Gustavo Eulalio <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
[about idioms]
>         Portugese has lots. Off the top of my mind, I can say:
>=20
>         - Inventar a roda. (To invent the wheel)
>           To work hard to make something that had already been done and
>           could have been used.
>=20
>         - Fazer tempestade num copo d'=E1gua. (To make a storm in a gla=
ss
>           of water)
>           To worry excessively about something.

Oh, I think I've heard that in Spanish too, both "hacer una
tormenta" (make a storm) and "ahogarse" (drown).

>=20
>         - Ver chifre em cabe=E7a de cavalo. (To see horns in a horse's
>           head)
>           To see a problem where there's none.

The closest one I recall here is "Buscarle la quinta pata
al gato" (To look for the cat's fifth leg), meaning "to look
for problems, to split hairs".


--Pablo Flores

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