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O Franza o Spagna, basta che se magna
It does not matter below France or Spain, but just to have to eat
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Oci mori robacuori, oci bisi paradisi, oci celesti fa innamorar, oci bianchi fa cagar
Brown eyes are bewitching, gray eyes are havens, blue eyes make you fall in love, white eyes make you suck
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Ogni bela scarpa deventa 'na bruta zavata
Each beautiful shoe will become a bad slipper
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Ogni can mena la coa e ogni mincion vol dir la soa
Every dog wags its tail and every silly wants to say its nonsense
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Ogni paese gΰ la so usanza e ogni porta gΰ el so batarel
Each country has its own traditions as each door holds its clapper
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Ognuno xe fiol de la so azion
Each is child of what he does
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Omo picolo testa grande, omo grando testa picola
Little man big brains, big man small head
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Omo vivo pagarΰ, omo morto ga pagΰ
Who is living will pay, the dead has already paid
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Pai orbi non ghe xe mai dμ
Daylight always misses for the blind
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Pantalon paga per tutti
Pantalone [i.e. the usual unlucky] pays for all
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Par gnente l'orbo no canta
If you don't pay the blind man doesn't sing
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Parchθ la dona la sia perfeta, bisogna che la gabia quatro M: matrona in strada, modesta in ciesa, massera in casa, mata in leto
The perfect woman must have four virtues: great lady down the street, humble at church, housewife at home, crazy in bed (four words starting with M in Italian language)
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Parer e no esser, xe come filar e no tesser
Seeming without being is how making yarn but not spinning
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Parla quando pissa le galine
You will speak when hens pee
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Pati ciari, amiηizia longa
Clear understandings breed long friendships
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Pejo el tacon del buso
The patch is worse than the tear
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Per ben lustrar che vol ogio de gomio
Good cleaning requires elbow grease
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Per quanto bone che le sia, le madone [suocere] sta ben sui quadri
Mothers-in-law look good in pictures only, even if good
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Per voler saver de tuto, se sa anche da mona
It ends up that you seem fool, when you pretend to know everything
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Peto picinin, late pegorin
Small breasts, milk more substantial
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Pigro a magnar pigro a laorar
Slow at the table, lazy to work
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Piova e sol le strigne [streghe] va in amor
When it rains with the sun, the witches fall in love
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Piutosto che le tarme la magna, xe meio che i osei la becola
Rather than the moths eat, it is better than birds beak at it
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Piutosto ch'el pagion [babbeo], mejo el spazin
Instead of the nitwit, the sweeper is better
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Porco ingrassΰ, no xe mai contento
Fattened pig is never happy
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Preti e capitei, caveve 'l capeo e rispetei
Chapels and priests: take off your hat and respect them
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Prima de parlar bisogna fare come el gal, che sbate tre volte le ale prima de cantar
Before to speak we have to do like the cock, which beats its wings three times before singing
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