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"Charm birds out of trees"

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Is there a phrase in Spanish similar to this? I'm trying to write a piece in Spanish, the person can be persuasive but if connotation makes a difference I'm going more for general charisma than specifically persuasiveness. There may already be an answer here to this question, it's very possible that I looked wrong. Thanks!

En inglés, para una persona con mucha carisma, se dice que esa persona "puede persuadir que los aves salgan de los arboles", o algo así, es una persona muy persuasiva y con mucha carisma. ¿Hay una frase parecida en español?

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updated Jan 28, 2015
posted by bailarina95

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Here is a suggestion, a mixture of metaphors: Con su encanto puede conseguir todo, hasta los aves se dejan llevar de los árboles por su encanto// se rinden ante su encanto.

updated Jan 28, 2015
edited by annierats
posted by annierats
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It seems to me that there are many ways of expressing this idea in English, so perhaps you could translate one of these literally to get your point across. In any event, often new ways of saying things are preferable and more colourful than simply borrowing commonplace, hackneyed idioms.

For example: Era tan persuasivo que podría vender salchichas al carnicero...

updated Jan 28, 2015
posted by Faldaesque
or coal to Newcastle.. - annierats, Jan 28, 2015
Jeje... Or fish & chips to Glasgow... - Faldaesque, Jan 28, 2015