🇪🇸 Spanish, taken literally
Dar calabazas a alguien
Literally
to give pumpkins to someone
What it really means
to reject someone's romantic advances
Keep the ones you liked. We will bring them back before you forget.
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