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Learning a new language will do that for you. (You might think that there are exotic types of cats that snore in Brazil...) There is a hilarious book called The Cow went to the Swamp - A vaca foi pro Brejo by Millôr Fernandes, where Brazilian expressions and slang were translated literally into English.
The title expression means that a situation went completely haywire.
Puxa-saco = sack puller
(meaning ass kisser)
(That last is not from the book, although I remember it being in there, but the following are):
A cobra está fumando = the snake is smoking
(a reference to gunsmoke, meaning that things are very heated and emotional)
Abraço de tamanduá - an anteater's embrace
(meaning someone who looks like they are giving you kindness or a benefit when they are crushing you instead)
Afogar o ganso - to drown the goose
(meaning insert a penis into a vagina)
Alguma coisa pra beliscar - something to pinch
(meaning snack)
Ajoelhou, tem que rezar - he knelt down, he has to pray
(meaning a person needs to give more than lip service)
Ali, no duro - there, in the hard
(meaning it actually happened)
Amigo do alheio - friend of the alien
(meaning Good Samaritan)
Arranhando o violão - scratching the guitar
(meaning playing an acoustic guitar enough to get by)
Arrebentar a boca do balão - to blow up the balloon's mouth
(meaning to have resounding success)
Arrotar vantagens - to belch advantages
(meaning to brag)
Aspone (Assessor de porra nenhuma) - Saaa (sperm at all assessor)
(meaning a person with a title and no authority or any importance)
Assim ou assado - this way or roasted
(meaning one way or another)
Assobiar e chupar cana - to whistle and suck sugar cane
(meaning have your cake and eat it too)
The list goes on and on. (Like all such things, it stops being funny after a while. Still the book is a good reference for a periodic laugh.)
Michael
(Edited by Michael Stuart Kelly on 9/16, 12:29pm)
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