fazer pouco — meaning in English
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English meaning
- underestimate verb To judge something to be smaller, less important, or less difficult than it actually is.
Senses
fazer pouco is used for these senses in English:
- make fun of (idiomatic, informal) To tease, ridicule or make jokes about, generally in a pejorative manner.
- take the mickey (intransitive, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, slang, idiom) To ridicule or mock.
- underestimate (transitive) To estimate too low; to perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has.
underestimate — full definition
- verb To judge something to be smaller, less important, or less difficult than it actually is.
- noun An estimate that turns out to be too low.