95 Venezuelan Sayings and Sayings and their Meaning

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Philip Kelley

I leave you the best known Venezuelan popular sayings and sayings, product of the diverse mixes of cultures that have taken place in this country throughout its history. You can use them to share, reflect or as support for your work.

The sayings and sayings of a country or region are a true reflection of its idiosyncrasy. They were generally acquired a long time ago and passed on orally generation after generation..

Indigenous, African and European influences make many of the Venezuelan sayings adaptations of others more universal. Irony and sarcasm are also used a lot. 

List of popular sayings and sayings of Venezuela

1- Goat that returns is naked: don't regret something at the last minute.

2- Stay without the goat and without the rope: have two alternatives and in the end run out of any (rope = rope). In other countries it is said "to run out of bread and cake".

3- Every pig gets his Saturday: There is a tradition of killing a pig to eat it every Saturday. It means that sooner or later your time will come.

4- The goat always pulls for the bush: rudeness, bad manners sooner or later end up giving a person away. 

5- The monkey, although she dresses in silk, the monkey stays: refers to the fact that no matter how much a person dresses or puts on makeup, they cannot hide their true physique.

6- Cachicamo telling morrocoy conchudo: the cachicamo is an autochthonous animal similar to the armadillo; the morrocoy is a land tortoise with a very thick shell. The saying applies when a person tends to criticize in another a defect that he himself suffers.

7- Don't hit it, it's not a bolero: the bolero is a rhythm that is usually danced very close. This is said to the man who gets too close to a girl without her permission.

8- War warned in the bush soldier: "Then don't say I didn't warn you".

9- Little by little it goes away: it means that you have to have patience to achieve the objectives and goals in life.

10- Be like a cockroach at a chicken dance: not knowing where to stand, feeling that you are in the way anywhere, being out of place.

eleven- Be like alligator in the mouth of the pipe: be alert, waiting to hunt something.

12- Be in three and two: comes from the slang of baseball, the most popular sport in Venezuela. Being in 3 balls and 2 strikes means that they do you out and you exit the game, or you get first base on the next pitch. It is used when you are on edge about something.

13- The devil knows more for being old than for being the devil: experience is gained over the years. Young people are told a lot when they think they know them all.

14- You chirped late, little bird: it's too late to talk or you were late for something.

fifteen- Shrimp that falls asleep, it carries current: it is necessary to be attentive so that something does not happen.

16- To put on the espadrilles that what is coming is joropo: the joropo is the typical dance of the Venezuelan plains, where espadrilles are used. It is said when things "get ugly" and it is time to act.

17- Don't waste gunpowder on zamuro: the zamuro is a bird of prey, it is not edible and therefore, it is not worth killing it because it has no use. It means that you do not waste time on things that are not important.

18- Have the game "locked": it has to do with the game of dominoes, when there are no more chips to put on the table. It applies when you do not know what to do or have no choice in a situation.

19- Neither washes nor lends the pan: the selfish are told that, having them, they do not give solutions or alternatives to a problem.

twenty- Like father Like Son: applies when the son closely resembles the father in physical or attitude.

twenty-one- Son of a cat, hunting mouse: equal to the previous.

22- Grabbing even if it's fault: when a payment or compensation is accepted even if it seems little. It is a version of the following saying, better known.

2. 3- Better bird in hand than a hundred flying: better to settle for something that you have insurance, than to try to cover a lot and lose everything.

24- Be a "jala rope": rope is a rope or rope. It is said that Simón Bolívar liked to have his hammock rocked with ropes. Those who offered to rock him, moving the rope, sought to get along with the Liberator. Flatterers, then, are called "pull ropes".

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25- When the river sounds, stones bring: if there is a rumor going around, there is some truth behind it.

26- When there are new saints, old ones do not work miracles: before the novelty, the known loses interest. It also applies in the following saying.

27- New broom sweeps well. Same meaning as above.

28- I know you, little bird: said mischievously when someone tries to conceal or hide something they did.

29- Round the arepa: the arepa is a round bread made with corn flour. A Venezuelan "rounds off the arepa" when he completes his food or salary with something else.

30- Kill a tiger: find an additional or informal job to "round the arepa".

31- The one who is born pot-bellied, nor that they wrap it small: it is difficult or impossible to correct a defect in someone.

32- Tree that is born crooked, its trunk never straightens: who is born with a defect, will not correct it for many years that pass. 

33- More tangled than a kilo of tow: tow is a fiber that is used for cleaning, made of many loose and tangled threads.

3. 4- More lost than Adam on Mother's Day: used to refer to someone who is very disoriented.

35- Harder than pinching a donkey to death: used when talking about a very difficult task or to refer to a very unlikely event.

36- Harder than sancocho de pata: used to refer to something that is very hard.

37- The snake kills itself by the head: problems are faced directly.

38- "Are you going to continue, Abigail?": it is said when a person is very insistent or has an endless conversation. It has its origin in a soap opera from the 80s (Abigaíl) that was very successful and that is why it was extended for many months.

39- As it comes, we are seeing: It also comes from a very famous character from a soap opera from the 90s (Por Las Calles). It means that as events unfold, you will see what action to take.

40- On the way the burdens are straightened: not everything is as terrible as it seems at first. It gets better over time.

41- Donkey that thinks drops the load: it is not necessary to think so much about simple things.

42- A gift horse does not look at the tusk: if they give you something or it does not cost you money, do not criticize it.

43- A god begging and with the hammer giving: you appear to be good and behind you do bad things.

44- To foolish words, deaf ears: do not take notice of those people who speak without having knowledge about a subject or those others who only make destructive criticisms to harm us.

Four. Five- Believe yourself the ice cream dad: to believe a great thing, to be too conceited.

46- At home blacksmith, wooden knife: refers to the lack of some object or capacity of a person in a place where it is normal or natural to get said object. It is also used when children do not choose their family's profession.

47- The boy who is a crybaby and the mother who pinches him: the situation is bad and someone instead of helping, complicates it.

48- In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king: among the weak or disadvantaged, anyone with minimal strength or virtue stands out above the rest.

49- Jack of all trades, master of none: don't try to do more than you really can.

fifty- Earning indulgences with someone else's scapular: attribute as their own the achievements of another person.

51- Drunken farewell: when goodbyes get too long.

52- Staying like a village bride (dressed and in an uproar): so says a person who waits for something or someone.

53- Give more spin than sucker in the mouth of an old woman: the mamón is a Venezuelan wild fruit, round, small and not very fleshy that, in order to eat it, you have to put it in your mouth and try to remove its flesh with your teeth. For people who do not have teeth, it is very difficult to eat.

54- When the poor man washes, it rains: referring to bad luck.

55- If I ride a circus and the dwarfs grow: when problems get worse and arise one after another. Refers to a streak of bad luck.

56- Whoever does not know you should buy you: those who promote themselves too much or claim to be more than they really are are told.

57- It left me like the guayabera: the guayabera is a shirt that is worn outside the pants. This saying applies when someone is excluded from a plan or conversation.

58- If you are not going to iron, do not wrinkle: if you are not part of the solution, do not be part of the problem.

59- Coriander is good, but not so much: coriander is a very aromatic herb used for cooking. This saying is said to warn not to overdo it with something.

60- What belongs to the priest, goes to the church: if it is for you, it will come.

61- So much swimming, only to die on the shore: so much work for something to lose it in the end.

62- Not so bald or with two wigs: neither so much nor so little. It is used to refer to a person who either passes or does not arrive.

63- An ice cream cart is going to run you over: it is said to a very lively person.

64- More is the noise than the cabuya (string): it is similar to the saying "a lot of noise and few nuts". It refers to people who talk a lot but who do not comply with what they say with their actions.

65- Do not be a showcase for anyone: do not keep any secrets.

66- A stuffed animal is going to bite you- Often used to warn smug people that their bragging can play tricks on them.

67- Love with hunger does not last: it comes to say that, no matter how much a couple loves each other, if there are financial problems, love will end.

68- Know more than a fried fish: refers to a person who is an expert in something.

69- Eat more than new lime: it is said of a person who is very gluttonous or eats a lot. It is a simile with the hand file, which at first works very well and "eats" the nails easily..

70- Who was bitten by Macagua, liana for his hair: refers to those people who, after very bad experiences, take measures so that they do not happen again. Macanagua is how the natives refer to a dangerous viper.

71-To the eye percent: when estimating by eye, without any measurement tool.

72-It's a mango shell: a trick question, which seems simple but is not.

73- Now the cat is mounted in the pan: when a situation becomes untenable.

74-We sowed mango and it came out passion fruit: refers to a heterosexual couple who conceived a homosexual child.

75-A lot of gum but little bomb: when a problem of something unimportant is created.

76-More is the noise than the cabulla: the same as the previous.

77-It's a garlic lollipop: unpleasant person or who always acts unfriendly to people.

78- Cachicamo works pa 'lapa: it is said when a naive person dedicates all his effort so that in the end the benefit goes to another.

79-The cross on the chest and the devil in fact: refers to those who are bad but hide it by going to church for example.

80- Heron eye, what a hen does not see at night: it comes to say that caution is exercised.

81- Read in your book, which I read in mine: stay out of my business and dedicate yourself to yours.

82- Tall tree, sure fruit: It comes to say that there is not enough envy to destroy the fruit achieved by a great person.

83-Pouring it with great cocoa and it does not even reach a coffee grounds: it is used for a person who boasts of what he does not have.

84-More lost than dwarf in procession: person who cannot find his place. It can be applied in many aspects of life.

85-Jumped the fence: applies to a person who has suddenly changed his attitude or his way of thinking.

86-I warn you chirulí: ironic or sarcastic way of negating a proposition.

87-Further than llanera block: when something is too far away.

88-As a Vallejos police officer: it is said of a person who tries to make believe that he does not realize the problem.

89-Do the Willie Mays: same case as above.

90-He has more teeth than a dog fight: it is said of a person who has very large teeth.

91-Like a disco ball: person who looks everywhere.

92-Hunger is the best sauce: it means that when a person is hungry, they will not care what they put in their mouth to eat.

93-It's like a seal's ass: when something is very cold.

94-More gripping than old on a motorcycle: it is said of a greedy or selfish person.

95-Carrying more eggs than poor man's frying pan: refers to a promiscuous person.

Themes of interest

Short sayings and their meaning.

Mexican sayings.

Spanish sayings.

Argentine sayings.

Love sayings.

Rhyming sayings.


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