"local" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Seemingly in passing, but actually to illuminate culture, she tosses in local proverbs.
- Further, in reference to this noble birth, a local proverb was circulated that is still known in the region.
- Restored last century, it housed a cinema and a local proverb suggests that the city's fortunes are linked to the survival of the emperor's memorial.
- A local proverb for those who react excessively to a small problem, is "apou poni vathkia vlootoma" (he who has pain, venesects deeply).
- 'Not a curse, more a local proverb about the necessity of keeping a short rope on your mule, your goat and your spouse.'
- She invented the character of Aunty Roachy on the radio to ridicule the authorities with wit, sometimes ending her monologues with local proverbs.
- But a local proverb translates roughly, "Religion follows the sword," or political power.
- As a local proverb here in Chad puts it: A woman who is pregnant has one foot in the grave.
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- "The Romanian peasants are like mamaliga [corn mush]," goes a local proverb; "they can be boiled forever without exploding."
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