pedra no sapato

Portuguese

FWOTD – 20 January 2013

Etymology

stone + no (in the) + sapato (shoe)

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɛ.dɾɐ nu sa.ˈpa.tu/

Noun

pedra no sapato f (plural pedras no sapato)

  1. a minor but constant problem; an annoyance
    • 2008, Antonio Pithon Cyrino, Entre a ciência e a experiência: Uma cartografia do autocuidado no diabetes, Editora UNESP, page 120:
      Eu diria que seria uma pedra no sapato o diabetes, né?
      I’d say that it would be an annoyance to have diabetes, wouldn’t it?
  2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see pedra, no, sapato.

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