Thread: Wierd sayings
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Old 10-29-2005, 01:39 AM   #3
Tonchi
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In the US we say "happy as a clam". In Mexico it's "happy as a worm." Of course, worms are probably less obviously happy than clams are, but in Mexico they like their sayings to rhyme. Thus they changed it to "feliz como un lombriz". Now that I think about it, few of our common sayings rhyme.
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