quien tiene boca, se equivoca

Spanish

Etymology

Literally, “he who has mouth, is wrong”, playing on the internal rhyme boca (“mouth”)/equivoca (“he/she mistakes”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kjen ˌtje.ne ˈβo.ka | se e.kiˈβo.ka/

Proverb

quien tiene boca, se equivoca

  1. When speaking, it is normal to say something wrong. Everything one says cannot always be right or true.
    Hypernym: errar es humano (“to err is human”)
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