Each Spanish idiom below comes with what its words literally say, what it means and how other languages put the same idea. To see every language at once, open the side-by-side page for brains.
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lit. ‘be missing a screw’
Someone is a bit crazy, or is acting as if they've lost their mind.
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lit. ‘to be in Babia’
To miss something that is obvious to everyone else.
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lit. ‘it sounds like Chinese to me’
I can't understand any of it.
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No ver más allá de sus narices
lit. ‘not to see beyond your own nose’
Someone who only knows their own small world and thinks it's everything.
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lit. ‘like a fish out of the water’
Someone who feels uncomfortable and out of place in unfamiliar surroundings.
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lit. ‘to be in the clouds’
To be lost in thought and not paying attention.
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lit. ‘to not know even a potato’
To have no idea at all.
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lit. ‘to mix churra sheep with merino sheep’
To compare or mix up two things that don't belong together.
Phrases in bold with a red marker are written up. The rest don’t have their own page yet.