{"id":9762,"date":"2016-06-30T11:40:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=9762"},"modified":"2018-08-03T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:52:43","slug":"spanish-proverbs-refranes-sobre-el-agua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/spanish-proverbs-refranes-sobre-el-agua\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish proverbs: Refranes sobre el agua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">To continue with the topic of Spanish proverbs, today we focus on those that talk about or are related to water.\u00a0Water is a fluid element that is essential to life, and as such can take on many different symbolic meanings. Add that to the natural creativity of a language and you will have a myriad of examples of popular\u00a0wisdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Para seguir con el tema de los refranes en espa\u00f1ol, hoy nos centramos en aquellos que hablan de o se relacionan con el agua. El agua es un elemento fluido, imprescindible para la vida, y por ello adopta muchos significados simb\u00f3licos diferentes. Si a\u00f1adimos la creatividad natural de cualquier idioma tendremos millones de ejemplos de sabidur\u00eda popular.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Agua y refranes\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RkeqvcxxwpQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Video by\u00a0<a class=\"g-hovercard yt-uix-sessionlink spf-link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC__N8YcCj7tdXORLH1VcsQ\">seveinzepol<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Water and the weather<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rel\u00e1mpagos al Oriente, agua para el d\u00eda siguiente:\u00a0<\/strong>Lightning to the East, water the next day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abril, aguas mil. \/ Abril, abril, tu agua para otro, tu sol para m\u00ed:\u00a0<\/strong>April, a thousand waters (it rhymes in Spanish) \/ April, April, your water for another, your sun for me. Apparently, the English equivalent is <em>April weather, rain and sunshine, both together<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agua al mediod\u00eda, agua para todo el d\u00eda:<\/strong> Water at noon, water all day long.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cielo a corderos, agua a calderos:<\/strong> Sky of lambs, caldrons of water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Si las orejas sacude la burra, aguas seguras:<\/strong> If the donkey shakes her ears, water for sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norte claro, sur oscuro, aguacero seguro:<\/strong> Clear North, dark South, downpour for sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agua y sol, tiempo de reques\u00f3n; sol y agua, tiempo de cuajada:<\/strong> Rains\u00a0and sun, time of cottage cheese; sun and rains, time of clurd.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Water and advice<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agua, barro y basura, cr\u00edan buena verdura:\u00a0<\/strong>Water, mud and waste, grow good vegetables.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Del agua mansa, l\u00edbranos Dios, que de la removida me libro yo:\u00a0<\/strong>God, save us from still waters; from rough\u00a0water I save myself. More idiomatically in English:\u00a0<em>God defends me from still water, and I&#8217;ll keep myself from the rough<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No bebas agua que no veas, ni firmes escrito que no leas:\u00a0<\/strong>Don&#8217;t drink water you can&#8217;t see, don&#8217;t sign a text you haven&#8217;t read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>El que con agua se desayuna, es que con vino cen\u00f3:\u00a0<\/strong>Whoever has a breakfast of\u00a0water, must have had\u00a0wine for dinner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agua que no has de beber, d\u00e9jala correr: <\/strong>Those waters you will\u00a0not drink, you shall let run. In English, there used to exist\u00a0the following saying:\u00a0 <em>Scald not your lips in another man&#8217;s pottage.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To continue with the topic of Spanish proverbs, today we focus on those that talk about or are related to water.\u00a0Water is a fluid element that is essential to life, and as such can take on many different symbolic meanings. 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