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Spanish Word of the Day Archive
Tuesday March 17, 2009
codo, noun:
elbow
Los codos are your elbows.
Apoyó los codos en las rodillas y se concentró en la lectura.
She leant her elbows on her knees and concentrated on reading.
I wonder if you’ve noticed how often Spanish and English use different colorful phrases to express similar ideas. If you talk a lot in English it’s a blue streak, or nineteen to the dozen, but in Spanish, it’s hablar por los codos:
Habla por los codos y me ha mareado.
He talks a blue streak and he’s made my head spin.
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