• @[email protected]
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    37 months ago

    Southern Spain is also famous for sayings like these, some that come to my mind that I’ve heard from some friends:

    “Hungrier than a snail on a glass” “Has less fat than a goat’s knee” “More leg than a box of shrimps” “This is harder than sweeping the floor upstairs”

    • Echo Dot
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      7 months ago

      Only like one of those makes any sense.

      Why would a snail be more hungry on a glass surface than any other surface? Or for that matter, why is it hard to sweep the upper stories of the building than the ground floor?

      • @[email protected]
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        47 months ago

        There isn’t anything for a snail to eat on a clean pane of glass, as opposed to a typical rock outside.

        Goats don’t have fatty knees.

        Shrimp have have many “legs”.

      • @hex
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        27 months ago

        It probably doesn’t translate over that well…