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Examples
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But my winner is no “tuerto”, he has both eyes and he knows how to use them.
Two Tough contests 2005
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Remember, Jorge, En el pais de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey »
Two Tough contests 2005
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As we say in Venezuela, “en el pais de los ciegos, el tuerto (2) es rey” (in the country of the blind, the one eyed is king).
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But my winner is no “tuerto”, he has both eyes and he knows how to use them.
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As we say in Venezuela, “en el pais de los ciegos, el tuerto (2) es rey” (in the country of the blind, the one eyed is king).
Two Tough contests 2005
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Remember, Jorge, En el pais de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey »
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Spanish proverb is exemplified: _ "En tierra de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey" _ (In the blind country the one-eyed are kings).
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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Granada; of a very powerful prince with one eye (Indio tuerto), and of animals less than stags, but fit for riding like Spanish horses.
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Spaniards style it, tuerto; he, however, far outshone the other in cleanliness of turban, haik, and trousers.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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I have heard the ballad of Alonzo Guzman chanted in Danish, by a hind in the wilds of Jutland; but once speaking of "the Faithful" to some inhabitants of Tarifa, they replied that they had never heard of Guzman the faithful of Tarifa, but were acquainted with Alonzo Guzman, "the one-eyed" (el tuerto), and that he was one of the most villainous arrieros on the Cadiz road.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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