Riñen las comadres y dicense las verdades. The gossips fall out and tell each other truths.
Rogar al santo hasta pasar del trance. To pray to the saint until the danger is past.
Ruego de grande fuerza es que te hace. A great man’s entreaty is a command.
Ruegos porque cante, y ruegos porque calle. Entreaties to get him to sing, and entreaties to leave off.
Ruego y derecho hacen el hecho. Entreaty and right do the deed.
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Sabedlo, coles, que espinacas hay en la olla. Know, cabbages, that there is spinach in the stew.
Saberlo como su Paternoster. He knows it as well as his Lord’s Prayer.
Saca lo tuyo al mercado, y uno te dirá prieto y otro blanco. Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.