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Old August 02, 2009, 11:12 PM
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Question Mucho ruido y pocas nueces

¿Alguien puede decirme que significa esta expresión por favor?

Es algo como: Much ado about nothing?
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Old August 03, 2009, 12:26 AM
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There is a thread about it

http://forums.tomisimo.org/showthrea...ghlight=nueces

An here:

http://www.tomisimo.org/idioms/es/mu...eces-2293.html

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¡Gracias! ¡Lo siento no lo he visto!

Entonces puede significar:
- Much ado about nothing (como lo he supuesto)
- A storm in a teacup
- A tempest in a teapot (eso es la primera vez que oigo este dicho)
- Don' t make a mountain out of a molehill

Lo que entiendo, porque son más o menos sinónimos (they mean more or less the same).

Pero:
- All mouth and no trousers
- All talk and no action

Estas fraces me parecen significar más algo como 'uno tiene una ' boca grande' pero no hace nada' ? ¿No es exactamente lo mismo como 'exagerar algo/ hacerlo fuera de proporción' como las primeras 4 frases?

¿Quiere decir que 'mucho ruido y pocas nueces' tiene los dos sentidos?

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It depends All talk and no action and all mouth and no action is the closest to mucho ruido y pocas nueces. ( When somebody speaks) the other ones are more related to actions. In Spanish mucho ruído y pocas nueces has got two meanings " Verbally" as you said sb that talks a lot about something and does nothing. In fact this is the main meaning.
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It depends All talk and no action and all mouth and no action is the closest to mucho ruido y pocas nueces. ( When somebody speaks) the other ones are more related to actions. In Spanish mucho ruído y pocas nueces has got two meanings " Verbally" as you said sb that talks a lot about something and does nothing. In fact this is the main meaning.
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In spanis, it's mainly "much ado about nothing". Lots of speaking/action/effort but at the end poor/no result. Examples: politics, goverment measures, and so on.
También vale para películas ó aparatos que reciben mucha publicidad pero que luego no son tan buenos.

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In spanis, it's mainly "much ado about nothing". Lots of speaking/action/effort but at the end poor/no result. Examples: politics, goverment measures, and so on.
También vale para películas ó aparatos que reciben mucha publicidad pero que luego no son tan buenos.

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¡Entendido!

Sí por las personas politicas especialmente eso es muy cierto..

En Holanda se dice:

Veel geschreeuw, weinig wol --> Muchos gritos, poca lana..
(Es muy parecido al dicho español entonces )
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En Holanda se dice:
Veel geschreeuw, weinig wol --> Muchos gritos, poca lana..
(Es muy parecido al dicho español entonces )

Si, es muy parecido al español
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