26 November 2008

Two Portuguese phrases most of you probably didn’t know about

1. To criticize someone’s general disposition – to call them nasty, petty, selfish, generally miserable – you would refer to them as being “pig-spirited.”

2. One way to tell someone they’ve done a lousy job at completing a task is to say, “You did it just like your face.” As my brother pointed out, this is a wonderful of telling someone that they are both incompetent and ugly.

“I thought I told you to clean your room!”
“But I did clean it…”
“Oh, I can see that. You cleaned it just like your face!”

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