xente nova e leña verde, todo é fume

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Galician

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Etymology

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Literally, young people and green firewood: it's all smoke

Proverb

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xente nova e leña verde, todo é fume

  1. (idiomatic) used to assert, wrongly or otherwise, that young people tend to underdeliver and to boast

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