I WANT NEVER GETS
What is the bilingual lexicographer to do with the phrase: ante el vicio de pedir, la virtud de no dar , with its variation contra el vicio de pedir, está la virtud de no dar ? Collins very wisely abstains. Tureng Dictionary online poses an answer which, although not bad, gets no cigar again: “a shameless beggar must have a short denial”, taken from the Centro Virtual Cervantes, which is never to be trusted. WordPerfect passes, and even Seco´s Diccionario fraseológico keeps mum on this one. And so on. There must be a similar way to express the rebuff we must give those “gimme pigs” in English, now that we know how to do so in Spanish. How about I want doesn´t get , or I want never gets ? In Brewtiful (Sept. 13, 2011) a mother says: “ How many times have you all heard this phrase? I was always one of these people that said I would never be like mum, I would never say the things she said and now I found myself saying them all the time… Without fail though my favorite phrase comes...