Escupiendo los pulmones
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Can anyone help me with these sentenses?
"Dios, no puedes ni hacerte la idea de lo que me imaginaba cada vez que te fumabas una mierda de éstas. Volvía a ver a mi padre en la cama de hospital, escupiendo los pulmones en las sábanas."
I am not sure about "escupiendo los pulmones". Is it a metaphor or one can really spit his lung?The father in the story had lung cancer.
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updated ENE 11, 2010
posted by oattochan
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Escupir can also mean to "to cough up". We say in English that he is "coughing his lungs up" so I wonder if the Spanish say it also.
updated ENE 11, 2010
edited by Eddy
posted by Eddy
Yup. Same idea. - samdie, ENE 11, 2010
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It's a euphemism.
updated ENE 11, 2010
posted by CalvoViejo
