Phrase · 📜 Proverbs in conversation
Te lo digo claro: al pan, pan, y al vino, vino.
I'll tell you straight: I call a spade a spade.
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
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- al → vino: frozen proverb
- Te → digo: te: to you
- lo → digo: lo: what I'm about to say
Mot à mot : “I tell you clearly: to bread, bread, and to wine, wine.”
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1Al pan, pan, y al vino, vino = to call a spade a spade (lit. to bread, bread, and to wine, wine).
- 2Natural just before saying something blunt: it warns the listener and softens nothing.
- 3te lo digo: lo anticipates what follows. Double object pronouns (se lo) and clitic placement →
- 4claro as an adverb = clearly, plainly: hablar claro.
Variantes
- Seamos claros: al pan, pan, y al vino, vino.
- Te lo digo sin rodeos: al pan, pan, y al vino, vino.
- Te lo digo sin rodeos, como es.