How many ways to kiss do you know?
How many ways to kiss do you know? What do you prefer before ‘el beso de la paz’ or ‘el beso de Judas’? Do you know the difference …
‘Tener hipo’ (have hiccups), ‘quitar el hipo’ (take one’s breath away) and other ways of ‘flipar en colores’ (be fascinated)
We talked about everything a bit and the colloquial expression “quitar el hipo” (take one’s breath away) that we say in Spanish when …
“Ser una perla” is not “estar de perlas”
The popular Spanish saying goes and Rosal, Mal Lara and Martínez Kleiser say that “pearls are precious and who knows how to estimate them is who should …
(Español) EN 10 FRASES LO QUE DECIMOS CON ‘LO BUENO ES’ Y ‘LO QUE ES BUENO’
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Why “a las tantas” is not the same that “otras tantas”?
We listened you saying with amazement that “Mario se fue a otras tantas” when you wanted to say something easier “Mario se fue a las …
WHY DO WE SAY ‘A MANO’ TO SAY ‘NEAR’?
With expressions as ‘lo tienes todo a mano’, ‘está muy a mano’ or ‘está más a mano’, the Spaniards say that something or some place is close to …
11 expressions that mean ‘rain cats and dogs’ in Spanish
In Spanish, it is not said ‘rain cats and dogs’ (‘llueven gatos y perros’) when it rains a lot, but it is said ‘caen chuzos de …
Why do we say ‘a lo mejor’ to say ‘maybe’?
More than once you have asked yourself when you should use the adverbial phrase “a lo mejor” with which in Spanish we express doubt or insecurity …
Why we say ‘ni hablar’ and ‘faltaría más’ in place of ‘sí’ or ‘no’?
Sometimes when we express ourselves, it is not enough for the Spaniards to say ‘no’ or ‘nunca’ but we use the negative adverbial phrase …
13 sentences to practice Spanish “a todo meter”
“A todo meter” is an adverbial Spanish phrase that means quickly. Doing things “a todo meter” is to do things very quickly or with …