"Braç a braç, en lloc de colze amb colze."

Traducción: Brazo con brazo, en lugar de codo con codo.

[AnCatDubh]

Is this a proverb?

[Oceanotti]

Those are two idioms. Braç a braç means arm in arm, to be in good terms. Colze a colze means side by side. But there is a catch, because they wrote colze amb colze (note the preposition), a word-by-word translation of a Spanish idiom, codo con codo, which means the same. IMO, this exercise tries to advise the learners about the dangers of word-by-word translation of idioms and structures from Spanish, a language from which Catalan gets too much contamination due to the diglossia.

[Guda5]

Se puede decir "en comptes" también en lugar de "en lloc"? En lloc no seria mas como "en lugar" y "en comptes" como "en vez"?