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Project: Expressionada


Cão chupando manga
Hello, dear foreign… Are you ready for one more episode on the never-ending saga of the weirdness of Brazilian expressions? Then, buckle...
anandadamata
Feb 5, 20233 min read
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COM A AVÓ ATRÁS DO TOCO
Hello, dear foreign, how are you? Over here I’m back at my home town to visit my mum, and she’s the inspiration for our expression of the...
anandadamata
Dec 2, 20222 min read
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PAGAR PRA VER
Hello, dear foreign, how have you been? Around here everything is great, and as my mom would say, good like money found. And although I...
anandadamata
Nov 23, 20222 min read
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CONVERSA PRA BOI DORMIR
Did you miss me, dear foreign? I sure missed you, I was kinda used to having your company here everyday, and this is not a talk to ox to...
anandadamata
Nov 11, 20222 min read
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31. AO PÉ DA LETRA
Here we go, dear foreign, the last expression of this part of our project, and I just wanna say how much I had fun in this journey. I...
anandadamata
Oct 31, 20222 min read
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30. 45 DO SEGUNDO TEMPO
This is us right now, at the 45 minutes of the second half, almost end of the match! But not yet. Brazil is known to be the country of...
anandadamata
Oct 30, 20222 min read
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29. UAI
Yes! My absolute favourite! For real now! I’m not able to keep a conversation if you take this one away from me. But for “uai” I’ll have...
anandadamata
Oct 29, 20222 min read
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28. SÓ O PÓ DA RABIOLA
This one is really appropriate for today! This week was exhausting! I’m absolutely destroyed, in a deplorable condition. Or, as a...
anandadamata
Oct 28, 20222 min read
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27. O QUE É UM PEIDO PRA QUEM ESTÁ CAGADO?!
I figured that since we were already on the subject with yesterday’s post, I’d get over with it already. And no, not the cow, the poop....
anandadamata
Oct 27, 20222 min read
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26. CAGANDO E ANDANDO
Remember the “either shit or vacate the bush” of day 11? This one is another of the poop-related expressions that having nothing dirty...
anandadamata
Oct 26, 20222 min read
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25. ENFIAR O PÉ NA JACA
Guess what? One of my favourites! And not only the expression, the whole meaning of it! I have mentioned here before that I’m a foodie....
anandadamata
Oct 25, 20222 min read
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24. ACERTAR NA MOSCA
“Acertar na mosca” could be literally translated as “to hit the fly”. And if you guessed that this isn’t what the expression really...
anandadamata
Oct 24, 20222 min read
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23. SEM PÉ NEM CABEÇA
Oh, I love this one! “Sem pé nem cabeça”, which would literally mean “with no foot nor head”. Does it make any sense? No? Good! Because...
anandadamata
Oct 23, 20222 min read
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22. QUEBRAR UM GALHO
This one is one of the immortals! It’s said by an unknown number of Brazilian folks since an uncertain moment in history and it seems...
anandadamata
Oct 22, 20222 min read
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21. MEIA-TIGELA
This is one my favourites! It’s so pleasant to the ears, although is so derogatory that it’s funny! The literal translation of...
anandadamata
Oct 21, 20222 min read
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20. MÃO DE VACA
Guess what? The cow again! In a completely different meaning that also has nothing to do with the literality of the expression. The...
anandadamata
Oct 20, 20222 min read
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19. NEM QUE A VACA TUSSA
We’re back with the cow! I did tell you it was present in a lot of expressions, right? And if you bet that the expression had nothing to...
anandadamata
Oct 19, 20222 min read
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18. SEGURAR VELA
This one is a bit sad, a tad uncomfortable, and most of the times, extremely boring. “Segurar vela”, at its literal translation, means to...
anandadamata
Oct 18, 20222 min read
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17. CADA MACACO NO SEU GALHO
Have you ever had that person who always wants to tell you how to do a certain thing, telling you how they would do that thing, even if...
anandadamata
Oct 17, 20222 min read
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16. BATER AS BOTAS
I remember when I was at school and I learned about euphemism, that word or expression used in place of another word of expression...
anandadamata
Oct 16, 20222 min read
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