Catalan proverbs
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In the Catalan language, the native, popular proverbs received the name of refranys.
[edit] List of refranys
- Barcelona és bona si la bossa sona.
- Barcelona is good if the bag sounds (if you have money).
- De mica en mica s'omple la pica i de gota en gota s'omple la bóta.
- Little by little you fill the sink and drop by drop you fill the barrel.
- És pitjor el remei que la malaltia.
- The remedy is worse than the disease.
- On vas diner? Allà on n'hi ha més
- Where do you go, money? Where there is more.
- Ploure sobre mullat.
- To rain in a wet site.
- Comprar barat és comprar dues vegades.
- To buy cheap is to buy twice.
- Any de neu, any de Deu.
- Year of snow, year of God.
- A boca tancada, no hi entra mosca.
- In a shut mouth, no fly will go in.
- No diguis blat que no sigui al sac i ben lligat.
- Don't count your chickens until they've hatched.
- S'atrapa abans a un mentider que a un coix.
- You'll catch a liar first than you'll catch a lame.
- Qui la fa, la paga.
- Who does, pays.
