no dar abasto (con/para/a): no poder satisfacer la demanda o hacer todo lo que se exige.

-No paran de llegar nuevos pedidos, y somos solo dos personas. No damos abasto — New orders are coming in non-stop, and there are only two of us. We can't cope/keep up/ We're rushed off our feet

No llegamos a todo

→→No podemos con tantos pedidos

→ → →Estamos desbordados 

 

-No damos abasto con tanto WhatsApp — We can't cope with/handle all the WhatsApp messages

 

-Los servicios funerarios no dan abasto para incinerar a los muertos que se acumulan  Funeral directors have so many dead bodies to incinerate that they can't keep up /cope // Funeral directors have a backlog of dead bodies to incinerate

 

-No damos abasto a ver todas las series que querríamos ver — We just aren't able to watch all the series we would like to

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