xente nova e leña verde, todo é fume
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Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “young people and green firewood: it's all smoke”
Proverb
[edit]xente nova e leña verde, todo é fume
- (idiomatic) used to assert, wrongly or otherwise, that young people tend to underdeliver and to boast
References
[edit]- “xente nova e leña verde, todo é fume” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.