Aprendiz de Portugal, no sabe cozer y quiere cortar.A Portuguese apprentice who can’t sew, yet would be cutting out.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Quien tuviere hijo varon, no llame á otro ladron.He who has a son grown up should not call another a thief.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl buey bravo en tierra agena se hace manso.The fierce ox becomes tame on strange ground.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien solo come su gallo, solo ensille su caballo.He that eats his fowl alone may saddle his horse alone.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesJurado ha el vano de negro no hacer blanco.The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAntes que cases, mira que haces, que no es ñudo que deshaces.Before you marry, beware, for it is a knot difficult to untie.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDe amigo reconciliado, guarte de él como del diablo.Beware of a reconciled friend as of the devil.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor sol que haga no dexes tu capa en casa.However bright the sun may shine, leave not your cloak at home.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHarto es ciego quien no vee por tela de cedazo.He is blind enough who cannot see through a sieve
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa sangre sin fuego hierve.Blood boils without fire.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDonde una puerta se cierra, otra se abre.Where one door is shut another opens.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAdó vas, duelo? Adó suelo.Whither goest thou, sorrow? Whither I am used to go.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo peor del pleito es, que de uno nacen ciento.The worst of a lawsuit is that out of one there grow a hundred.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPedir sobrado por salir con lo mediano.Ask too much to get enough.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA mengua de pan, buenas son tortas.When you can’t get bread, oat-cakes are not amiss.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesArremángose mi nuera, y trastornó en el fuego la caldera.My daughter-in-law tucked up her sleeves, and upset the kettle into the fire.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLas malas nuevas siempre son ciertas.Bad news is always true.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor nuevas no peneas, hacerse han viejas, y saber las has.Do not fret for news, it will grow old and you will know it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPorfia mata la caza.Perseverance kills the game.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAndando y hablando, marido, á la horca.Talk as you go, husband, to the gallows.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA la muger y á la picaza, lo que dirias en la plaza.To a woman and a magpie tell your secrets in the marketplace.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesUn ruin mientras mas lo ruegan mas se estiende.The more you court a clown the statelier he grows.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSalamon pasó por su puerta quando nació, mas no entró dentro.When he was born, Solomon passed by his door, and would not go in.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNi judio necio, ni liebre perezosa.No Jew a fool; no hare lazy.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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