Thread: sacar al buey de la barranca

Tengo que traducir la frase siguiente "sacar al buey de la barranca". En el contexto mas amplio. "Es cierto que el carisma del nuevo presidente estadunidense gravitará en favor de la continuación del liderazgo mundial de su país en este proceso de sacar al buey de la barranca, pero no hay de momento mucho más que ese elemento." Por favor...alguien ayudeme!

I know the translation of a saying should be a saying, but, in this case, I'd have to stick with "resolving the problem" because I can't think of any saying that fits.

Muchas gracias a todos que me respondieron!

thanks a lot gernt!

see! there had to be a saying in English for that!

I've determined that "to iron out the problem" or more sensibly "to iron out the rough spots" is common to at least the United States.

I suggest:
to get things on the right track
to get things back on track

yeah, true, but I like it more one of the 2 sayings ("to iron out the problem" or "to iron out the rough spots"), because in that way, you are translating one saying for another one... yours is ok, but you are more explaining the saying in that way...

Originally Posted by analaura

yeah, true, but I like it more one of the 2 sayings ("to iron out the problem" or "to iron out the rough spots"), because in that way, you are translating one saying for another one... yours is ok, but you are more explaining the saying in that way...

Good point. But, I think it works better in the original quote. It fits the tone of the writing better. And "ironing out wrinkles" or "smoothing out rough spots" makes it sound like a small project. You would use those expressions to talk about small adjustments to something which is basically on track, and that definitely doesn't describe the situation facing our new president.

It's kind of you to suggest that the problems the US has are just wrinkles and rough spots---nuestro buey de verdad está en la barranca