sayings-or-proverbs

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Quan el verdum ba_ixa a la plana, a_ixopluga't a la cabana. 'When the greenfinch comes down the plain, look for a shelter in the hut.'

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Quan vegis ba_ixar el rupit, posa una flassada al llit. 'When you see the robin redbreast coming, put a blanket in the bed.'

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Per Sant Joan, tot ne_ix i tot cre_ix. 'Around Saint John, everything is born and everything grows.'

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El que no mata engre_ixa i el que no fa cré_ixer. 'This what does not kill and does not make grow makes gain weight.'

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Dit_xós el mes que entra amb panellets i acaba amb gre_ixets. 'The luckiest is the month which enters with little marzipan cakes and leaves with fat.'

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Valen més dues que_ixalades de vaca que set de patata. 'Two bites of cow are worth more than seven bites of potato.'

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Abans dels anta (quaranta, cinquanta, se_ixanta...) res no espanta, però en arribar als anta ja es decanta. 'Before the anta (forty, fifty, sixty…) nothing scares you, but once you reach the anta one starts going down (in Catalan, the suffix for the tens is -anta but not for ten, twenty and thirty. The saying means that till that age you are strong after reaching the age of forty you start to decline)'.

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Vent de Ripollès, ni plou ni aclare_ix, però quan s'hi posa, s'hi cone_ix. 'The wind from the Ripollès, neither rains nor clears, but when it comes it is noticed.'

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Qui molt _xerra, algunes n'erra. 'Who talks a lot, sometimes errs.'

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Sant Eloi quan era _xic era noi, de mitjà va ésser manyà, de mitjancer va ésser serraller i de gran va ésser sant. 'Saint Eloi was boy when he was a child, locksmith assistant when he was a teen, locksmith when he was a young man and saint when he was an adult.'

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