Brazilian Colloquialisms, Sayings, and Slang #67

Mentira cabeluda - Hairy lie

A blatant lie, a big lie

Brazilian Colloquialisms, Sayings, and Slang #65

Cada louco com sua mania - [To] each crazy person their craze/habit

The Brazilian more or less equivalent of “to each their own.”

Literally, “each crazy person with their craze/habit/mania.

Game Changers: Brazilian Game Names #3

Cabra-cega - Blind Man’s Bluff

Literally, Blind Nanny Goat

Brazilian Holidays: Christmas #5

In Brazil Santa’s reindeer don’t have names.

They’re just the dudes that pull the sleigh and help Santa in the super important job of handing out the Christmas loot.

Rena - Reindeer (singular)

Renas - Reindeer (plural)

Brazilian Holidays: Christmas #4

In Brazil Mrs. Claus is called Mamãe Noel (Mother/mom/mommy Christmas), which is quite fitting since her husband is Papai Noel (Father/dad/daddy Christmas).

Brazilian Holidays: Christmas #2

Santa Claus/Father Christmas/St.Nick is called Papai Noel in Brazil.

Papai - Father/dad/daddy

Noel - French for “Christmas” (remember how in an earlier post we talked about how Brazil went all borrow-happy on French in the 1800’s?)

(Estar) careca de saber - (To be) bald from knowing The Brazilian equivalent of “to know full...

(Estar) careca de saber - (To be) bald from knowing

The Brazilian equivalent of “to know full well”

ie. Você está careca de saber que eu sou alérgica a gatos - You know full well that I’m allergic to cats

A variant of this is saber muito bem (to know very well).

…You know, the more I translate these the more I realize how weird languages are. Most of the time we’re really just babbling nonsense that for some reason we think sounds logical.