Meaning of chegar e encher | Babel Free

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used to express that an action is made effortlessly with no waiting time, or either to express plentifulness or instant success

idiomatic

Examples

“—Non se presenta mal a cousa— dirían os herdeiros prás súas faltriqueiras. Mais o demo qu'as urde, ou as cousas que veñen mal, ou por aquelo de que en tóda-las partes hai un anaco de mal camiño, ou porque non sempre corre o ouro pró tesouro, ou porque non se collen troitas coas bragas enxoitas, ou porque os mortos non falan, ou porque chegar i encher non pode ser, ou porque cousa de moitos cóme-na os lobos, fose polo que quixese, o conto foi que dempois d'andar remexendo tódo-los trastes, dempois do promeiro achazgo, non apareceran como restos e reliquias do tesouro máis que tres marianas esmorecidas e malencónicas”

"A promising beginning!" said the heirs to their moneybags. But either because the devil is a schemer, or because one must deal with a bad hand, or either because in every country dogs bite, or because not always the gold runs into the treasure, or either because he that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens, or because dead men tell no tale, or because there is not such a thing as effortlessly profit, or because the common horse is worst shod, whichever way it was, the story was that after rummaging through all the junk, after the first finding, they found no more rests or remnants of treasure beyond three old pennies, withered and melancholic.

“habendo oído dicir ademais qu'aló nas Amérecas ataban os câs con restras de chourizos, coidando que non habría máis que chegar e encher, fixo e refixo de modo e maneira qu'aló se marchou nunha daquelas espediciós qu'iban por conta do goberno da repúbrica Arxentina, préveo un contrato que convirtía os homes en escravos brancos”

having heard that there in the Americas money grew on trees, thinking that it would suffice to arrive and help oneself, he did and redid in such a way and manner that he went there in one of that expeditions that were paid by the government of the Argentine Republic, but not before signing a contract that turned men into white slaves

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