- A caballo regalado no se le miran los dientes - Pan para hoy, hambre para mañana - Mas vale pájaro en mano que cien volando - Agua que no has de beber, déjala correr - Al mal tiempo, buena cara - Aunque la mona vista de seda, mona se queda. - Yerba mala nunca muere - Guagua que no llora, no mama - En el País de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey
The "sana, sana"-saying exists in German, too :D But instead of a frog Germans call for a goose! "Heal, heal, little goose, wiggle your tail, everything will be well." Also you might add food: "heal, heal, marshmallow, in 100 years it'll all be gone." It's stupid, but in German at least, it rhymes :D
FLAMA My mon always says "no hay que rascarle las nalgas al diablo" "dont scratch the devil's ass" meaning not to risk it when doing something dangerous.
In portuguese it's "mais vale um pássaro na mão do que dois a voar" which translates to "it's better a bird in the hand than two flying" as in you should be content with what you have, one bird, than risk losing what you have (to catch a hypothetical second bird) and ending up with nothing.
My mom always sats to me "El diablo save Mas por Viejo que por diablo." which means "The devil isn't smart because he's the devil, the devil is smart because it's old."
Ella lo entendió perfectamente, la crítica del video es comparando la manera directa de hablar en inglés vs el palabrería "poético" en español. Como que el que no entendió fue otro :-P
"Por la boca muere el pez" = "By the mouth died the fish" se refiere a que una persona recibirá castigo por hablar mal de algo o alguien, o que deberá asumir las consecuencias de las afirmaciones que hace sobre algún tema delicado. Es una advertencia a tener cuidado con las cosas que dices.
Mejor dile: "muerto el pollo"... And that's it... Dead chicken... Whaaattt??!!! quien lo mato? o no, mejor no... resultaria en trauma para el/ella jajaja
+naniccabe I have always though of '' Ni que ocho cuartos'' as '' Not even eight rooms''. I have always wonder about those '' eight rooms''. Are they the rooms of a hotel?
translation eight fourths. meaning there is only four fourths to make a whole. if somebody is telling you they have eight fourths they're bull s...ing you
The saying "ser más chulo que un ocho" (to be cooler than an eight) has a lot of history. In Madrid, the people in the 19th century used to go to a big park called "La casa de campo" where they spent all the day with the family having a picnic. The richest people went there by tram. The line from the centre to the park was the eighth line, so the poorest people started using the reference of the eight in this expression that is used even nowadays.
I love these. Here we also say *más hace malo conocido que bueno perdido* Well, it's like *es mejor callarse y parecer tonto que abrir la boca y despejar las dudas*
+Anaïs Madera Roldán For those who want to know, it means ''just in case'' Example: Going to the woods for camping where you know there are bears near *grabs rifle* ''for the flies''
Tanto nadar para morir en la orilla. (When you work hard for something big and it doesn't work out.) Tanto pujar para cagar blandito. (when you work and study hard for something and in the end it was really easy) No calientes la comida si no te la vas a comer. (about flirting and not hooking up) El que no llora no mama. (if you wanted something you should've asked for it) El que se pica es porque ají come. (Who gets deffensive when looking for culprits is probably one ) My mom's favorite: Cualquier cosa pasa en Macondo. (I doubt Macondo exist...) Para los gustos los colores. (Diversity) Quién te dió velas en este entierro? (family fight, don't interrupt) Qué hace un burro hablando de orejas? (when someone shit talks a trait on someone they themselves have) Siempre habla el que menos puede. Quien se mete a mono pierde el rabo. Mientras el hacha va y viene. (do something while another task gets completed) Feo pa la foto y peor para el video. Me como un cable. (complain about problems) Sea mi vida gris. (complain/curse) Moro viejo, mal Cristiano. (people don't change) Cria fama y acuestate a dormir. (once people have an idea of you, its hard to change, be good or bad) Matar a cuchillito de palo. (always annoying someone with hurtful comments) Palo si boga, palo si no boga. (whatever you do is bad for someone) Otros 20 pesos. (another topic) Mucho capitán y poco marinero. (many people giving orders and no one does a thing) These are the ones i can think of from Puerto Rico.
+Cesar Gonzalez La de "Cualquier cosa pasa en Macondo" es una referencia al Macondo de 100 años de soledad de García Márquez... ahí, efectivamente, cualquier cosa era posible... :D
I'm not a native speaker, but my favorite one I've learned so far is "planchar las orejas"="to iron the ears"="dormir" in Spain. Laughed for a solid 5 minutes the first time I heard it.
In Spanish class we learned the phrase "Él que fue a Sevilla perdío su silla" and the English equivalent is "move your feet lose your seat" so much simpler!
"El burro hablando de orejas" (For someone whose judging someone else when they do the same ) and the classic Mexican one "No le eches tanta crema a tus tacos" (someone who thinks they're all that ...lol I never noticed we had so many sayings like that in Spanish!
Nery Fuentes The venezuelan version of the burro one is the one that Joanna said in the video: Cachicamo diciéndole a morrocoy conchudo (armadillo calling a tortoise shelly)
+Nery Fuentes de colombia es creo por lo menos en el norte: "El burro burlandose del cerdo por ser orejon y el elefante riendose" "the donkey making fun of pig for its big ears and the elephant laughing"
my favorite: ''qué tiene que ver el culo con las pestañas?'' (venezuelan) ''what does the ass have to do with the eyelashes?'' meaning two things that don't relate to one another in any way
Amor T. That they tears are fake or their "suffering emotion" is fakelike to manipulate you or something. dunno the times I have said it you expres you are not sympathetic with their feeling example you have a fight boyfriend over he kissed a girl or cheated and he is all criying and saying he is sorry that would never happen blab la bla and just say “croc tears man its to late to be sorry fuck you and that bitch etc etc”
"La cabra tira al monte" The goat goes to the mountain (but literally it translates as "The goat THROWS to the mountain"). It means that some kind of people are never gonna change, ever.
Pablo, "éramos pocos y parió la abuela (o parió la burra)" es una queja. "Cuanta más masa mejor se pasa" es como "Contra más seamos, más reiremos", y tiene una connotación de diversión.
Favourite episode! I also grew up speaking both languages and I thought I was the only one who noticed and got so confused about Spanish and its infinite amount of sayings that even though I am fluent my brain feels like is frying as I try to understand spanish sayings, its worse than riddles, if you do not speak Spanish you have no idea how conplicaticated Spanish sayings are, its like learning spanish in spanish, its worse than algebra...I get so amazed as a kid and still to this day in my late 20s when my mom and other relatives in 1 , 2 seconds explain to me a saying or hear them quote them ! How do they remember all these things? Spanish sayings and many Spanish so gs are fucked , they're like fables, mysteries and metaphorical... Does anyone agree ? lol
Joanna I love you! but what I want to know more than anything is who’s the guy you’re always speaking with? show his face! make a video with him perhaps?
+Darby M obviamente no vas ha hablar con el mismo vocabulario en una entrevista de trabajo que en una reunión familiar con tus amigos. Yo también soy Dominicana y se diferenciar cuando si y cuando no. No tiene que ver de donde seas.
A caballo regalado no se le miran los dientes You don't look at the teeth of a horse that was a gift. Which is basically not complaining fro what you get. And in Argentina Tirar manteca al techo (throw butter to the ceiling) ist to waste money because butter used to be really expensive and having enough to throw it away meant you had money? I know, it's messed up
Well what we Germans tell our kids when they hurt themselves doesn't make any fucking sense either. In roughly translates into :" Heal, heal, after just seven days of rain and seven days of snow it won't hurt anymore" Crazy right? Are you telling me that that little scratch will hurt for two damn weeks ?
"Mejor solo que mal acompañado" , that's another one, like, "it's better being alone than being with people you hate" ( i'm spanish, yea, I know my English is bad, sorry, I'm learning ;) )
I think it is like "cuando la puerca se quiere bañar, se le acaba el jabón y el agua" which means: "when a pig wants to take a shower, there aren't soap and water". And that means something like when you're going to do something, you have an excuse for not doing it
I'm Argentinean and I've never heard that saying. Here we would say "it's nobody's death" ( no es la muerte de nadie) or "it's not the Turkish man's death" ( no es la muerte del turco)
Intentaré no repetir los que he leido ya: *Más contento q muchacho comiendo moco (Happier than a toddler eating boogers) *Quien no llora no mama (who doesn't cry doesn't suck tit?) *Se te van a quemar las tajadas (you´ll burn the tajadas) *Andar con una mano alante y la otra atrás (beeing with one hand in front and the other behind) *Más peligroso que barbero con hipo (more dangerous than a barber with hiccups) *En tierra de ciegos el tuerto es el rey (in the land of the blinds, the one with one eye is king) *El ojo del amo engorda el ganado (the master's eye fattens the cattle) *mas lago que peo de culebra (longer than a snake's fart) *mas aburrido que partida de ajedrez por la radio (more boring than a chess game on the radio)
Paisas from Colombia have some good ones. "Paila", for instance. A "paila" is a cooking pot; that's it, just a cooking pot. What does it actually mean in our weird mountain dialect? It means you're screwed. How? I don't fucking know. But hey, at least it's concise, it's not some short tale involving animals and shit, lol
Si, pero como los comentarios acá están en inglés, pues pensé que era más apropiado, lol. Soy paisa de pura cepa, aunque el acento no me sale ni a palo, haha.
***** Si de hecho es colombia es "A cada marrano le llega su noche buena" in English "Each pig gets its Christmas Eve" because on Christmas Eve we eat Lechona (stuffed pig)
En Inglés también hay cosas que no tienen sentido, o no van al caso, como: Facebook, ¿para una red social? ¿Caralibro? Apple? ¿qué tiene que ver con una empresa? TH-cam? ¿TúTubo? Playboy? ¿Jueganiño?
*I'm sorry but my Spanish is not so good so I'll just write in English. The "Apple" company was named after Alan Turing, the man who invented the first computer. Turing loved eating apples. Nevertheless, because he was gay at the time when it was literally illegal to be gay, he was sentenced to two years of hormonal therapy, and a year after being sentenced he committed suicide by eating a poisoned apple. A bitten apple was found near his dead body, so the company took this motive and made it their logo :)
Donde manda capitán no manda marinero- El burro no coje por lindo coje por insistente- El pez por la boca muere- El que no llora no mama- Calavera no chilla- A caballo regalado no se le mira los dientes- de Argentina. Saludos!
In Norway people like to say «det gikk nord og ned», which in English would be «It went northwards and down». It basically means that the situation went to hell.
Im Brazilian and my mom used to always tell me "Leite quente faz dor de dente especialmente os dentes da frente" which translated to "Hot milk makes your teeth hurt especially the front ones" to this day I have no idea what it means. Maybe it has something to do with not rushing into things too quickly
"Allá donde cayó el avión"- "The place where the plane fell down", is used to talk about a far away place. "Largo como semana sin galleta"- "As long as a week without cookies", used to talk about a hard and/or endless period. "Como pez en el agua"- "Like fish under the sea", means confortable. "Como sapo de otro pozo"- "like a frog from another lake", means unconfortable. "Cabecita de novia"- "Head of a bride", used to talk about a person who is always distracted. "El que se fue a Sevilla, perdio su silla"- "The guy who went to Sevilla, lost his chair". Something like if you don't take the opportunity you'll loose it.
The english language also has some folksy non-sense sayings of it's own: 1-"Until the cows come home" means "To wait a really long time" 2-"To keep them at bay" means "To keep them away" 3-"Better the devil that you know" means "Trust those you already know" 4-"To bury the hatchet" means "To make peace with someone" 5-"Out of the blue" means "All of a sudden" 6-"Don't put all your eggs in one basket" means "Don't try to do it all at once" or "Don't take all your chances on one bet"
Number 4 and 5 also exist in German, like almost literal translations of it. 4- The "hatchet" started with a novel portraying Native American traditions. According to Wiktionary, it's also used in French, Dutch, Swedish and Russian. 5- "Blue" for blue sky as in the unknown (domain). In German you can also "(shoot/talk/drive) into the blue" meaning "(...) without purpose/aim". Apparently there's even a specific juristic term using this saying. And you can "lie/promise/tell the blue out of the sky (down)" meaning you're lying and making up everything you tell another person. German sayings: 4- "Das Kriegsbeil/ Die Streitaxt begraben" 5- "Aus dem Blauen (heraus)" 5a- "Ins Blaue (hinein)" 5b- "Behauptung ins Blaue hinein" 5c- "Das Blaue vom Himmel (herunter)lügen/ versprechen/ erzählen"
+Joanna Hausmann siempre recuerdo en un examen de filosofía en la universidad nos preguntaron quien había dicho esa frase (o algo relacionado con eso) y nadie lo recordaba... creo que fue Aristóteles... Aunque luego cuestioné que si en la época de Aristóteles existieran pelucas o usaran ese término...
"Nunca digas de esta agua nunca beberé" - " Never say you will never drink this water "actually makes a lot of sense. It takes longer than "never say never" but by using water it reminds us that although we may not be thirsty right now, we may later get thirsty enough to drink anything we can lay hands on. The shortest answer is not always the best.
"No hay mal que por bien no venga" "Tu no mojas pero empapas" "Los niños hablan cuando las gallinas mean" "Me etas llenando la cachimba de tiera." "No tapes el sol con un dedo. "No llegarle las patas al culo" "Dime con quien andas y te dire quien eyes" "Al mal tiempo buena cara" *Sorry for the spelling my keyboard is on English & it keeps attempting to correct it. Unfortunately i'm unable to make the necessary changes bc it's my work computer**
"Los niños hablan cuando las gallinas mean" Las gallinas no mean, los intestinos y el aparato urinario de las aves desembocan por un solo conducto (Frase empleada contra los niños que hablan cuando no les corresponde”.) Ej: “Tú cállate, que los niños hablan cuando mean las gallinas”. "Me estás llenando la cachimba de tierra." Esta si se me hace difícil explicar... la "cachimba" termina por llenarse cuando la paciencia se quiebra. Ej: Niño traviesos acaban con la paciencia de los padres.
I love my Spanish sayings! They're more metaphorical, put your mind to work, make you think. I see this in sayings from other countries as well. English sayings are just lazy.
``Estoy a dos velas´´ I am at two candles that means I have no money; ``Llorar como una magdalena´´ Cry like a madeleine that means cry a lot, ``Vete a freír esparragos ´´ go and fry asparragus that means Get lost! and one that I still don´t understand ``te quiero como la trucha al trucho´´ I love you like the female trout to the trout.
en chile es "Donde el diablo perdió el poncho" a compración con venezuela solo cambia la prenda de vestir, pero significa lo mismo, que un lugar está muy lejos.
Nosotros en Honduras usamos "donde en diablo perdió la chancleta" (espero que chancleta no signifique otra cosa en cualquier otro país jejejeje) de nuevo lo que cambia es la prenda de vestir...
+Alba Marina Rodas Garache ajajaj no lo se, aqui en Chile chancleta al menos los significados que yo conozco son 2, chancleta como sandalia (calzado) y chancleta como se le llama a las hijas mujeres, por ejemplo: un hombre que ha engendrado en una mujer solamente hijas y ningun varon, se le dice que es un "chancletero" XD
+Valentina Sepulveda nosotros usamos chancleta como calzado, no sabía que en Chile tuviera ese otro significado jajajaja siempre se conoce algo nuevo... :P
In spain we use these: Me lo ha dicho un pajarito (I was told by a little bird) when you know something you shouldn't know about a person and they ask you how you know that No le pidas peras al olmo (don't ask the elm for pears) when something is impossible Estar entre Pinto y Valdemoro (to be between pinto and valdemoro -regions in madrid) when you have two options and you don't know which you should take Estar entre la espada y la pared (to be between the sword and the wall) basically, to be f*cked up, or in some cases, it has the same meaning than above Deja de mirar las musarañas (stop looking at the shrews) you're told this -everyday at elementary school- when you stay way too much time looking at nowhere And so on, it is true there's a kind of obsession with animals xd
Realmente los dichos que has dicho son latinoamericanos pero he aquí algunos peores: -Si la mona se viste de seda mona se queda -Cuando el grajo vuela bajo hace un frío del carajo -A caballo regalado no le mires el diente
+Yery En otros casos también le dicen "a caballo regado no se le mira el colmillo" no te quejes de las cosas que te regalan, o no le busques errores a las cosas que te regalan porque los caballos no tienen colmillos.
Sin ser soez (cosa tipicamente española) Todo se hace con tiempo y una caña Without being vulgar (which typically Spanish) everything is done with time and a cane
"Nunca digas de esta agua no beberé" es porque el dicho completo dice "Nunca digas de esta agua no beberé porque el camino es largo y te puede dar sed. Significa que la vida es larga y no sabemos lo que puede pasar ni cuando necesitemos hacer lo que decimos que nunca haremos.
Weird sayings: 1- A buenas horas, mangas verdes. 2- Hasta mayo, no te quites el sayo. 3- Cuando el grajo vuela bajo, hace un frío del carajo. 4- Meterse en camisa de once varas. There are a lot of historical sayings that have their own explanations and there are even some books with all those idomatic expressions.
@TheIndelibleCaptain Nope. It's usually told to people that don't help people like family or close friends; but when that kind of people are around strangers or people outside a close circle, they are willing to do anything for them. "Candil" is a lamp. A bright street lamp (outside home), but in its home (where it's important) is pitch black dark.
"Hablo de puta la tacones" We say this in spain, i love this one (The one with the high heels talked about whores) it means acusing someone for something you also do.
" Chocolate por la noticia" it's something we say in Argentina when someone tells you something that you already knew or that is really obvious, and it translates as "chocolate for the news"
Es demasiado malsonante. La frase entera es: Me cago en la leche que mamaste. No quiero ni traducir eso al inglés porque esta gente se endemonia por cualquier cosa y más los yanquis.
I remember learning another Spanish equivalent to "You snooze, you lose": "Quien va a Sevilla pierde su silla".
Mi amiga me dijo que ellos dicen "Pancho Villa se fue a la villa y perdió su silla."
Jacob El que se va a Barranco, pierde su banco. Y el que se va a Lima se sienta encima.
quien se fue a la villa, perdio su silla
En Colombia lo llevamos al siguiente nivel: El que se va para Barranquilla pierde su silla y se sienta en una puntilla.
"el que se fue a sevilla perdio su silla"... respuesta: "el que fue y volvió de una oreja lo sacó"
- A caballo regalado no se le miran los dientes
- Pan para hoy, hambre para mañana
- Mas vale pájaro en mano que cien volando
- Agua que no has de beber, déjala correr
- Al mal tiempo, buena cara
- Aunque la mona vista de seda, mona se queda.
- Yerba mala nunca muere
- Guagua que no llora, no mama
- En el País de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey
- pan para mayo.
KARIN SCHAFER hay casi todos estos en alemán...
¿Que quiere decir la ultima?
Dynamic_Daicon-Man (ver mi texto corregido abajo)
Annie Be 'Discapacitado, no minusválido.
my favorite is "Mas vale condon en el pene, que ropa para el nene"
what was her research for this video? an entire season of "Como dice el dicho"?
lmao
RT Foreva
good one
jajaja me encanta ese
The "sana, sana"-saying exists in German, too :D But instead of a frog Germans call for a goose!
"Heal, heal, little goose,
wiggle your tail,
everything will be well."
Also you might add food:
"heal, heal, marshmallow,
in 100 years it'll all be gone."
It's stupid, but in German at least, it rhymes :D
Bye shrimp, BAIIIIIIII.
FLAMA When is she making a video about the word "guarandinga"?
FLAMA My mon always says "no hay que rascarle las nalgas al diablo" "dont scratch the devil's ass" meaning not to risk it when doing something dangerous.
Andres Altuve ...family of Coroto...
Andres Altuve Also peroles and corotos. That would be funny!
Otro con animales: El perico donde quiere es verde
"Más vale pájaro en mano, que cien volando" -> "It's better bird in a hand that a hundred flying"
We have the same saying in Arabic, with a slight difference " A bird in the hand is better than ten on a tree " :D
We have something similar in Polish "Better sparrow in a hand than pigeon on the roof" :)
In portuguese it's "mais vale um pássaro na mão do que dois a voar" which translates to "it's better a bird in the hand than two flying" as in you should be content with what you have, one bird, than risk losing what you have (to catch a hypothetical second bird) and ending up with nothing.
Amazing, I have no idea that this proverb was so popular.
In english is something like bear and sell it...
The best in Spanish is Lo comido es lo seguro. The eated is the sure,
.. my favourite has always been "mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo". i still use it :)
Omg my grandma uses this
menos conoce dios y mas perdona jajajaja
I've never heard this one before can, I please get an explanation?
+Maggi Maldonado que la experiencia te da conocimiento? asi lo interpreto yo
+Maggi Maldonado Devil's knows more for being old that for being Devil
Means that experience is better than talent or something like that
"Le salió el tiro por la culata" when something you do backfires is one of those amazing sayings 😄
Jajajajjaja siiiiiii. 👍🏻👍🏻
My mom always sats to me "El diablo save Mas por Viejo que por diablo." which means "The devil isn't smart because he's the devil, the devil is smart because it's old."
oops, sabe. keyboards on english.
because its old and has experience * :)
Camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente jajajajajaja esa fue buena
Javier Dardón Ella no es es gringa que no escuchas como habla -.-
Si, me dí cuenta de su acento al hablar español. De donde será?
Venezuela
Ella lo entendió perfectamente, la crítica del video es comparando la manera directa de hablar en inglés vs el palabrería "poético" en español.
Como que el que no entendió fue otro :-P
This one also exist in portuguese, at least in Brazil: Camarão que dorme a onda leva.
In spain you can hear a lot "no hay mal que por bien no venga" means that everything bad has a good part too
En Mexico lo decimos tambien
"every cloud has a silver lining"
"Por la boca muere el pez" = "By the mouth died the fish" se refiere a que una persona recibirá castigo por hablar mal de algo o alguien, o que deberá asumir las consecuencias de las afirmaciones que hace sobre algún tema delicado. Es una advertencia a tener cuidado con las cosas que dices.
No es la traducción correcta en inglés pero si es la explicación jeje
Valentina Sepulveda que digas*
Esa la conozco de siempre. Es parecida a: el que mucho habla, mucho yerra.
Los ticos dicen:los sapos mueren aplastasdos
Se usa como una advertencia para gente metiche o para lo que digiste
the other day i tried explaining "listo el pollo" to a friend of mine that is learning spanish. he was very confused lol
+Sebi Barberena
You: Ready the chicken
Friend: What chicken?
You: There is no chicken....
Mejor dile: "muerto el pollo"... And that's it... Dead chicken... Whaaattt??!!! quien lo mato? o no, mejor no... resultaria en trauma para el/ella jajaja
+Sebi Barberena "Muerto el pollo!!!" or Eso esta "planchao" it's ironed. The plans are set, it's done. etc.
+Joanna Hausmann hey in Nicaragua we say "muerta la lora". 😂
Sebi Barberena jajaj una de mis favoritas
mi favorito es "y vuelve la burra al trigo" xDD
+AleJuliet same as "vuelve la cerda al fango"
"Y vuelve el perro arrepentido"
+Carla Mendoza con el hocico partido y el rabo entre las piernas
+AleJuliet y el pollino a la cebada
+AleJuliet Y dale con que las gallinas mean xD
There's one that says: The letter with blood enters. And it means being strict with the students will make them learn.
ok but literally Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter
+natalia j z A bird in the hand worths more than a hundred flying
+natalia j z Perú?
+solountipomas Dicho de otro modo: Mas vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando
Here's a straight forward one " Al que madruga dios lo ayuda"
"ni que nada ni que ocho cuartos" ..."not anything either eight quarters"
naniccabe yo lo digo mucho, pero nunca lo entendí
henhaooahneh yo igual
+naniccabe I have always though of '' Ni que ocho cuartos'' as '' Not even eight rooms''.
I have always wonder about those '' eight rooms''.
Are they the rooms of a hotel?
Eight fourths. "2 inches instead of one inch".
translation eight fourths. meaning there is only four fourths to make a whole. if somebody is telling you they have eight fourths they're bull s...ing you
The saying "ser más chulo que un ocho" (to be cooler than an eight) has a lot of history. In Madrid, the people in the 19th century used to go to a big park called "La casa de campo" where they spent all the day with the family having a picnic. The richest people went there by tram. The line from the centre to the park was the eighth line, so the poorest people started using the reference of the eight in this expression that is used even nowadays.
GRINGO CON SIDA, WOW, I hadn't heard about that one before, we just say "más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer" :p
yeah, here its "mas vale diablo conocido, que diablo por conocer"
I love these. Here we also say *más hace malo conocido que bueno perdido* Well, it's like *es mejor callarse y parecer tonto que abrir la boca y despejar las dudas*
En españa se dice: "más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer".
Definitivamente el oficial es "más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer"
Mais vale um pássaro na mão do que dois voando....
my stepdad is from Argentina and he says "mas dificil que cagar dentro de una botella"
JAJAJAKA me muero, que mas dice?
"Más difícil que cagar pa dentro."
Yo conozco la versión entera: "Más difícil que cagar en un frasquito...sin ensuciarse los dedos".
Jajajaajj. También: Más aburrido que chupar un clavo
JAJAJAJA ESA ES BUENA XD
You forgot "Por si las moscas" ("For if the flies").
my favorite! I say "for the flies" in english all the time
Por si las Flies in Spanglish
+Anaïs Madera Roldán Woudln't it be: "Just in case of flies".
+Anaïs Madera Roldán For those who want to know, it means ''just in case''
Example: Going to the woods for camping where you know there are bears near *grabs rifle* ''for the flies''
jajjajajaja
"Tirar manteca al techo" Throwing butter to the ceiling, it means you have a lot of money in Argentina.
Tanto nadar para morir en la orilla. (When you work hard for something big and it doesn't work out.)
Tanto pujar para cagar blandito. (when you work and study hard for something and in the end it was really easy)
No calientes la comida si no te la vas a comer. (about flirting and not hooking up)
El que no llora no mama. (if you wanted something you should've asked for it)
El que se pica es porque ají come. (Who gets deffensive when looking for culprits is probably one )
My mom's favorite: Cualquier cosa pasa en Macondo. (I doubt Macondo exist...)
Para los gustos los colores. (Diversity)
Quién te dió velas en este entierro? (family fight, don't interrupt)
Qué hace un burro hablando de orejas? (when someone shit talks a trait on someone they themselves have)
Siempre habla el que menos puede.
Quien se mete a mono pierde el rabo.
Mientras el hacha va y viene. (do something while another task gets completed)
Feo pa la foto y peor para el video.
Me como un cable. (complain about problems)
Sea mi vida gris. (complain/curse)
Moro viejo, mal Cristiano. (people don't change)
Cria fama y acuestate a dormir. (once people have an idea of you, its hard to change, be good or bad)
Matar a cuchillito de palo. (always annoying someone with hurtful comments)
Palo si boga, palo si no boga. (whatever you do is bad for someone)
Otros 20 pesos. (another topic)
Mucho capitán y poco marinero. (many people giving orders and no one does a thing)
These are the ones i can think of from Puerto Rico.
Macondo is where things take place in Gabriel García Marquez's "Cien años de Soledad", so yeah, it's not a real place. The phrase is actually a quote
"Cualquier cosa pasa en Macondo" es de un libro? Huh...se lo tengo que decir then. Thnx!
+Cesar Gonzalez +XxoPrincessSaorioxX actually Macondo is a fictional city based on a small town from colombia call Aracataca #themoreyouknow.
y yo aquí,bailando con la más fea (pasando un mal momento esperando que pase algo bueno)Nadie esta tan mal, que no pueda estar peor.
+Cesar Gonzalez La de "Cualquier cosa pasa en Macondo" es una referencia al Macondo de 100 años de soledad de García Márquez... ahí, efectivamente, cualquier cosa era posible... :D
I'm not a native speaker, but my favorite one I've learned so far is "planchar las orejas"="to iron the ears"="dormir" in Spain. Laughed for a solid 5 minutes the first time I heard it.
Mi abuela solía decir "Dame paciencia y en el culo resistencia"... tiernas abuelitas...
Emmanuel Tannoux jajaja esa no me la sabia pero la tendre que usar algun dia.
+Emmanuel Tannoux Jajajajajaja amo a tu abue.
literal!!!
+Emmanuel Tannoux , en El Salvador algunos dicen "Dios dame paciencia que si me das fuerza lo mato" o sino "Dios mio o te lo llevas o te lo mando"
+Emmanuel Tannoux jajajajajaj este tampoco lo he escuchado. que linda tu abuela, que ternura!!!
In Spanish class we learned the phrase "Él que fue a Sevilla perdío su silla" and the English equivalent is "move your feet lose your seat" so much simpler!
In my country they say "El que se fue a la villa perdio su silla" they mostly say it beacuse of the rhymes, villa rhymes with silla.
is simpler "snooze you loose"
"No desees el mal del vecino, que el tuyo viene de camino" That's one of my favourites
"Árbol que crece torcido, jamás se endereza" xD
My dad always tells me this if I ever walk in front of the tv
"La carne del burro no es transparente"
"El burro hablando de orejas" (For someone whose judging someone else when they do the same ) and the classic Mexican one "No le eches tanta crema a tus tacos" (someone who thinks they're all that ...lol I never noticed we had so many sayings like that in Spanish!
Nery Fuentes The venezuelan version of the burro one is the one that Joanna said in the video: Cachicamo diciéndole a morrocoy conchudo (armadillo calling a tortoise shelly)
+Nery Fuentes de colombia es creo por lo menos en el norte: "El burro burlandose del cerdo por ser orejon y el elefante riendose" "the donkey making fun of pig for its big ears and the elephant laughing"
+Nery Fuentes In Spain we have "apártate, que me tiznas, dijo la sartén al cazo..."
+roberto martinez In PR we say un burro hablando de orejas
+Nery Fuentes
In English is: "Like kettle calling the pot black"
'Un pelo de concha tira más que una yunta de bueyes'
'A pussy hair pulls a lot more than an oxen'
+Maxi Jano Haha, I like that one
Tiran más dos tetas que dos carretas- Peninsular variation :)
+Pau Nuns Jalan más dos tetas que un par de carretas jaja así me la sabía yo
+Maxi Jano Jala mas un par de chichis que un par de mulas.
+Maxi Jano A shell hair?
+Maxi Jano tira mas un pelo de figa ( pussy) que una maroma de barco
my favorite:
''qué tiene que ver el culo con las pestañas?'' (venezuelan)
''what does the ass have to do with the eyelashes?''
meaning two things that don't relate to one another in any way
En España decimos "No confundas la velocidad con el tocino" o "No confundas Churras con Merinas"
wow lilly, i don't want to sound silly, but you are really a beatull woman (y), greetings from Venezuela!
en argentina se dice "que tiene que ver el culo con el ombligo?"
In Colombia is ¿Qué tiene que ver el caldo con las tajadas?
En mi casa se dice "qué tienen que ver los cojones para comer trigo?"
What about "No hay mal que por bien no venga" How would you translate that?
+martinbeco theres no bad that doesnt come for good? wow thats pretty complicate to traslate lmao
+martinbeco There is no good without the bad
So would that be like No pain No gain?
Pamela felicie, Thank you for the explanation I really appreciate you.
+martinbeco "its not so bad"
Al pan, pan. Al vino, vino. Y a tu papaya mi pepino. :v
Diego Bahena jajajaja, te salio "pajita pulenta"... that's a Peruvian slang 😂
AL pan, pan. Al vino, Toro
Viva México!
Diego Bahena waaaaakala!
Lagrimas de cocodrilo
Ivan Gomez pero en inglés ese saying si es común, dicen croc tears para exactamente lo mismo.
What does that even mean?
Amor T. That they tears are fake or their "suffering emotion" is fakelike to manipulate you or something. dunno the times I have said it you expres you are not sympathetic with their feeling example you have a fight boyfriend over he kissed a girl or cheated and he is all criying and saying he is sorry that would never happen blab la bla and just say “croc tears man its to late to be sorry fuck
you and that bitch etc etc”
Lol thaks for the explanation!
Amor T. You've never heard this saying? In Spanish or English? Aren't you Latina?
"La cabra tira al monte" The goat goes to the mountain (but literally it translates as "The goat THROWS to the mountain"). It means that some kind of people are never gonna change, ever.
"Éramos pocos y parió la abuela..."
+Tita Lore mi favorito! jajaja
+Tita Lore Cuanta mas masa mejor se pasa.
Pablo, "éramos pocos y parió la abuela (o parió la burra)" es una queja. "Cuanta más masa mejor se pasa" es como "Contra más seamos, más reiremos", y tiene una connotación de diversión.
ya jajaja por eso lo puse para hacerte la réplica xD
el que se fue a la villa, perdio su silla
+Lucho Marinelli estilo mexicano: el que se apendeja dios lo deja
en España el que se fue a Sevilla perdió su silla
+Saneli Carbajal Vigo El que se va para Barranquilla pierde su silla. En Colombia. Mil maneras.
+Lucho Marinelli El que se fue a Sevilla, perdió su silla....
+Lucho Marinelli en ecuatoriano: el que se fue a Quito perdiò su banquito
why is there a D in the fridge but not a refrigerator
Favourite episode! I also grew up speaking both languages and I thought I was the only one who noticed and got so confused about Spanish and its infinite amount of sayings that even though I am fluent my brain feels like is frying as I try to understand spanish sayings, its worse than riddles, if you do not speak Spanish you have no idea how conplicaticated Spanish sayings are, its like learning spanish in spanish, its worse than algebra...I get so amazed as a kid and still to this day in my late 20s when my mom and other relatives in 1 , 2 seconds explain to me a saying or hear them quote them ! How do they remember all these things? Spanish sayings and many Spanish so gs are fucked , they're like fables, mysteries and metaphorical... Does anyone agree ? lol
Joanna I love you! but what I want to know more than anything is who’s the guy you’re always speaking with? show his face! make a video with him perhaps?
I'm pretty sure he's that guy with glasses that's in other Flama videos.
+Christopher James Kris will be in a Joanna Rants soon... I just have to convince him.
no escupas pa' rriba que te puede caer la saliba en la cara ... basically don't judge people because you can end up doing the same thing.
Traditional Castillian versión: "El que escupe al cielo, a la cara le cae".
This one is old. I think the saying was brought to Spain from the Middle East.
my mom says that to me all of the time
I knew it that way, and like it a way better.
this can also be relatable with the famous karma, like "don't do something you will regret"
You want absurd Spanish sayings, grow up with a Dominican mother from El Campo.
+Tone Riggz Here is some llanero sayings. "A Cagar en cacho e' chivo y limpiarse con él". "Shit on a goat's horn and then wipe with it"
+Reyd dus omfg!! esa está buena.
"cada quien conoce la tusa de su nalga"
+Darby M Here in the south of Spain we also shorten words, don't pronounce some words, etc. But we know how to write them right, you know
+Darby M obviamente no vas ha hablar con el mismo vocabulario en una entrevista de trabajo que en una reunión familiar con tus amigos. Yo también soy Dominicana y se diferenciar cuando si y cuando no. No tiene que ver de donde seas.
Definitely you have to make a second part of this.
Definitivamente tienes que hacer una segunda parte de esto.
A caballo regalado no se le miran los dientes
You don't look at the teeth of a horse that was a gift.
Which is basically not complaining fro what you get.
And in Argentina Tirar manteca al techo (throw butter to the ceiling) ist to waste money because butter used to be really expensive and having enough to throw it away meant you had money? I know, it's messed up
"Más jala un pelo e' cuca que una guaya"... I don't need to explain that! (sorry)
Gabriel Bracho AJAJAJAJA ESTE ES EL MEJOR
+Gabriel Bracho jajajajajaja Noo xD
+Gabriel Bracho me explicas no entiendo .(
Pero ese no rima! Mola más "tiran más dos tetas que dos carretas".
+DarqueChocoholic mucha razón y eso que soy de México jaja
Well what we Germans tell our kids when they hurt themselves doesn't make any fucking sense either. In roughly translates into :" Heal, heal, after just seven days of rain and seven days of snow it won't hurt anymore"
Crazy right? Are you telling me that that little scratch will hurt for two damn weeks ?
hahaha can you write it in German?
Maria Padilla
Sure ;D Heile, heile Segen, sieben Tage Regen, sieben Tage Schnee, und schon tut's nicht mehr weh
"Mejor solo que mal acompañado" , that's another one, like, "it's better being alone than being with people you hate" ( i'm spanish, yea, I know my English is bad, sorry, I'm learning ;) )
Evangelina Garramuño mieux vaut être seul que mal accompagné in French 😜
I react same as her in "No es que Maria estaba lavando los platos y se le acabo el jabon" I´m mexican but really I said "what the f*ck is that mean xD
+RICHTER GONMART What does that mean? I've never heard that before xD
+Daniella Uribe I THINK it's used when there's a problem and is like "is not something insignificant" or something like that but i don't know 😂
I think it is like "cuando la puerca se quiere bañar, se le acaba el jabón y el agua" which means: "when a pig wants to take a shower, there aren't soap and water". And that means something like when you're going to do something, you have an excuse for not doing it
I'm Argentinean and I've never heard that saying. Here we would say "it's nobody's death" ( no es la muerte de nadie) or "it's not the Turkish man's death" ( no es la muerte del turco)
+RICHTER GONMART Yo soy de ecuador y estoy igual .-.
Anyone here knows the program Como dice el Dicho? XD
Monica Ayala meh
Monica Ayala Yessssss
If you do not know it, you failed as a Latino xDDD
¡Chao pescado!
Having to translate this to none Chileans is a bit strange.
Bye fishy!
Ese tiene un equivalente en inglés: "See you later, alligator"
Especially when you probably pronounce it "Chao pekao". :P
lol yeah
calabaza, pa' la casa.
We have a similar one where I'm from in Spain that's Chao bacalao
you forgot the last part of the water one... "nunca digas de ese agua no beberé y ese cura no es mi padre"
Intentaré no repetir los que he leido ya:
*Más contento q muchacho comiendo moco (Happier than a toddler eating boogers)
*Quien no llora no mama (who doesn't cry doesn't suck tit?)
*Se te van a quemar las tajadas (you´ll burn the tajadas)
*Andar con una mano alante y la otra atrás (beeing with one hand in front and the other behind)
*Más peligroso que barbero con hipo (more dangerous than a barber with hiccups)
*En tierra de ciegos el tuerto es el rey (in the land of the blinds, the one with one eye is king)
*El ojo del amo engorda el ganado (the master's eye fattens the cattle)
*mas lago que peo de culebra (longer than a snake's fart)
*mas aburrido que partida de ajedrez por la radio (more boring than a chess game on the radio)
Lorena Felipe Rodríguez moriiii de la risa con el de en tierra de ciegos el tuerto es rey
+Lorena Felipe Rodríguez Y todos tienen sentido jajaja ¡Esto es Cádiz y aquí hay que mamar"
Jajaja me encanta el de Maria y ramón! Los otros también los usamos en vzla! buenisimos! Daniel M
+Lorena Felipe Rodríguez
He/She is blowing your stake. Caught with your hands in the dough
Paisas from Colombia have some good ones. "Paila", for instance. A "paila" is a cooking pot; that's it, just a cooking pot. What does it actually mean in our weird mountain dialect? It means you're screwed. How? I don't fucking know. But hey, at least it's concise, it's not some short tale involving animals and shit, lol
+Andrés Cifuentes
Bitch please "Bruta la cartera"
Juan Manuel Castrillón No one says that anymore, though. Unless they're joking, lol.
***** Wait, you don't speak spanish?
Si, pero como los comentarios acá están en inglés, pues pensé que era más apropiado, lol. Soy paisa de pura cepa, aunque el acento no me sale ni a palo, haha.
***** Ahora que lo pensó debe ser porque si no te gusta algo y es lo que hay te dan con una paila (???)
2:08 "Más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer" así lo conozco yo.
"Salto lejos el maní" means the peanut jumped far away and means that someone hear the conversation that you were talking with another person
En Inglés se dice grass/walls have ears.
"A cada cochino le llega su sábado". Ni idea de cómo ponerlo en inglés, Joanna Hausmann
***** "Every hog has its saturday" (???)
Saturday's were the day they butchered them
***** A cada cerdito le llega su noche buega
***** Si de hecho es colombia es "A cada marrano le llega su noche buena" in English "Each pig gets its Christmas Eve" because on Christmas Eve we eat Lechona (stuffed pig)
***** Every Peppa has it's saturday.
En Inglés también hay cosas que no tienen sentido, o no van al caso, como:
Facebook, ¿para una red social? ¿Caralibro?
Apple? ¿qué tiene que ver con una empresa?
TH-cam? ¿TúTubo?
Playboy? ¿Jueganiño?
+Julio Alexander jajajajajajajajajajjaja
*I'm sorry but my Spanish is not so good so I'll just write in English. The "Apple" company was named after Alan Turing, the man who invented the first computer. Turing loved eating apples. Nevertheless, because he was gay at the time when it was literally illegal to be gay, he was sentenced to two years of hormonal therapy, and a year after being sentenced he committed suicide by eating a poisoned apple. A bitten apple was found near his dead body, so the company took this motive and made it their logo :)
Don't believe everything you read on the internet. In Steve Jobs' biography it's explained and that's not the reason
Playboy se le dice a un hombre que le gusta jugar con las muejeres.
So...you're not telling us the reason?
Me gusta eat la ketchup con arroz thank you gracias xDDD Is that a thing?? Do people eat ketchup with rice??
em, yo?
+Hawk Sandwich yep, also with pink sauce ( don´t now the tranlation for "salsa rosada")
+Hawk Sandwich Yeah actually, it tastes really good.
+Hawk Sandwich in Venezuela it's kind of common jajaja
Laura Franco Pos no en los estados unidos .-.
"más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo"
more knows the devil for old than for being the devil.
"Ese Huevo quiere Sal!!!!" (meaning "He/She's asking for it")
Donde manda capitán no manda marinero- El burro no coje por lindo coje por insistente- El pez por la boca muere- El que no llora no mama- Calavera no chilla- A caballo regalado no se le mira los dientes- de Argentina. Saludos!
"Mejor india conocida que gringa con sida" jua, jua. Ese no me lo sabía.
+henhaooahneh De pana que yo tampoco hasta que mi amiga Peruana me lo conto
+Joanna Hausmann en Colombia decimos: más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer
+Melissa Corzo En Argentina también lo decimos así :)
En México lo he escuchado como: "Más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer".
"mejor malo conocido que bueno por conocer" se dice no?
In Norway people like to say «det gikk nord og ned», which in English would be «It went northwards and down». It basically means that the situation went to hell.
How about " Ablando del rel de roma, Ay viene el burro que se asoma"
Lol I still don't understand what that means, my mom says it all the time
+marly rod It´s like "Speaking about the devil" when someone that you are talking about appears suddenly and unexpected.
+DarkShadowAlpha2.1 Hablando del reY de roma, AHÍ viene el burro que se asoma
porque como dice el dicho: donde hubo piedras, cenizas quedan porque perro que ladra se lo lleva la corriente.
You like to eat ketchup with rice😂😂 I’m taking a Spanish class right now so I’m happy I got that!
Im Brazilian and my mom used to always tell me "Leite quente faz dor de dente especialmente os dentes da frente" which translated to "Hot milk makes your teeth hurt especially the front ones" to this day I have no idea what it means. Maybe it has something to do with not rushing into things too quickly
-Entre beso y beso se asoma el sin hueso
-Argentina 2019
lol
Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo. (Devil knows best from being old than from being the devil)
Which means that the age is the best teacher. Or that the experience is more important than the intelligence.
My grandma's favorite saying so we listen to her, lol.
My favorite one, I'm from chile
But this is the same as Better The Devil You Know... or not?? :S
No, in that case, it would be: Más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer.
jajajaja el primer dicho es "camaron que se duerme, se lo lleva la corriente" jajaja
huehuebr
camarao de dorme, a onda leva
"Allá donde cayó el avión"- "The place where the plane fell down", is used to talk about a far away place.
"Largo como semana sin galleta"- "As long as a week without cookies", used to talk about a hard and/or endless period.
"Como pez en el agua"- "Like fish under the sea", means confortable.
"Como sapo de otro pozo"- "like a frog from another lake", means unconfortable.
"Cabecita de novia"- "Head of a bride", used to talk about a person who is always distracted.
"El que se fue a Sevilla, perdio su silla"- "The guy who went to Sevilla, lost his chair". Something like if you don't take the opportunity you'll loose it.
Mas complicado que la cagada de un tullido. That one's my favorite.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Jajajajaja ok bye
+Norma Chavez tullido is like a disabled person, like someone in a wheelchair.
nica? :v
someone who can't poo hahaha
The english language also has some folksy non-sense sayings of it's own:
1-"Until the cows come home" means "To wait a really long time"
2-"To keep them at bay" means "To keep them away"
3-"Better the devil that you know" means "Trust those you already know"
4-"To bury the hatchet" means "To make peace with someone"
5-"Out of the blue" means "All of a sudden"
6-"Don't put all your eggs in one basket" means "Don't try to do it all at once" or "Don't take all your chances on one bet"
Number 4 and 5 also exist in German, like almost literal translations of it.
4- The "hatchet" started with a novel portraying Native American traditions. According to Wiktionary, it's also used in French, Dutch, Swedish and Russian.
5- "Blue" for blue sky as in the unknown (domain). In German you can also "(shoot/talk/drive) into the blue" meaning "(...) without purpose/aim". Apparently there's even a specific juristic term using this saying. And you can "lie/promise/tell the blue out of the sky (down)" meaning you're lying and making up everything you tell another person.
German sayings:
4- "Das Kriegsbeil/ Die Streitaxt begraben"
5- "Aus dem Blauen (heraus)"
5a- "Ins Blaue (hinein)"
5b- "Behauptung ins Blaue hinein"
5c- "Das Blaue vom Himmel (herunter)lügen/ versprechen/ erzählen"
Ya va! No puede faltar: ni tan calvo ni con dos pelucas! Hahahahaha it's always funny to hear my grandma saying that!!!
+Iryu-Carlos Rosendo Mi abuelita always says that!
Joanna Hausmann Dejó la peluca
+Joanna Hausmann siempre recuerdo en un examen de filosofía en la universidad nos preguntaron quien había dicho esa frase (o algo relacionado con eso) y nadie lo recordaba... creo que fue Aristóteles... Aunque luego cuestioné que si en la época de Aristóteles existieran pelucas o usaran ese término...
"Nunca digas de esta agua nunca beberé" - " Never say you will never drink this water "actually makes a lot of sense. It takes longer than "never say never" but by using water it reminds us that although we may not be thirsty right now, we may later get thirsty enough to drink anything we can lay hands on. The shortest answer is not always the best.
"No hay mal que por bien no venga"
"Tu no mojas pero empapas"
"Los niños hablan cuando las gallinas mean"
"Me etas llenando la cachimba de tiera."
"No tapes el sol con un dedo.
"No llegarle las patas al culo"
"Dime con quien andas y te dire quien eyes"
"Al mal tiempo buena cara"
*Sorry for the spelling my keyboard is on English & it keeps attempting to correct it. Unfortunately i'm unable to make the necessary changes bc it's my work computer**
¿estos dos qué signfican? "Los niños hablan cuando las gallinas mean"
"Me estás llenando la cachimba de tiera." Nunca los escuché.
"Los niños hablan cuando las gallinas mean" Las gallinas no mean, los intestinos y el aparato urinario de las aves desembocan por un solo conducto (Frase empleada contra los niños que hablan cuando no les corresponde”.) Ej: “Tú cállate, que los niños hablan cuando mean las gallinas”.
"Me estás llenando la cachimba de tierra." Esta si se me hace difícil explicar... la "cachimba" termina por llenarse cuando la paciencia se quiebra. Ej: Niño traviesos acaban con la paciencia de los padres.
TheQUBANQT
Mirá vos, muy informativo. Gracias.
I love my Spanish sayings! They're more metaphorical, put your mind to work, make you think. I see this in sayings from other countries as well. English sayings are just lazy.
``Estoy a dos velas´´ I am at two candles that means I have no money; ``Llorar como una magdalena´´ Cry like a madeleine that means cry a lot, ``Vete a freír esparragos ´´ go and fry asparragus that means Get lost! and one that I still don´t understand ``te quiero como la trucha al trucho´´ I love you like the female trout to the trout.
es porque se suele decir "te quiero mucho, como la trucha al trucho" y como rima, pues se dice jajaja
"Estar a dos velas" also means to not have sex in a long time...
+TheStOne true story!
+Ruth “Fay” Saborido a freír espárragos??!?!?! I say a freír churros. who fries asparragus??
Everyone that wants someone out! Probably someone also vegetarian and very concerned about the grease of the churros haha
I always liked the "Blanco y en botella? Leche" which translates to "White and in a bottle? Milk", which is used when stating something very obvious.
...No es lo mismo el encaje negro que un negro te la encaje...
Keto Rolac hahaha yo había escuchado. No es lo mismo un metro de encaje negro, a que un negro te encaje un metro hahahha
No es lo mismo huele a traste que a traste huele. 😂😂😂
No es lo mismo cocinar a baño María, que cocinar a Maria en el baño
"Donde el diablo perdio el poncho" where the devil lost his poncho= dangerous place in Chile
Si eso se dice para hablar de algo que está lejos, en españa el equivalente sería "donde cristo perdió la zapatilla" xD
"Donde el viento se da vuelta" (el lugar es peligroso y lejano)
E Bolivia eso es un lugar lejano y que casi nadie conoce
I know this one "donde el diablo dejó tirado su caite" It basically means a place far, far, far away, don't ask why xD
LOL!
Donde cristo perdió el mechero "where Christ lost the lighter" to say that somethig is very far away
Mas liado que la pata un romano "more tied than a roman leg" to say you are busy
en chile es "Donde el diablo perdió el poncho" a compración con venezuela solo cambia la prenda de vestir, pero significa lo mismo, que un lugar está muy lejos.
Nosotros en Honduras usamos "donde en diablo perdió la chancleta" (espero que chancleta no signifique otra cosa en cualquier otro país jejejeje) de nuevo lo que cambia es la prenda de vestir...
+Alba Marina Rodas Garache ajajaj no lo se, aqui en Chile chancleta al menos los significados que yo conozco son 2, chancleta como sandalia (calzado) y chancleta como se le llama a las hijas mujeres, por ejemplo: un hombre que ha engendrado en una mujer solamente hijas y ningun varon, se le dice que es un "chancletero" XD
+Valentina Sepulveda nosotros usamos chancleta como calzado, no sabía que en Chile tuviera ese otro significado jajajaja siempre se conoce algo nuevo... :P
Something that my mum used to use a lot was:
"Te calmas o te calmo"
In spain we use these:
Me lo ha dicho un pajarito (I was told by a little bird) when you know something you shouldn't know about a person and they ask you how you know that
No le pidas peras al olmo (don't ask the elm for pears) when something is impossible
Estar entre Pinto y Valdemoro (to be between pinto and valdemoro -regions in madrid) when you have two options and you don't know which you should take
Estar entre la espada y la pared (to be between the sword and the wall) basically, to be f*cked up, or in some cases, it has the same meaning than above
Deja de mirar las musarañas (stop looking at the shrews) you're told this -everyday at elementary school- when you stay way too much time looking at nowhere
And so on, it is true there's a kind of obsession with animals xd
PInto y Valdemoro son dos pueblos colindantes del sur de Madrid.
"Habló de puta la tacones", "donde Cristo perdió la chancla", "o follamos todos o la puta al río", ...
Realmente los dichos que has dicho son latinoamericanos pero he aquí algunos peores:
-Si la mona se viste de seda mona se queda
-Cuando el grajo vuela bajo hace un frío del carajo
-A caballo regalado no le mires el diente
aunque la mona se vista de seda...
+Yery En otros casos también le dicen "a caballo regado no se le mira el colmillo" no te quejes de las cosas que te regalan, o no le busques errores a las cosas que te regalan porque los caballos no tienen colmillos.
+Yery A los caballos se les puede ver la edad en la dentadura, de ahí el dicho. No veas que tan viejo es el caballo si te lo están regalando.
Cuando el grajo vuela bajo hace un frio del carajo, y sin son los gorriones hace un frío de cojones XD
en serio sientes que esos son malos dichos?
My abuelita used to always say.... Con paciencia y calma el burro sube a la palma (With patience and calmness the donkey climbs the palm tree)
Thats a soft Way of the saying "con paciencia y con saliva el burro se cogió a la hormiga"
+Mariano Cipriota En España es parecido: con paciencia y saliva, el elefante se la metió a la hormiga
Mariano Cipriota You guys are fucked up 0.o
+jman6866 The moment o saw "Cogió la hormiga" I started laughing so fucking hard that was hilarious.
Sin ser soez (cosa tipicamente española) Todo se hace con tiempo y una caña
Without being vulgar (which typically Spanish) everything is done with time and a cane
"Nunca digas de esta agua no beberé" es porque el dicho completo dice "Nunca digas de esta agua no beberé porque el camino es largo y te puede dar sed. Significa que la vida es larga y no sabemos lo que puede pasar ni cuando necesitemos hacer lo que decimos que nunca haremos.
Ponete las pilas 😂😂😂
o: ponle canoa.
ponte*
Nailsun U. Ponte trucha
Nailsun U. Ponte almeja
I love that phrase * ponte
its not absurd its just an another language :I
example:
-here smells fishy
-aqui hay gato encerrado
Weird sayings: 1- A buenas horas, mangas verdes. 2- Hasta mayo, no te quites el sayo. 3- Cuando el grajo vuela bajo, hace un frío del carajo. 4- Meterse en camisa de once varas.
There are a lot of historical sayings that have their own explanations and there are even some books with all those idomatic expressions.
We love analogies.
By the way, guess this one: "Candil de la calle, oscuridad de la casa" = Street lamp post, house's darkness.
@TheIndelibleCaptain Nope. It's usually told to people that don't help people like family or close friends; but when that kind of people are around strangers or people outside a close circle, they are willing to do anything for them.
"Candil" is a lamp. A bright street lamp (outside home), but in its home (where it's important) is pitch black dark.
I just know 2 or 3 of them, where the fuck did you got the other ones from??? must be out of mexico :/
Si te pones a pensar que cada ciudad tiene sus dichos... Si son de aquí xD
+Cerveza J.R. Ahhh okay y de donde sos bebé :v o eres un chico >_< ewwww xD
soy de mexico
XD
Almost all of the ones she mentioned are said in Michoacán
I'm Mexican and the only one I heard before was the frog one
"Hablo de puta la tacones" We say this in spain, i love this one (The one with the high heels talked about whores) it means acusing someone for something you also do.
+luis martin robles el mismo en México es, "El burro hablando de orejas"xD
Mola aprender estas cosas jajaja
+luis martin robles Nunca lo había oído, es buenísimo xD
+luis martin robles in Venezuela we say "cachicamo llamando a morrocoy conchuo'" which is something like "the armadillo calling a tortoise shelly"
In English "the pot calling the kettle black"
como decian mis ancestros, "Más vale paja en mano que cien guaguas llorando".
Qui Gon Il Si ,lo dijeras en Cuba, no tendría sentido. Guagua : Autobus-Transporte publico
Aqui es: mas vale pajaro en mano que cien volando.
No se que es guagua😅
Let me help you understand this one. The direct translation would be “ better have come on you hands, than a hundred babies crying”
" Chocolate por la noticia" it's something we say in Argentina when someone tells you something that you already knew or that is really obvious, and it translates as "chocolate for the news"
i feel like this is the Latin buzzfeed lmao
Me cago en la leche = I shit on the milk. I'm Spanish and don't even know what is that about 😂😂
Es demasiado malsonante.
La frase entera es: Me cago en la leche que mamaste. No quiero ni traducir eso al inglés porque esta gente se endemonia por cualquier cosa y más los yanquis.
I shit on the milk your mother breastfeeded you!
+Archibald Hadock No necesariamente
Si queres leche fresca pone la vaca a la sombra
if you want fresh Milk, put the cow in the shadow
¿En español normal, por favor?
+ZhangtheGreat ¿qué es español o mejor dicho castellano normal?
Hernán T quieres*
+Boris Medrano in argentina it isn't quieres
***** jajaja ¿quieres? Que sos de televisa? Jajajaja
Because I'm watching you so much, I'm now getting ads for beer in Spanish... Wtf google ads?..