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[ailime]

Como podemos dizer "Nadar, nadar e morrer na praia"? Quais as possíveis opções?

Agradeço desde já!

[donay mendonça]

Ailime,

Sugestão:

Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.


A ship that has run aground may possibly get back off again, but if it hit during a storm it may get pounded to pieces. Any sort of undertaking can get shipwrecked (naufragar), and the unlucky who are shipwrecked may swim, swim, swim, and die on the beach (nadar, nadar, nadar e morrer na praia). This is said of someone who worked their fingers to the bone, almost succeeded, and as we say “snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory,” and frequently used of soccer teams (the archetypical example for Americans would be the Boston Red Sox).[Tom Moore]

Boa sorte!

[The freedomly]

What goes around, comes around.

[Andrerson Vieira]

The freedomly, acho que a expressão que você citou significa aqui se faz; aqui se paga.

[The freedomly]

The freedomly, acho que a expressão que você citou significa aqui se faz; aqui se paga.

Yes it can be aswell, but depending on the context, i wonder it also can be both meanings.