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Meaning of poner a alguien a caer de un burro




John Rene Plaut

poner a alguien a caer de un burro
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PUT SOMEONE DOWN FROM A DONKEY. The original version mentions a passage from the Bible (Acts of the Apostles , 9-1 , 9 ) in which Saul (who will later be St. Paul) goes on a donkey to Damascus to persecute those who follow Jesus for a divine time he tears him down from his donkey and in that instance he is perished from his mistake. Then, the use of the saying points to someone who has been oorphially wrong and finally realizes their mistake. The modern version is gossip about someone, criticize him harshly, skin him. Some synonyms, words or similar expressions can be put your boss to fall from a donkey, leaving him on the ground

  



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