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Old March 26, 2009, 08:22 PM
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Did you want to mean that the phrase holier than thou is translated as más papista que el papa?
Yes, the phrase holier-than-thou can be translated as más papista que el papa. Here are other ways it can be translated:
mojigato (e hipócrita), farisaico, puritano, santurrón en un grado exagerado
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Old March 26, 2009, 09:45 PM
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Why did you flagged some words in my previous post if I can see that my post is not as bad as seems it.
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Why did you flag some words in my previous post if I can see that my post is not as bad as it seems?
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Ok! That was the meaning I heard the phrase with (¿? Este es el significado con el que escuché el dicho). But It's interesting to know other meanings of the saying, above all "más papista que el papa" that is very useful

And thanks for correcting my spelling mistakes, too. I heard it in an oral conversation and tried to write it.
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Ok! That was the meaning I heard the phrase with (¿? Este es el significado con el que escuché el dicho). But It's interesting to know other meanings of the saying, above all "más papista que el papa" that is very useful

And thanks for correcting my spelling mistakes, too. I heard it in an oral conversation and tried to write it.
That's what I did, when I was beginning to translate what I knew in Spanish to English.
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