Meanings (ES + gloss)
sopa inglesa
An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
It is interesting to watch the surface joviality on screen while racism is layered between courses like soggy trifles.
pizca
Anything that is of little importance or worth.
A trifle, some eight-penny matter.
He told her of horses which he had bought for a trifle and sold for incredible sums […]
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
tratar a la ligera
To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
You must not trifle with her affections.
[…] Do not believe / That, from the sense of all civility, / I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:
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