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raferguson

Sep 11, 2006, 4:50 PM

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Codo a Codo

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I was reading about a speech by Calderon to the governors of the states of Mexico, and noticed a phrase,

trabajar de manera coordinada y codo a codo

I was a little confused, because in English we would say "work shoulder to shoulder", not "work elbow to elbow". (I even looked up codo to make sure that I knew what it meant). But of course this is an expression, and it is not surprising that the details of the expression would vary from language to language, even when the concept is the same.

No big thing, but it was a new one on me.

Richard

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quevedo

Sep 11, 2006, 6:37 PM

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Re: [raferguson] Codo a codo y hombro con hombro

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Both expressions are widely used in Spanish.

[...] ahora
tal vez andamos juntas,
hombro con hombro en busca
de lo que ya no existe [...]
Meira del Mar

Y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos.
Mario Benedetti

Also codo con codo:

Codo con codo, hombro con hombro, somos otro modo.
Gerardo Paz Delgado

Translations more than welcome.

Saludos,

Quevedo

(This post was edited by quevedo on Sep 11, 2006, 6:40 PM)

esperanza

Sep 11, 2006, 7:49 PM

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Re: [quevedo] Codo a codo y hombro con hombro

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Ay mi buen amigo Quevedo, apuntaste un trocito del poema de Mario Benedetti que me encanta, me encanta. Empezé a apuntarlo yo pero no salió como quería y me cambié de idea.

...y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos...

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