Topic: Portuguese

"O fracasso cheira mal."

Translation:The failure smells bad.

July 10, 2013

4 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/jonathan.j5

    Is this a Portuguese idiom?

    July 10, 2013
    https://www.duolingo.com/Paulenrique
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      Hmmmm this sentence smells bad :/ ive never seen before!

      July 10, 2013
      https://www.duolingo.com/WesleyAlcoforado

        hahahahaha

        Me neither... it seems like a literal translation.

        July 11, 2013
        https://www.duolingo.com/jonathan.j5

          I just had a thought, there is an English phrase "reek of failure" and reek would translate into smells bad, could we have a garbled translation here?

          July 13, 2013
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