Wendung · 🎶 Cultural references & allusions
Ele vive pela Lei de Gérson: quer levar vantagem em tudo.
He lives by Gérson's Law: he wants to come out on top in everything.
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Warum jedes Wort dort steht, wo es steht
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- levar → vantagem: levar vantagem = come out on top
- quer → levar: querer + infinitive
Warum sie so gebaut ist
Die Hinweise passen zu den Nummern oben.
- 1From a 1976 cigarette ad in which footballer Gérson said he liked getting an advantage in everything; now a byword for cutting corners.
- 2«levar vantagem» = to get the upper hand.