ruin señor cría ruin servidor

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Spanish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˌrwin seˌɲoɾ ˌkɾia ˌrwin seɾbiˈdoɾ/ [ˌrwĩn seˌɲoɾ ˌkɾi.a ˌrwĩn seɾ.β̞iˈð̞oɾ]

Proverb[edit]

ruin señor cría ruin servidor

  1. (figurative) a bad master makes a bad servant; if leadership sets a bad example, their subordinates will follow suit[1][2][3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hernan Nuñez (1804) Refranes o proverbios en castellano, por el órden alfabético (in Spanish), volume 3, Mateo Repullés, Madrid, page 354
  2. ^ Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward (1882) The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix Containing Proverbs from the Latin and Modern Foreign Languages, Law and Ecclesiastical Terms and Significations; Names, Dates and Nationality of Quoted Authors, Etc., with Copious Indexes, Funk & Wagnalls, page 611
  3. ^ Emanuel Strauss (2012) Dictionary of European Proverbs, Routledge, →ISBN, page 461
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