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Como sigas así, vas a terminar arrojándole a la Virgen cascaras de papa.
“If you continue in this manner, you’re going to end up throwing potato peels to the Virgin.”
Un día de mayo llegó a tanto su alelamiento que les echó a los cerdos, en lugar de cascaras de papa, las hojas de rosa que tenían listas para el paso de la Virgen en la procesión. –Eso es lo que llaman echarles margaritas a los cerdos – se burlaban las otras-.
One day in May her state of stupefaction reached such a point that she threw to the pigs, instead of potato peels, the rose petals they had prepared for the passing of the Virgin in the procession. “That’s what you call throwing pearls before swine,” joked the others.
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