personas corcho y personas plomo

English translation: lead people, and cork people

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Spanish term or phrase:personas corcho y personas plomo
English translation:lead people, and cork people
Entered by: Antonio Berbel Garcia

15:38 Apr 22, 2021
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / self-help
Spanish term or phrase: personas corcho y personas plomo
En la vida personal y profesional, sólo existen dos tipos de personas, la personas PLOMO y las personas CORCHO. Tal vez haya simplificado y ya no me fije en si las personas son egoístas o generosas, buenas o malas, listas o tontas: para mi lo importante es rodearme de gente CORCHO, porque el corcho flota y el plomo se hunde.

Cuando en nuestra vida estamos rodeados de gente corcho siempre saldremos a flote, porque la gente corcho a veces nos volvemos plomo pero el corcho que nos rodea nos saca a flote, pero la gente plomo no se vuelve corcho y termina hundiendo todo lo que le rodea.
Antonio Berbel Garcia
Local time: 21:06
lead people, and cork people
Explanation:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plomo
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/corcho

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philgoddard
United States
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Muchísimas gracias a todxs
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4 +2lead people, and cork people
philgoddard
4people who sink and people who float
neilmac


  

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lead people, and cork people


Explanation:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plomo
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/corcho



philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
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Muchísimas gracias a todxs

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Althea Draper: Like this https://aleteia.org/2021/01/23/what-kind-of-person-do-you-wa...
1 min
  -> Yes, Debbie Downer and Positive Pete.

agree  neilmac
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people who sink and people who float


Explanation:
I'd rather be a swimmer myself, but I do enjoy a lazy float on a hot summers day.

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Note added at 16 hrs (2021-04-23 07:51:08 GMT)
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Like the "natural floaters or natural sinkers" cited in the linked article.

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Note added at 16 hrs (2021-04-23 07:53:40 GMT)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZklwTGZutc


    https://rec.sport.swimming.narkive.com/Ba2U0yNp/people-who-sink-vs-people-who-float
neilmac
Spain
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