What is a figure of speech you like in your language?
What is a figure of speech you like in your language?
It could also just be English if you only speak English.
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Here's one in Egyptian Arabic: "He who gets burnt by soup will blow on yoghurt", meaning that someone who gets hurt once will bexome careful not to repeat the experience.
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I really like this! Getting burnt so bad that you'd blow on something cold like ice out of fear.
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In French we have "a burned cat fear cold water" (chat échaudé craint l'eau froide)
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There's a very similar version in Spanish
El que con leche se quema, hasta al jocoque le sopla
He who gets burnt by milk will blow on jocoque
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Made me think of the (ptpt/ptbr) saying "Quem com ferro fere, com ferro será ferido" - Who hurts with iron, shall be hurt with iron
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We have a similar one in Bulgarian too: "Парен каша духа" - roughly the same thing, but without explicitly mentioning youghurt.
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