The Spanish phrase aburrido como una ostra or “as bored as an oyster” is an apt simile because what does an oyster do all day? Only filtering water is no kind of life. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Spanish “Aburrido Como Una Ostra” Means “Bored as an Oyster””
I got an email the other day from my friend Ray who grew up in Mexico City and I wrote him back and I said, I haven’t heard from you in a while.
How are you doing?
And he immediately responded, aburrido como una ostra, which means bored as an oyster.
And I just love that phrase.
Oh, that’s bored.
That’s very bored.
Sitting there filtering water all day, right?
Right.
Spitting out the occasional grain of sand or maybe making a furrow.
Yeah.
That was so picturesque.
It just stopped me in my tracks.
Bored as an oyster.
Bored as an oyster.
Yeah.
Say it again in Spanish.
Aburrido como una ostra.
Bored as an oyster.
Very good.
