04-21-2008, 01:19 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Texas
Posts: 467
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Hola maramaras:
In answer to your question about these sentences:
>the hotshot hotfoot that let the success from 2006 go to his head.
Hotshot has various meanings.
A "hotshot" in this instance, is a person who has a great deal of self-assurance. Hotfoot in this instance could mean a person who was an athlete, maybe a runner, for example who won in 2006 and it "went to his head", i.e., made him over-confident.
>A fire services study highlighting areas of concern for Hempfield Township and its 12 volunteer fire departments had all the effect of a mediocre hotfoot.
This is a play on words.  Fire services/hotfoot. Hotfoot in this instance refers to the hotfoot practical joke. Apparently a study found problems with the fire departments and they were ordered to rectify the problems quickly; or sent "hopping", caused to figuratively jump up and down as if they had been given a hotfoot, as in the joke.
Gee, this is a little hard to explain even in English. Maybe one of our Spanish natives can explain it in Spanish!?
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