Browsing Catalan idioms the other day in search of the quirky, the bizarre, the downright weird – well, the bloggable - I came upon a list of food-related ones and – oh, how could I have forgotten: s’ha acabat el bròquil. The broccoli has finished. Which means – said in a voice that brooks no [...]
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From Paquita
Tienes más peligro que [...]
The Spanish are hugely fond of metaphorically defecating in and on all kinds of unsuitable surfaces and recipients. The least alarming is the sea. Me cago en la mar, I shit in the sea. Or for those of more gentile disposition, me cachis en la mar, or even just me cachis …. I euphemistically shit [...]
According to Jackie Corley, writer and publisher of WordRiot.org, in an interview featured at the super Absolute Write, with practice, anyone can become a wordsmith. “But it takes something more to be a writer. It takes cajones.”
Yeah, right.
Cojones is the body part of choice used to express such diverse states and activities as literally [...]
