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Many Spanish proverbs have a long history of cultural diffusion; there are proverbs, for example, that have their origin traced to Ancient Babylon and that have been transmitted culturally to Spain during the period of classical antiquity; equivalents of the Spanish proverb “En boca cerrada no entran moscas” (Silence is golden, literally "Flies cannot enter a closed mouth") belong to the ...
Expression of admiration, to say that something is outstanding or beyond good. [26] revolú Used to describe chaotic situations. [9] servirse con la cuchara grande to get away with murder or to get away with it soplapote a nobody, or a worker low on the hierarchy, or an enabler [27] tapón traffic jam. In standard Spanish, "a bottle top" or "a ...
Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy): Spanish: Limpia, fija y da Esplendor (Cleans, fixes and gives shine) Royal Society: Nullius in verba (On the word of no one) South African Museum: Semper aliquid novi Africa affert (Africa is always producing some novelty) Swedish Academy: Swedish: Snille och Smak (Talent and taste)
Eva Longoria declared that Kamala Harris’ success is “our success” before sharing a version of an iconic campaign slogan for the vice president’s 2024 bid ahead of Harris’ speech at the ...
In other words, the gods have ideas different from those of mortals, and so events do not always occur in the way persons wish them to. Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, 2: 428. Also cf. "Man proposes and God disposes" and "My Thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways", Isaiah 55, 8–9. dis manibus sacrum (D.M.S.) Sacred to the ghost-gods
The best slogans may be fun and catchy, but they're rarely true ... until now. Redditors recently took a brutally honest approach to branding, reimagining more than a dozen taglines.
The slogan was initially associated with the Chicano counterculture of the 1960s, and figured prominently in the Mexican-American anti-war movement, as a slogan in opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. [3] [4] It later became more broadly used throughout Mexican and Mexican-American culture.
The only way to understand a woman is to love her; The old wooden spoon beats me down; The only way to find a friend is to be one; The pen is mightier than the sword; The pot calling the kettle black; The proof of the pudding is in the eating; The rich get richer and the poor get poorer; The road to Hell is paved with good intentions