Meanings (ES + gloss)
correcalles • pídola
A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated.
Are they [female students] not, indeed, generally wanting in that power of healthy stimulation which, exerted at proper intervals and sustained for proper periods, at once develops…
Madame could read with native grace and commendable fluency, making nimble leapfrogs over the heads of the exceptionally hard passages, but Leam had to spell every third word, and…
Phrases
Meanings (ES + gloss)
saltar
To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
Zachary Black jumps out from behind a bush. My heart leapfrogs up my throat, climbs out of my mouth and scarpers down the street.
rebasar • sobrepasar
To overtake.
If the following bus has no passengers who wish to get off, it may leapfrog the leader but will face the same delay at the next stop.
This new product will leapfrog the competition.
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