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Meaning of la purga benito

la purga benito: They say that a certain Benito went to the pharmacy to get a purgative that the doctor had prescribed. He still did not have the medicine in his hands, when he felt the need to evacuate, so the phrase was left to refer to something that produces immediate effects.; Exemplary punishment, public derision by means of which the Holy Peninsular Inquisition (among others) intends to apply the purgatory of the imaginary of Classical Greece. Public exhibition of the condemned by means of forced placement of a Sambenito. The sambenito was a garment originally worn by Catholic penitents to show public repentance for their sins, and later by the Spanish Inquisition to single out those condemned by the court, so it became a symbol of infamy.; Immediate remedy for any problem. Is used in two different popular expressions: " This is like the purge Benito " and " nor that the purge was Benito ". The first expresses admiration for the remedy and in the second it complains to the impatient that expect a quick solution. The full saying is: the purge of Benito, or Fernando, who was at work from the pharmacy.

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