serve the turn
Language: en
Meaning: (idiomatic,dated)Tosufficefor one's immediatepurposeorneed.
Examples:EN: my hand will serve the turn. My youth can better spare my blood than you, and therefore mine shall save my brothers' lives. Which of your hands hath not defended Rome and reared aloft the bloody battle-axe, writing destruction on the enemy's castle?
ES: En el invierno fundiré tus nieves con mis abrasadoras lágrimas y mantendré el verdor en tu superficie si rehúsas beber la sangre de mis amados hijos.
EN: My hand will serve the turn.
ES: Mi mano servirá.
Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ). Validation Count: 0
Sourced from Wiktionary