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English translation: you could charm the hind legs off a donkey

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Spanish term or phrase:	tienes mas labia que un culebrero
English translation:	you could charm the hind legs off a donkey
Entered by:	Amy Barter

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12:24 Jan 8, 2007

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature

Spanish term or phrase: culebrero

Taken from a love letter written in Colombian Spanish: "Tienes mas labia que un culebrero"

Amy Barter KudoZ activity Questions: 155 (none open) (10 closed without grading) Answers: 129 United Kingdom
Local time: 08:06

you could charm the hind leg of a donkey

Explanation:
Don´t know if this would be the appropriate register (there´s a touch of rather admiring criticism in this expression), or if your translation is for British English (suppose it is).

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Note added at 24 mins (2007-01-08 12:48:56 GMT)
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OFF, not OF - yikes!

Selected response from:

aceavila - Noni
Spain
Local time: 09:06

Grading comment

Great suggestion - nice and snappy and made me laugh! The general register is pretty colloquial so I've opted for this one but using "legs" instead of "leg". Thanks aceavila.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +1

cheater

Alfredo Tanús

4 +2

you could charm the hind leg of a donkey

aceavila - Noni

telenovela

Yaiza Peraza

you could talk the balls off a brass monkey

Carol Gullidge

snake-charmer

patricia scott

soap opera

Alan R King

serial / soap opera

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Answers

1 min confidence:

telenovela

Explanation:
Culebrero o culebrón. You speak more than someone in a telenovela.

Yaiza Peraza
Denmark
Local time: 09:06
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8

2 mins confidence:

soap opera

Explanation:
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Alan R King
Spain
Local time: 09:06
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

cheater

Explanation:
A "culebrero" is someone who cheats. There is a phrase in Spanish saying that someone "puts his snake around you" meaning that he is telling lies for you to believe.

Alfredo Tanús
Argentina
Local time: 06:06
Native speaker of:

Spanish

8 mins confidence:

snake-charmer

Explanation:
¿por qué no? un culebrero no podría ser un encantador de serpientes - el meaning es el mismo, que habla mucho y bien pero es engañoso

patricia scott
Spain
Local time: 09:06
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 20

11 mins confidence:

serial / soap opera

Explanation:
telenovela - Diccionario Ingles-Español WordReference.comtelenovela f serial, soap opera - Diccionario Espasa Concise: Español-Inglés English-Spanish © Espasa-Calpe, S.A., Madrid 2000 ...
www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=telenovela - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

JS Online:Milos was one of the stars of "Desire," the telenovela (or serial) that aired every weeknight for nearly three months until it concluded at the start of ...
www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=547228 - 53k - Cached - Similar pages

Smartranslators
Spain
Local time: 09:06
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 72

24 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

you could charm the hind leg of a donkey

aceavila - Noni
Spain
Local time: 09:06
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 60

Grading comment

Great suggestion - nice and snappy and made me laugh! The general register is pretty colloquial so I've opted for this one but using "legs" instead of "leg". Thanks aceavila.

27 mins confidence:

you could talk the balls off a brass monkey

Explanation:
idiomatic, but depends on register required

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Note added at 32 mins (2007-01-08 12:56:39 GMT)
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Also, I forgot,

charm the pants off a snake/stone/...:

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:06
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 211