- Llamar al pan pan y al vino vino
(to call bread bread and wine wine)
to call a spade a spade
- Tener la sarte'n por el mango
(To have the frying pan by the handle)
To run the show
- Andar pisando huevos
(To walk stepping on eggs)
To tread on thin ice
- Faltarle a uno tornillo
(to have a screw missing)
to be nuts
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- Empezar la casa por el tejado
(to start building the house at the roof)
to put the cart befor the horse
- Saber latin
(to know Latin)
to be nobody's fool
- El mundo es un panuelo
(the world is a hankerchief)
it's a small world
- Llenar la cabeza de pajaritos
(to fill the head with little birds)
to fill somone's head with empty talk
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