.
EN: I have a little favor I was just about to do for you.
ES: Me gustaría hablar contigo de un asuntillo.
EN: I've heard just about enough from you, Cimarron Cravat.
ES: Ya oí suficiente de ti, Cimarron Cravat.
EN: Ah, that's just about of lucky as that little rubbish that yarn of hers.
ES: Eso es mentira igual que todo lo que Nan ha dicho.

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