make strange | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,especially of small children)To behave in ashy,uncommunicative,resistantmanner when encountering anunfamiliarperson or situation.2009,Martha Long,Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed(2015 Seven Stories Press edition),→ISBN,(Google preview):"Come to Granny. You must surely bemaking strange, with all these foreign faces huffing and puffing around you, you poor little precious diddledums."2014, Florence Koenderink,Children Everywhere,→ISBN,page156:At a certain age, usually around 8 or 9 months, varying from child to child, most (but not all) children startmaking strange, meaning they become shy or even hysterical when held or touched by people they do not know well.2015, Colman Noctor,Cop On: What It Is and Why Your Child Needs It to Survive and Thrive in Today’s World‎[1],→ISBN:When children present with separation anxieties, they visibly ‘make strange’ or become distressed when separated from their parents or caregivers.

Examples:

EN: Politics make strange bedfellows.
ES: La política hace extraños compañeros de cuarto.
EN: All I meant to say was, politics and war... they make strange bedfellows.
ES: Lo que quería decir es que la política y la guerra hacen extraños compañeros de cama.
EN: Politics and wars make strange bedfellows.
ES: La política y la guerra crean grupos extraños.
ES: "La política y la guerra crean grupos extraños ".
EN: Der Bán, aged 37. Foreman at a machine factory in Ujpest. And Mátyás Vajda, 40, a charge hand at the same factory make strange co-patriots.
ES: Der Ban, 37 años, capataz en una fábrica de Ujpest, y Mathias Vajda, 40, obrero en la misma fábrica, forman unos extraños compatriotas.
EN: Your friends make strange allies, Ian.
ES: ! Tus amigos son extraños aliados, Ian.
EN: Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows.
ES: La política no hace extrañas parejas de cama.
EN: Thus unconscious doth make strange bedfellows of us all.
ES: "La inconciencia nos vuelve... "... compañeros de cama extraños. "
EN: Fairy tales do, indeed, make strange bedfellows.
ES: Los cuentos de hadas hacen, en efecto, extraños compañeros de cama.
EN: i would rather not be rescued by him, but, in wartorn france, one has to make strange bedfellows.
ES: Preferiría no ser rescatado por él, pero, en una Francia devastada, uno tiene que hacer aliados extraños.
EN: After all, negotiations make strange bedfellows.
ES: Después de todo, las negociaciones crean extraños compañeros de cama.
EN: If politics make strange bedfellows, then we certainly know where America is hashing it out.
ES: Si la política crea alianzas curiosas sabemos qué está discutiendo Estados Unidos.
EN: Or make strange things here ... how to mix with gel? would?
ES: ¿O quieres algo extraño de Inglaterra, como mezclarlos con gelatina?
EN: "Longing and suffering in silence..." make strange poetry
ES: Deseando y sufriendo en silencio... hago una poesía extraña
EN: Stefania heard the car make strange noises and took it to the dealer's garage.
ES: Había oído ruidos raros en el motor y lo llevó al taller del concesionario... donde mi padre lo compró hace un par de meses.

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