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Puerto Rican Spanish Sayings in English | Letter H

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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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Check out these other Puerto Rican Spanish Slang Expressions articles.


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