In Brazil, if you want to talk about going someplace quickly and coming back in a flash, you can use the idiomatic Portuguese phrase ir num pé e voltar no outro, literally “to go on one foot and return on the other.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “To Go on One Foot and Return on the Other”
In Brazil, if you want to say that something’s very close, you can use a phrase that translates as to go on one foot and return on the other. I just love that.
Oh yeah, that’s fantastic. That makes perfect sense because you can’t only do that so far.
Yeah, right. You just step and then you return? Kind of like to the neighbors and back maybe, depending on how close you are.
Or the next room.
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