de Pascuas a Ramos
Meaning: Once in a blue moon; extremely rarely or at great intervals.
Language: Spanish
Literally: from Easter to Palm Sunday
Category: Daily Life
Origin: The phrase alludes to the liturgical calendar anomaly: Palm Sunday precedes Easter, so to go "from Easter back to Palm Sunday" is chronologically backwards and thus impossible—a vivid way to express something that happens in reverse of normal expectation, i.e., almost never.
More idioms — Daily Life
- Dampf ablassen — To release pent-up emotion or frustration.
- aus dem Off — to speak or act without drawing attention to oneself, anonymously or from the background.
- etwas auf die lange Bank schieben — to postpone or delay something indefinitely.
- in die Quere kommen — to interfere with someone, to get in the way or obstruct.
- von einem Tag auf den anderen — very quickly, suddenly, or overnight.
- außer Rand und Band geraten — To lose control and behave wildly or unruly.
More Spanish idioms
- con lo puesto — With nothing but the clothes on one's back; in a state of complete destitution.
- Buscar una aguja en un pajar — To search for something you have almost no chance of finding, because the thing is tiny a…
- Estar en la edad del pavo — To be at an awkward teenage phase.
- Tener mala leche — To be in a foul mood or have bad intentions.
- No tener pelos en la lengua — To speak very bluntly and honestly.
- Ser pan comido — To be extremely easy.
From our tongue twisters
- El perro de San Roque no tiene rabo porque Ramón Ramírez se lo ha robado. — A rolled-'r' workout — every word demands the vibrating trill.
- Erre con erre cigarro, erre con erre barril; rápido ruedan los carros sobre los rieles del ferrocarril. — The definitive Spanish rr drill — unrelenting double-r from start to finish.
- Parangaricutirimícuaro — Not a sentence but a single word — a legendary 22-letter pronunciation challenge from a r…