"no pressure" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-no pressure.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} no pressure
  1. An absence of social expectations about one's behavior or performance in a situation. Translations (relational): sin presión (ninguna) (Spanish), no tener presión (ninguna) [verb] (Spanish), no haber presión (ninguna) (alt: (en) donde) [impersonal, verb] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-no_pressure-en-noun-LWb7p-0G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 84 16 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 80 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 92 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 92 8

Phrase

Audio: En-au-no pressure.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-head|phr}} no pressure
  1. (idiomatic) The situation at hand is rife with emotional pressure. Tags: idiomatic Translations (phrase): (pero) tranquilo [masculine] (Spanish), no hay presión (ninguna) (pero) (Spanish), sin presión (ninguna) (pero) (Spanish), (pero) sin presionarte (Spanish)
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