Poetic Spanish Saying

The poetic Spanish phrase “nadie te quita lo bailado” expresses the idea that once you’ve made a memory, you’ll always have it, no matter what. Literally, it translates as “no one can take away what you’ve danced.” This is part of a complete episode.

Transcript of “Poetic Spanish Saying”

I had a conversation with a friend of mine who lives in Mexico who just spent a lot of money to go back to the United States for a family celebration.

And she was kind of questioning whether she should have spent all that money for that particular event.

And what I told her was, Nadie te quita lo bailado, which means nobody can take from you what you’ve already danced.

Oh, nice.

Isn’t that nice?

Nobody can take the dance away from you.

It’s done, right?

You did the thing you needed to do.

Yeah.

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