Wednesday 16 December 2015

Brazilian Culture: Differences #9

Brazilian Culture: Differences #9

Brazilian Colloquialisms, Sayings, and Slang #93

Estar com cara de quem não sabe se quer casar ou comprar uma bicicleta - To be looking like you don’t know whether you want to get married or buy a bicycle

When someone has that lost look on their face like they have no idea what the wanna do but they wanna do something.

Literally, “To be with a face of someone who doesn’t know if they want to get married or buy a bicycle”

Saturday 5 December 2015

Brazilian Colloquialisms, Sayings, and Slang #92

Nóis é pobre mas a gente se adiverti - We be poor but we has fun

The sentence “nós somos pobre mas a gente se diverte” (we are poor but we have fun) in “improper” Portuguese in reference to a country bumpkin/lower class Portuguese dialect. Kind of reminiscent of “we make our own fun” (ish).