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"donde hubo fuego, cenizas quedan"

English translation: where there was fire, ashes remain.

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Spanish term or phrase:	donde hubo fuego, cenizas quedan
English translation:	where there was fire, ashes remain.
Entered by:	mirta

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00:23 Nov 5, 2003

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Spanish term or phrase: "donde hubo fuego, cenizas quedan"

Cómo podría traducir ese dicho?
Gracias!

mirta KudoZ activity Questions: 430 (2 open) (4 without valid answers) (5 closed without grading) Answers: 835 Argentina
Local time: 04:05

Where there was fire ashes remain

Explanation:
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Selected response from:

Nitza Ramos
United States
Local time: 03:05

Grading comment

Thanks!
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +8

Where there was fire ashes remain

Nitza Ramos

4 +8

Where there's smoke, there's fire

Parrot

There is no smoke without fire.

Fanny_C

Where a fire once blazed, only ashes remain

Jane Lamb-Ruiz

Ashes are all that remain of the fire.

MLG

Answers

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

donde hubo fuego, cenizas quedan Where there's smoke, there's fire

Explanation:
about the closest I can come.

Parrot
Spain
Local time: 09:05
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 7613

19 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

Where there was fire ashes remain

Explanation:
.

Nitza Ramos
United States
Local time: 03:05
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 176

Grading comment

Thanks!

6 hrs confidence:

Ashes are all that remain of the fire.

Explanation:
Something more like this, the literal translation is correct, just doesn't sound right.

MLG
United States
Local time: 00:05
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 137

11 hrs confidence:

There is no smoke without fire.

Explanation:
Just another possibility.
e.g. "He claims that they were just good friends and that they never slept together but there's no smoke without fire, that's what I say." Cambrige Int. Dict. of Idioms.

Fanny_C
Local time: 04:05
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 8

14 hrs confidence:

Where a fire once blazed, only ashes remain

Explanation:
proper literary translation of the phrase...

Jane Lamb-Ruiz
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in pair: 7709

Grading comment

it's not reflecting what the saying means in Spanish

The asker has declined this answer
Comment: it's not reflecting what the saying means in Spanish

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