Meaning of listo coma un allo | Babel Free

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smart as a whip

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“Afonso: E como està o afillado? Christobo: Esse jà quer ir a Escola, pero porque non tèn sayo està decote na Eyra para escorrentar o Gando. Afonso: Pois esso non e ben feyto, porque e vivo coma vn allo, fino coma vnha pimenta, e se quer ser Lecenceado an que venda os bois do jugo lle teño de dar estado.”

Afonso: How is doing my godchild? Christobo: He already want to go to school, but since he has no robe is all the time in the field to drive away the livestock. Afonso: But this is not correct, because he is smart as a whip, acute as a pepper grain, and if he wants to be a bachelor, even if I have to sell the yoke oxen, I ought to give him estate.

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