Speaking Spanish: funny phrases and sayings

When learning a language, it is often helpful to have a small pool of common phrases. Instantly understood and useful in many circumstances, memorizing some of these short sentences increases confidence in your ability to communicate naturally in various situations. They are also usually quite funny and, although not all of them can be translated directly, they all have their equivalent sayings in English. .

Long term / short term

Long-term and short-term: they are used as they would be used in English.

Who goes wrong, ends badly

He who lives in disorder comes to a bad end. This could be compared to living by the sword, dying by the sword.

Raise Cain

Literally this means yelling loud enough to reach the sky, but in English one would only hit the ceiling.

to die with the boots on

While the saying literally means to die with your boots on, it can be compared to the English phrase to die in the saddle. In other words, die working hard.

It is good to speak, but it is better to be silent

Speech is good, but silence is better. Similar to ‘silence is golden’ in English, where advice means keeping your own advice. thought.

Not by much getting up early it dawns earlier

Like the fable of the tortoise and the hare, this saying has the meaning of slow and steady wins the race.

new Year New Life

New year, new life, as you might expect, this saying is used to welcome the New Year.

Very hungry, there is no stale bread

This feeling is similar to that beggars cannot choose or hunger makes good cooking the most direct translation for those who are very hungry, no bread is too difficult.

It’s something; less is nothing.

Something is something, less is nothing, or, as we might say in English, half of something is better than nothing.

Like (what) back there back his fourThis translates literally as two and two make four, although we are more likely to say as safe as the day is long or as safe as the gun is iron or any of the similar phrases that exist for this sentiment in English.

I hope this short sample of popular Spanish phrases encourages you to stick with the Spanish course you have chosen to take.

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