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Language: Spanish July 22, 2008, 11:05 PM |
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Ser como el perro del hortelano, que ni come ni deja comer |
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| Translation | User | Date | Translations | Comments | |
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To be the dog in a manger | Rusty | July 25, 2008 |
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| July 22, 2008, 11:06 PM |
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| Cuando alguien no aprovecha lo que tiene, pero tampoco deja que nadie más lo aproveche. |
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| March 26, 2009, 09:52 PM |
| tarnoux |
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Huerto: a vegetable garden Hortelano: the keeper of the vegetable garden Understandably, a dog does not eat vegetables but as the keeper's dog, he protects the keeper's garden so does not allow entry into the garden. Thus he not only does not enjoy the fruits of the vegetable garden ( implicitly, has no interest in those fruits ) but precludes anyone else from enjoying them. Lope de Vega used the idiom as the central plot in a Golden Age play centered on the concept. |
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