These idioms are used on a daily basis in Portugal.

The messages they convey are, for the most part, universal, and many other cultures have their equivalents.

The uniqueness of these idioms is in the way the messages are expressed.

The choice of words, in many cases, exposes traces of a culture centered around farming, fishing and Catholicism.

Others escape that pattern simply to display a playful choice of words. 

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