The following is the Speaking Latino list of Puerto Rican Spanish Expressions in English popular 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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Puerto Rican Spanish Expressions in English | Letter C
Call a spade a spade
-Al pan, pan y al vino, vino
Caught red-handed
-Pillar con las manos en la masa
Caught with a hand in the cookie jar
-Pillar con las manos en la masa
Charity begins at home
-La caridad empieza por casa
Children and fools tell the truth
-Los niños y los borrachos siempre dicen la verdad
Clothes don’t make the man
-El hábito no hace al monje pero lo distingue
Clueless
-Estar más perdido que un juey bizco
-Lo coge todo por el rabo
Curiosity killed the cat
-La curiosidad mató al gato
Cut to the chase
-Al pan, pan y al vino, vino
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