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Sayings and expressions
I want to do a list with sayings and expresions in the English and the Spanish version.
I think this can be useful, can't it?
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delcarbas
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Let's start.
- Querer es poder
- Where there's a will, there's a way
- Lo prometido es deuda
- A promise is a promise
- Todo lo habido y por haber
- Every trick in the book
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- Cambiando de tema
- Changing gears
( It can be used with the verb in different tenses, e.g.: Let's change gears)
- Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando
- A bird in a hand is better than two in a bush
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Great idea! Let me see... (I'm no expert in sayings, really!)
This expression will be useful for you if you ever read an amazing novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (I just published an excerpt on our
website).
When trouble comes, close ranks
It's like advice, meaning that people should group together to face difficulties. "Ranks" is a military term, really. I wonder if that's why I don't
actually like the expression. I actually feel it's scary, as if the meaning was more that of excluding people... In the novel, it does have that
effect. This is the very beginning:
"They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. But we were not in their ranks. The Jamaican ladies had never approved of my
mother, 'because she pretty like pretty self" Christophine said.
(Christophine uses an English Creole language: She is as pretty as prettiness itself)
Co-fundadora de Interinas Sin Fronteras
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- Pedir peras al olmo
- To make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Thanx Cristina.
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"Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"
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You can't judge a book by its cover!
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- Hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma.
- Speaking of the devil...
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