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May 02, 2011, 05:25 AM
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Donde no hay mata, no hay patata
It means " de donde no hay no se puede sacar" That is used when sb is not very clever, is there an equivalent in English, using potato?
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May 02, 2011, 05:34 AM
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I don't think there is any similar in English
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May 02, 2011, 05:38 AM
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Not with potato, but you can say:
"You can't get blood out of a stone" or , "You can't get a turnip to bleed." These phrases can be used to mean don't expect something that cannot render to render examples:don't expect get money from a pauper, don't expect brilliance from a dummy etc. By the way the blood -out-of- a- stone phrase is much more common than the turnip phrase.
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May 02, 2011, 06:31 AM
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thank you very much.
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May 02, 2011, 07:04 AM
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Is the phrase used exclusively to describe someone who isn't clever, or
does it have wider meaning as similar phrases in English do?
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