Phrasebook sentences (adejctives), you include your accepted phrase! :Más largo que un día sin pan

Question

Let's start on adjectives, I will think of a few in Spanish and you should supply the most idiomatic translation in English.

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Expression of the day:

Más largo/larga que un día sin pan

This actually means: Look, this guy si taller than?? This chick is taller than..??

I have a student from Nicaragua and he is asking me right now: Whaaaaat???? jeje, this is Spanish from Spain

Supply the most idiomatic translation in English

FAct is, a Spanish person always eats with bread, so if there is no bread, the day gets terribly long...the reference to the hight of a man, I have no idea why;9 - 00494d19, May 2, 2010

.... taller than Tom Cruise? ;))) - Issabela, May 2, 2010

Because eating bread is so common there, is that the reason why you also have "pan comido"? - Rikko, May 2, 2010

Good one Issa!! :) - Jason7R, May 2, 2010

Answer 1

No saying with taller than? hmmm, this will go unanswered then

All I can think of is 'taller than a giraffe' but it doesn't have the same ring as in Spanish. - margaretbl, May 2, 2010

Well, it was a good idea anyway. - Yeser007, May 2, 2010

Answer 2

In that Frank Sinatra song, "All The Way", there is that line "taller than the tallest tree is...", but I don't know if it is used outside of that song.

Answer 3

Sorry. I can't think of any phrase in English that uses "he's taller than a....."

cool drink of water. - samdie, May 2, 2010

Answer 4

Más largo/larga que un día sin pan

Could it mean..."longer than a day without bread"...meaning that the day (or time) seems insufferably long and empty,,,who can imagine a full day without the important staple of bread?? L.

That's exactly what it means. The extension to being 'tall' is, essentially, a play on words. - samdie, May 2, 2010

Answer 5

Sorry, Heidita, but I don't think I understand what you really want us to do. Are you asking if there is an existing English idiom that conveys the same meaning as "he/she is as tall as..."?

Answer 6

Well to me it should literally mean he/she is longer/bigger than a day without bread so I agree with your man Flint in that it is a wierd one.

Any suggestions for a translation? Taller than ...??? - 00494d19, May 2, 2010