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qui vole un oeuf vole un boeuf

Portuguese translation: quem rouba um tostão, rouba um milhão

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French term or phrase:qui vole un oeuf vole un boeuf
Portuguese translation:quem rouba um tostão, rouba um milhão
Entered by: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida

13:10 May 23, 2014
French to Portuguese translations [PRO]
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French term or phrase: qui vole un oeuf vole un boeuf
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Nathalie Tomaz
France
Local time: 09:38
quem rouba um tostão, rouba um milhão
Explanation:
Diria assim em PT(pt)...
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 08:38
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4quem rouba um tostão, rouba um milhão
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
4cesteiro que faz um cesto faz um cento
Gil Costa
4quem experimenta uma vez vira freguês
Francisco Fernandes
4perdido por um, perdido por mil
Helena Guimarães
3a ocasião faz o ladrão
Diana Salama


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
cesteiro que faz um cesto faz um cento


Explanation:
Sug.

Gil Costa
Portugal
Local time: 08:38
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 74
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
quem experimenta uma vez vira freguês


Explanation:
Sug.

Francisco Fernandes
Brazil
Local time: 04:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 3
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
perdido por um, perdido por mil


Explanation:
quem rouba um, depois de ser ladão, tanto faz roubar um como mil

Helena Guimarães
Portugal
Local time: 08:38
Native speaker of: Portuguese
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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
quem rouba um tostão, rouba um milhão


Explanation:
Diria assim em PT(pt)...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 08:38
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 118
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Roger Chadel
26 mins
  -> Merci, Roger!
agree  Sindia Alves
45 mins
  -> Obrigada, Sindia!
agree  imatahan
55 mins
  -> Obrigada, Isabel!
agree  Luis Alvarez
2 days 20 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Luís!
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39 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
a ocasião faz o ladrão


Explanation:
mais uma alternativa.

Diana Salama
Local time: 04:38
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in FrenchFrench
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