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Popular spanish sayings V

Literal translation: “From saying to fact, there is a stretch”. Meaning: just like in English, saying something and doing it are very different things. Talk is cheap.

Literal translation: “The shrimp that sleeps is taken by the current”. Meaning: if you snooze, you lose.

Camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente.

Literal translation: “Let foolish words fall on deaf ears”. Meaning: don’t pay attention to negative things that people say about you.

Literal translation: “Do good, and don’t look at whom”. Meaning: do what you think is right, no matter what people think.

Meaning: Each person knows their own limitations, problems and what’s best for themselves.