ruin señor cría ruin servidor
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proverb
[edit]- (figurative) a bad master makes a bad servant; if leadership sets a bad example, their subordinates will follow suit[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Hernan Nuñez (1804) Refranes o proverbios en castellano, por el órden alfabético (in Spanish), volume 3, Mateo Repullés, Madrid, page 354
- ^ Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward (1882) The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix Containing Proverbs from the Latin and Modern Foreign Languages, Law and Ecclesiastical Terms and Significations; Names, Dates and Nationality of Quoted Authors, Etc., with Copious Indexes, Funk & Wagnalls, page 611
- ^ Emanuel Strauss (2012) Dictionary of European Proverbs, Routledge, →ISBN, page 461