tarde piaches

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Literally, you tweeted late. Attested since the 15th century in an, otherwise, Spanish text.[1] Explained as a tale in which a Galician soldier, after eating an egg, heard a chick tweeting.

Pronunciation

Idiom

tarde piaches (tarde piaches)

  1. you spoke too late, it's too late (for a proposed action)
    • 1983, Manuel Casado Nieto, Refendas de vida e morte:
      –Como llo pagóu en talón, haberá que dar orde urxente ao Banco de que o anulen. –Tarde piaches, Canelas. O portugués cobróu o talón
      “Since he paid it in a check, we should order urgently the bank to cancel it.” “Too late, Canelas: the Portuguese guy already cashed it.”

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “piar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos