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📱 Day 2: A few words disappear, the easy ones first
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🌟 Why Spain, Mexico, and the Caribbean don't say this the same way
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🏃 The 1976 movie that shares this exact phrase's name
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Cría cuervos _ te sacarán los ojos
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CULTURAL MOMENT 🍅
This saying is old.
Old enough that it shows up in Spanish literature and even gave its name to a famous 1976 Spanish film, Cría Cuervos, about a girl growing up in a house full of grown-up betrayal.
That's how deep this phrase runs in Spanish culture. It's not slang. It's not new. It's the kind of line that gets passed down, word for word, for generations.
You'll hear the full version most in Spain, often from someone older, delivered with real weight.
In Mexico and much of Latin America, people tend to shorten it. Someone will just say "cría cuervos" and stop there, trusting that you know the ending.
In some households, you'll even hear a slightly different close: instead of "te sacarán los ojos," people say "y te comerán los ojos," "and they'll eat your eyes," which is more common in some Caribbean Spanish. Same warning, sharper image.
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