Ch 51 · Lesson 10

agua or fuego?

Fixed phrases are fixed. Swap the noun and it stops being Spanish.

The rule

A fixed phrase is a settled pairing, and the pairing IS the phrase: change the noun and a Spanish speaker hears a mistake rather than a variation. is completely at home. is obvious. is to vouch for someone. None of them can be reasoned out, and all of them come up constantly.

Pick the right one

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Pick the right one: agua or fuego.

  1. Está como pez en el .

  2. Eso está más claro que el .

  3. No hay que jugar con : te puedes quemar.

  4. Pondría la mano en el por ella.

  5. Nunca digas de esta no beberé.

  6. Todo eso es pasada.

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