Meaning of donde esta la biblioteca | Babel Free

Definitions

Stock phrase used to denote someone's poor knowledge of Spanish.

Examples

“Ola, como esta usted? Donde esta la biblioteca? Everyone who took high school Spanish knows that those phrases are probably all they recognize from their teenaged efforts to learn one of the three most spoken languages in the world.”

“"Dónde está la biblioteca, Pedro?" "What?" "I'm thinking of opening a new Globo Gym down in Mexico City, so I've been boning up on my Spanish."”

““Donde esta la biblioteca?” has become so overused to depict people with a very limited understanding of Spanish that it really pulls me out of the scene when Foggy says it to Mrs. Cardenas. Totally unnecessary line.”

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