no ver tres en un burro
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “not see three on a donkey”. The story goes that in the beginning of the 20th century in Andalusia, to test someone's sight, a person was given a photo with three people sitting on a donkey. If the person could not make them out, they would have been declared to have had bad sight.
Verb
[edit]no ver tres en un burro (first-person singular present no veo tres en un burro, first-person singular preterite no vi tres en un burro, past participle no visto tres en un burro)
- (idiomatic) to be blind as a bat
Further reading
[edit]- “no ver tres en un burro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10