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Meaning of pelillos a la mar




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pelillos a la mar
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This phrase is interpreted as "end of a dispute or discussion between parties, by mutual agreement". The legend gives its origin in ancient Greece, where there was the custom of settling differences (and even wars) by celebrating a banquet with lambs contributed by both sides, which were cut some strands of hair and thrown to the wind to take them to the sea, all to symbolize that with them their grudges went. Perhaps through the Romans, or later thanks to literature, in Spain appeared the gesture of pulling out a hair and blowing it from the palm of the hand with the expression "hairs to the sea" to end a confrontation. See pelito pa'la vieja .

  




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