Portuguese Sayings

There is a facebook group, going by the name "Portuguese Sayings", which is growing quite popular as of late. It is simply a collection of traditional Portuguese Sayings translated (close to literally) to English.

It is quite funny to see how most of them make no sense at all when not in their original language, leading us to wonder about their origins. Even for non-native Portuguese speakers some of them might be puzzling, such as (probably) Estou-me nas tintas / I'm on the inks, which means that we don't really care (at all).
Through sharing part of this "knowledge" I came to know that some sayings we Portuguese believe to be National are in fact used in other countries as well. For instance I've learned that Don't check the tooth of a given horse is actually also said in Czech. It's always interesting to find things that can be so amusing and culturally interesting at the same time.


Filipe Baptista de Morais