The Spanish phrase tiene mas lana que un borrego means someone is quite wealthy. Literally, the phrase means “he has more wool than a lamb.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “More Wool than a Lamb”
In Spanish, if you want to say somebody is really rich, you can say,
Tiene más lana que un borrego, which translates as…
More wool than a lamb.
Exactly, yes.
And wool is…
Lana in Spanish is slang for cash.
Oh, slang for cash, yeah.
Yeah, more wool than a lamb.
The reason I knew the word borrego is because there’s a restaurant called El Borrego.
On El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego,
Which has the best burrito.
It’s a lamb burrito.
It is so good.
And as I recall, it’s got sheep or lambs on the outside.
I don’t remember that.
I’m only like narrowly focused on this burrito
That’s going to arrive.
And I’m just driving past thinking, oh.
