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Love daydreaming? This Spanish idiom will be your new favorite phrase

Popkin
Oct 02, 2025
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Today I came across a Spanish idiom that is a lot of fun to say. The idiom is “Thinking about the immortality of the crab” and in Spanish: “Pensando en la inmortalidad del cangrejo.” The Wikipedia page dedicated to this idiom explains the backstory.

This phrase is “a humorous way to say that one was not sitting idly but engag…

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