de aquellos polvos, estos lodos
Meaning: Consequences or problems arise later from careless or harmful actions taken earlier; misdeeds eventually catch up with you.
Language: Spanish
Literally: from those dusts, these muds
Category: Nature
Origin: Dust stirred up in the past settles and becomes mud in the present—a vivid picture of how past negligence becomes present trouble.
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From our tongue twisters
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