GHOST OF SPAIN

These are some funny sentences that I found reading the book...

1. Tapando vergüenzas → Covering up embarrassments

2. Mucho ruido y pocas nueces → a lot of noise but few walnuts

3. ¡Joder, que no nos toquen los cojones! → Fuck, why don't they leave our balls alone?

4. Me cago en su puta madre... → I shit on his whore-mother...

5. Traje de luces → A suit of lights

6. Secretos a voces → Voiced secrets

7. Ni tonto, ni perezoso → Neither stupid, nor lazy

8. Cosas del pueblo → Village matters

9. Nostálgicos → “The few who still feel nostalgia for the Caudillo”

10. Casposos (fascistas) → “the dandruff-ridden”

11. No tiene pelos en la lengua → Has no hairs on his tongue

12. Con la boca pequeña → With a small mouth

13. Ley de Punto Final → Full Stop Law

14. Prensa rosa → Pink press

15. Tocando palmas → Beating out a complex, staccato, machine-gun rhythm with their hands

16. Si les da la gana → If they feel “the urge”

17. Camarón de la Isla → The Shrimp of the Island

18. Clubes de alterne → The brothels that dot Spain's main highways

19. Pisa fuerte niña, que paga el ayuntamiento → Tread firmly, “niña”, the town council's paying

20. La paya te va a pinchar → The non-gypsy, as the nurse was known, will stick a needle into you

21. Mosto → Sweet grape juice

22. Trasnochar → To cross the night

23. Ser de pueblo → To be from the village