[Footnote 100: #En mi vida# is an expression always understood as negative, even when no negative word appears in the sentence. There are several other such expressions introduced by en or por.]
[Footnote 101: #Lo que#, how.]
[Footnote 102: #se me va la cabeza#, I am losing my mind.]
[Footnote 103: #Casa con dos puertas, mala# (es) #de guardar#, an old Spanish proverb, used by Calderón as the title of an intrigue play.]
[Footnote 104: #a no contar con usted#, unless we had had your assistance.]
[Footnote 105: #En el moral, ni entro ni salgo#, the ethical side is no affair of mine.]
[Footnote 106: #harán … nieblas de las montañas#, difficulties will melt away before you; lit. 'you will make mists of mountains'.]
[Footnote 107: Vox populi, vox Dei, universal report must be true; lit. 'The voice of the people is the voice of God'.]
[Footnote 108: #Mientras más amigos, más claros#, the better friends we are, the more frank we should be.]
[Footnote 109: #Ahí se le fué la burra a su futuro suegro de usted.#
Compare the Uncle Remus idiom, "There's where he dropped his moneypus".]