Thread: De que vuelan, vuelan...

Originally Posted by Cotty

Gracias Xóchi, esa que pusiste me recuerda más a salir de su guarida.

Está difícil no? Porque claro conlleva un elemento de creer en brujas, fantasmas, etc.

Ojalá a alguien aquí se le ilumine el bombillo como decimos aquí.

Nos vemos

Yo pensé que se trataba de apurarse a hacer algo. En México no usamos la expresión de que vuelan, vuelan... como tal, pero sí decimos salir volando cuando tenemos prisa.

¿Entonces tiene que ver con brujas?

I can’t think of an exact equivalent, but “one cannot be too careful” comes close. Maybe a more appropriate saying will come to me later.

I’m not superstitious, but one cannot be too careful.

I don’t believe that’s a possibility, but maybe we should do it – just in case.

I’m a Christian, but there are things we do not understand.

There IS the all-purpose phrase:
"Surely you don't believe in this idiocy!"
"I dunno, I'm just sayin'"

Ty G.

“one cannot be too careful”

I'd say one can never be too careful.

I think I fell short on my explanation of the actual saying. I kind of referred to where it comes from but did not mention that we actually use it for situations in which even thought we don't believe something can happen, there is always a possibility that it will happen.

Hence, this one here conveys the general meaning of the expression

I don’t believe that’s a possibility, but maybe we should do it – just in case.

yet it lacks the witty, funny tone of it. But you did undoubtely grasp the meaning of it.