Significado de donde no hay mata no hay patata | Babel Free

Definiciones

One cannot perform a task without having the necessary materials or skills to do so.

Ejemplos

“—Venga, Fernando, vámonos. Donde no hay mata no hay patata y con estos caguetas no hay nada que hacer—fue la despedida de Juan.”

—Come on, Fernando, let's go. Where there is no shrub, there is no potato, and with these cowards there is nothing to do—was Juan's farewell.

“Busque. Busque y verá cómo algo queda. Si no, déjelo sin más dilaciones porque, como dicen en mi tierra, donde no hay mata, no hay patata...”

Search. Search and you will see how something is. If not, leave it without further delay because, as they say in my country, where there is no shrub, there is no potato...

“Este ha sido el único escollo, íntimo, ínfimo, mínimo, que me ha hecho recapacitar en la persistencia de la memoria y en que donde no hay mata, no hay patata.”

This has been the only obstacle, intimate, tiny, minimal, that has made me reconsider the persistence of memory and that where there is no shrub, there is no potato.

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