The sayings of the Andean region carry, like any saying, a teaching or a message in their content. In this region they are often used to complement the sayings of daily life.
Some carry a positive message, and others a negative one. However, all show the occurrences of the popular saying. They are sometimes used as a warning to a particular situation. Other times they are used to give advice to an unsolvable problem.
Other sayings are just sayings of popular lore that talk about things that happen frequently. Each region has its own sayings, like its own music or history.
The main sayings of the Andean region
-To a wedding or baptism, do not go without being called.
-Afternoon chirping, little bird.
-Eagle does not hunt fly.
-From the mosquito to the top, everything is hunting.
-Goat that is returned is snuffed out.
-Child who is born pot-bellied, or to be tied down as a child.
-Donkey who thinks, throws the load.
-Do you think this head is only for carrying lice?
-Don't waste gunpowder on zamuros.
-Like alligator in the mouth of the pipe.
-To run, louse, the comb is coming.
-Like a cockroach in a chicken dance.
-Every saint has his day.
-A gift horse does not look at the tusk.
-For great ills, great remedies.
-Shrimp that falls asleep, carried by the current.
-Each arepa finds its pot.
-Each one feels their ills, and God feels those of all.
-With friends like that you don't need enemies.
-With the rod that you measure, you will be measured.
-Raise crows and they will gouge out your eyes.
-When the ship is sinking, all the rats come out.
-Back or to gain momentum.
-Out of sight, out of mind.
Little by little the old woman spins the flake.
-For a sample, one button is enough.
-That your left hand does not know what the right hand does.
-Whoever goes wrong ends badly.
-Who put the bell to the cat?
-Rome was not made in a day.
-The lamp is more expensive than the candle.
-Scabies with pleasure does not itch.
-They remember Santa Barbara when it thunders.
-More flies are hunted with honey than with vinegar.
-Eat to live, not live to eat.
-It defends itself more than cat face up.
-The teeth are so beautiful and the pronunciation is so bad.
-The cage is so beautiful and the pigeon is so ugly.
-So much swimming, only to die on the shore.
-So long in the field and you don't know the malojilla.
-The fumes went to his head.
-A bad apple damages the whole barrel.
-Some are born with a star and others are born with stars.
-He goes backwards like the crab.
-The tail is better than the chiringa.
-Shoe rack to your shoes.
-The hunger joined the desire to eat.
-Touch with your eyes and look with your hands.
-According to the vine, that's how sweet potatoes should be.
-Nobody lecture with a foreign head.
-No one knows what He has, until He loses it.
- Better little and well earned than much but muddy.
-A single swallow does not make a summer.
Themes of interest
Short sayings.
Sayings of love.
Sayings with rhyme.
Mexican sayings.
Chilean sayings.
References
- "Andean Sayings and Sayings" in Scribd. Recovered in October 2017 from Scribd at: es.scribd.com
- «Colombian Andean region. Sayings and Sayings »in the Colombian Andean Region (April 2013). Recovered in October 2017 from the Colombian Andean Region in: Oscve-diverse.blogspot.com.ar
- "Sayings" in Proverb. Recovered in October 2017 from Proverbia at: proverbia.net
- "Sayings and Sayings" in the Andean Region of Colombia. Recovered in October 2017 from Monographs at: monografias.com
- "Sayings and Sayings of Colombia" in Colombia Mágica. Recovered in October 2017 from Colombia Mágica in: colombiamagica.co