The Best Ever Book of Portuguese Jokes: Lots and Lots of Jokes Specially Repurposed for You-Know-Who

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One of those young people, Catarina Mota, now 21, remembers looking up at the sky and seeing only smoke. The fires killed 66 people. Another simply couldn't choose between them all - and why should Ruth have to? She can just 'entertain' her colleagues with the lot:

If you have a thing or two to say about it or you want to be a critic of their history, you should choose your words very carefully. Looking for a horn on a horse’s head shouldn’t be frustrating at all in Unicornland. On Planet Earth, I’m not so sure. The word reminds us how our mouth can hit just as hard and usually more effectively than our fists! And like reality TV has shown us, a bate-boca can be really entertaining to watch as well. 14. Vira-lata You do that — or more often threaten to — when you denounce something you don’t think is fair. It can also mean “to give someone else’s secrets away”, though that’s a far less common usage. 18. Tirar água do joelho The word pernilongo derives from the standard spelling of the phrase “long leg”, perna longa, which oddly is Bugs Bunny’s name in Portuguese. 13. Bate-boca

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One of my friends went up to my Portuguese dad.... and asked "You're Portuguese, right?" He said "No, I'm Portugoose. There's is only one of me" He says he hopes the young Portuguese win their case but that's not enough for the dramatic policy changes needed to avoid a climate emergency.

You were told to go with the pigs? You were basically asked to go anddie far away. But do not worry! We don’t mean it literally, we say thisa lot between friends when someone is being annoying or upsetting us for some reason. If used in the past tense, it means someone got themselves in big trouble. Portuguese people have a dark sense of humour, don’t you think? The British Ultimatum, in 1890, when the British threatened Portugal with war over their ambitions regarding the territories between Angola and Mozambique, and the Monarchy ceding to the pressure was one of the biggest reasons for the overthrowing of the King and the creation of the First Republic in 1910. Literally it means “the one who is like his own (like his family), does not degenerate”, which can mean that a son will be like a father, something like the English proverb “Like father, like son”.The Portuguese believe every region of Portugal is unique and you can’t know Portugal just by visiting a few cities. It’s definitely worth it to explore just a little bit more and soak up the cultures and diversity. 10. Never say the Portuguese are lazy