Spanish term
United States
24 years of experience in many countries
Native in: Spanish 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, English to French, and 6 more.
Se vieron en la calle sin calzones!
This is from the story about The hen that laid the golden eggs of Aesop and Félix María de Samaniego
Here is the full paragraph:
¡Cuántos hay que teniendo lo bastante,
enriquecerse quieren al instante,
abrazando proyectos a veces de tan rápidos efectos,
que sólo en pocos meses, cuando se contemplaban ya marqueses,contando sus millones.
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Proposed translations
Spain
PER ASPERA AD ASTRA
Native in: Spanish
Works in: German to Spanish, Spanish to German, English to Spanish, and 5 more.
They found/saw themselves in the street deprived of everything!
As for “sin calzones”, I do not recommend to go too literal in this case. “Deprived of everything” conveys the meaning very well, in my view.
https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=ver...
verse⇒ v prnl
(hallarse, encontrarse)
find yourself vi + pron
see yourself vi + pron
El alcalde podría verse en problemas de hacerse públicas unas fotos comprometedoras.
The mayor could find himself in trouble over the release of some compromising photos.
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Sorry, I didn´t copy my explanation in full. This is the complete explatation:
This is my interpretation of the final phrase from the exemplary fable by Aesop (Samaniego´s and Lafontaine´s versions were obviously written much later). It is important to point out that “se vieron” should not be translated as “they were seen” (= fueron vistos), since “verse” is in this particular case a reflexive verb with the meaning of “find themselves/see themselves”.
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Juan Jacob
: De acuerdo. Matiz importante.
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Gracias por tu confirmación, Juan Jacob.
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ormiston
: Stripped of everything might reflect the Spanish better!
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Okay, thanks for your confirmation.
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Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
: Totalmente de acuerdo, y me gusta la sugerencia de Ormiston.
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Hola Bea. Gracias por tu confirmación.
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United States
Laudable Lady Linguist
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
They were seen in the street, naked from the waist down!
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Orkoyen (X)
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Thanks again, Orkoyen.
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Toni Castano
: No, not "they were seen", but they found themselves...
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Juan Jacob
: De acuerdo con Toni.
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Cecilia Gowar
: Agree with Toni
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United Kingdom
Flair and accuracy tailored to your text
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
They were seen in the street without their pants on
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Toni Castano
: No, not "they were seen", but they found themselves...
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Juan Jacob
: De acuerdo con Toni.
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Cecilia Gowar
: Found themselves, as Toni said.
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United Kingdom
I read the Alethiometer
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, French to Spanish, and 1 more.
Found themselves destitute and homeless
1. locs. verbs. coloqs. Perder la hacienda o los medios con que se mantenía. (RAE)
| Muchas gracias por la sugerencia Cecilia. |
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Toni Castano
: Homeless, Cecilia? Why? Although possible, the source does not go into such details. Overinterpretation...
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United Kingdom
Academic and Literary Translator
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, Greek to English
found themselves stripped bare
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Note added at 1 day 15 hrs (2021-10-02 11:57:51 GMT)
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or something like stripped bare of their gains and more. Just pondering as don't have full text.
| Thanks for your help Domini. Is this suggestion for British English? Please let me know. Thanks. |
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