The following is the Speaking Latino list of Spanish sayings in English specific to Puerto Rico. Many of these sayings, proverbs, refranes, modismos or idioms are also used in other Latin American countries.
You can find this list and much more in my book Speaking Phrases Boricua: A Collection of Wisdom and Sayings from Puerto Rico.
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Spanish Sayings in English | Letter H
Happens to the best of them
-Pasa hasta en las mejores familias
Happy as a lark
-Más contento que perro con dos rabos
Have your cake and eat it too
-Es como el perro del hortelano, que ni come ni deja comer
He gives twice who gives quickly
-El que da primero, da dos veces
He is a leech
-Está hecho una ladilla
He who excuses himself accuses himself
-Te estás curando en salud
He who laughs last laughs best
-El que ríe último, ríe mejor
He who lives by the sword dies by the sword
-El que a hierro mata, a hierro muere
He’ll get his
-A cada lechón le llega su San Martín
-A cada puerco le llega su sábado
He’ll get what he deserves
-A cada lechón le llega su San Martín
-A cada puerco le llega su sábado
He’ll get what’s coming to him
-A cada lechón le llega su San Martín
-A cada puerco le llega su sábado
Here today, gone tomorrow
-Hoy vivo, mañana muerto
His bark is worse than his bite
-Perro que ladra no muerde
His time will come
-A cada lechón le llega su San Martín
-A cada puerco le llega su sábado
-A cada santo le llega su día [hora]
-A cada santo su vela
Hit the nail on the head
-Hablaste por boca de santo
-Le puso el dedo en la llaga
Hopping mad
-Como un ciempiés meado
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