Frases españolas sin igual en inglés...
In English we use certain words or phrases that we borrow directly from other languages that have no precise equivalent in English, most notably from French, then probably from Latin, then perhaps from German, e.g. raison d'être, déjà vu, esprit de corps, tempus fugit, Zeitgeist, Schadenfreude etc. I can't think of many such examples from Spanish, maybe mañana, which sometimes we use to refer to the sense of something needing done but lacking urgency.
Can folk suggest words/phrases in Spanish that express ideas with no direct equivalent in English ?
Does Spanish use English words/phrases with no direct equivalent in Spanish ?
Sometimes foreign languages use English-seeming words/phrases that we don't actually use in English, e.g. I believe French uses rugbymans for rugby players even although we don't say rugbyman in English (& even if we did the plural would be rugbymen) (of course, we use French-seeming words in English that aren't actually French, like cul-de-sac & ensuite)...
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How about "burrito" how do you say that in English? a few other items like taco, pupusa birria, tortilla, enchilada and so forth.
Other words which may be "illegal aliens" but are here to stay are
Macho, nada, patio, plus the names of places, Sacramento, Colorado, Florida and more like those. My brain just froze. I may be back with some more later.
Gettin' old I guess.
Do I understand this question correctly? Help me, Falda!
Dani
Wow, this is such an interesting post. Thanks.
If anyone is interested, I have three flashcard sets for Arabic derived words here on SD.
In Bolivia one of the indigenous languages is Quechua. (there are about 30)
From that language alone there are many words used on a near daily basis by Spanish speakers.
choclo maiz entero
vizcacha rodente que vive en huecos
tambo posada
huaca piedras juntadas como marca
chicha cerveza de maiz
api bebida caliente de maiz - muy sabrosa
chullo gorro tejida de lana con alas para calientar las orejas
charqui resaca
charango tipo de guitarra, de vez en cuando todavia hecho con la cascara de armadillo
zampoña "panpipes" - no conozco una palabra espanol
quena tipo de flauta vertical
vicuña
llama
I don´t know if I understood you well.
In Spanish we have words from other languages, for example french:
Carnet: Identify Card
Argot: Slang
We also have a lot of english words, most of them about computer tecnology:
Hardware
Bistec - From the english form “beef-steak
Sándwich
There are hundreds of them
But probably, the language which has done the greatest contribution to the Spanish language (apart of latin and ancient greek) is the old arabic. As most of you know, the Arabians lived in Spain for seventh hundreds (711-1492) and their heritage is visible nowadays.
Almohada: Pillow
Aljibe: Cistern
Tabique: Wall
And more than four thousand Spanish words comes from Arabic.
Sorry for the drag 
but I like this theme a lot.
If anybody is interested: Here
Si, todo es bueno. Sin embargo, food is a given because everyone eats different stuff in each country... Let's try & put forth some IDEAS that are uniquely expressed in Spanish, maybe in the way that 'cogito ergo sum' only really resonates in Latin. For example, I've heard told that Spanish is the only language in the world that has a specific word for the kind of liquid circle that a glass leaves on a table... Is this true ? 
