Lost in Literal

🇪🇸 Spanish, taken literally

Ser un aguafiestas

Literally

to be a party-waterer

What it really means

to be a party pooper, a killjoy

agua(물)+fiestas(파티): 파티에 찬물

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Spanish, taken literally

Estar como una cabrato be like a goatSer un gallinato be a henAunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se quedaeven if the monkey dresses in silk, monkey it remainsCamarón que se duerme, se lo lleva la corrienteshrimp that sleeps, current carries it awayBuscar tres pies al gatoto look for the cat's third legDar gato por liebreto give cat instead of hare