Soplar y sorber no puede junto ser.One cannot blow and swallow at the same time.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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No es nada, sino que matan a mi marido.It is nothing, they are only thrashing my husband.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesRuego de grande fuerza es que te hace.A great man’s entreaty is a command.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesComo costal de carbonero, malo de fuera, peor de dentro.Like a collier’s sack, bad without and worse within.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesResfriadas duelen mas las llagas.Wounds pain most when grown cool.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien fia ó promete, en deuda se mete.He who pledges or promises runs in debt.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHurtar el puerco, y dar los pies por Dios.To steal the pig, and give away the pettitoes for God’s sake.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPiensan los enamorados que tienen los otros los ojos quebrados.Lovers think that others have no eyes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo te tomes con el ollero, que del burro hace dinero.Don’t scuffle with the potter, for he makes money by the damage.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hay tal madre como la que pare.There is no mother like the mother that bore us
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa codicia rompe el saco.Covetousness bursts the bag.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesUn agravio consentido, otro venido.One grievance borne, another follows.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa mas ruin oveja se ensucia en la colodra.The worst ewe dungs in the milking-pail.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien en una piedra dos veces tropieza, no es maravilla se quiebre la cabeza.No wonder if he breaks his head who stumbles twice over one stone.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSer mercader mas va en el cobrar, que en el vender.To be a merchant, the art consists more in getting paid than in making sales.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe potro sarnoso buen caballo hermoso.A scabby colt may make a good horse.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTirar coces contra el aguijon.To kick against the pricks.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHambre y frio entregan al hombre á su enemigo.Hunger and cold give a man up to his enemy
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLleva tu la arteza, marido, que yo llevaré el cedaço, que pesa como el diablo.Do you carry the trough, husband, and I will carry the sieve, which is as heavy as the devil.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA las veces lleva el hombre á su casa con que llore.A man may hap to bring home with him what makes him weep.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTomar la ocasion por los cabellos.To take opportunity by the forelock.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVende público y compra secreto.Sell publicly and buy privately.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA quien hace casa, ó se casa, la bolsa le quede rasa.He who builds a house, or marries, is left with a lank purse.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien sirve no es libre.He who serves is not free.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources