ExpressionsWork & moneyTico
To be stingy.
Word for word: To be a nail.
- How to say it
- ser cla·vo
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More sayings: Work & money
- Más difícil que sacarle caldo a un rielNext to impossible.
- Más enredado que el nudo del diabloHopelessly complicated.
- Lo que por agua viene, por agua se va.Easy come, easy go.
- Camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente.If you don’t stay alert, you miss out.
- Al que madruga, Dios le ayuda.The early bird catches the worm.
- El que madruga come pechuga.Early risers get the best part. A rhyming cousin of the one above.