Phrase · 📜 Proverbs & sayings
O seguro morreu de velho.
Better safe than sorry.
C2proverb: cautioninformallearned as a wholeAudio · coming soon
Why every word is where it is
Odeterminerthemasc. · sing. · definiteseguro1nouninsurance, the cautious onemasc. · sing.morreuverbdiedmorrer · past · 3rd sing.deprepositionof, fromvelhoadjectiveold (age)masc. · sing..
- seguro → morreu: seguro → morreu
- morreu → velho: morrer de velho = die of old age
Word for word: “Insurance died of old age.”
Why it's built this way
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- 1Pun: «o seguro» is both insurance and the cautious man, who lives long. Figurative language & rhetorical devices →