Idioms

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

It's better to have a lesser but certain advantage than the possibility of a greater one that may come to nothing.

Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando

A word is enough to the wise

  You only have to hint something to wise people in order to get them to understand it

 

A buen entendedor pocas palabras bastan

Barking dogs never bite

Someone who makes threats all the time seldom carries out the threats

Perro ladrador poco mordedor

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Better safe than sorry

You should be cautious, if you are not, you may regret it

Más vale prevenir que curar

Early bird catches the warm

If you wake up and get to work early, you will succeed

A quien madruga Dios le ayuda

Let the cat out of the bag

To reveal a secret or a surprise by accident

Irse de la lengua

Kill two birds with one stone

To solve two problems at one time with a single action

Matar dos pájaros de un tiro

It´s not good crying over spilt milk/ there’s nm point crying over spilt milk

You should not get upset about something bad that has happened that you cannot change

A lo hecho pecho

In for a penny, in for a pound

You have started something or are

involved in it, you should complete

the work although it has become more

difficult that what you had expected

De perdidos al río

Like father like son

Fathers and sons resemble each other, and sons tend to do what their fathers did before them

De tal palo tal astilla

The straw that broke the camel’s back

The final difficulty in a series

La gota que colma el vaso

Finding a needle in a haystack

To be difficult or even imipossible

Buscar una aguja en un pajar

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”  Frank Herbert