"onde falan cartas, calen barbas" meaning in Galician

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  "etymology_text": "\"Where charters speak, beards must shut up\": the facts (or records) are stronger than spoken words.",
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      "expansion": "onde falan cartas, calen barbas",
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  "lang": "Galician",
  "lang_code": "gl",
  "pos": "proverb",
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          "english": "I swear by each and every one that they shall see it livid, even if Justice takes away my oxen from the stables and the cows. I ask for customs and habits, actions speak louder than words.",
          "ref": "1671, Gabriel Feijoo de Araujo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas",
          "text": "Juro por tantos, è cantos / que à andeuer denegrada, / anque a justicia me lebe / os bois da corte, yas bacas. / eu pido vsos, e custumes / calen barbas, falen cartas",
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          "english": "\"Milord, don't get me wrong. Where there is charters, men shut up; what's written can be read; the world, as you teach me, is full of frauds and a piece of paper is always for good, milord.\"",
          "ref": "1880, Marcial Valladares, Majina ou a filla espúrea, page 376",
          "text": "— Señorito, non lle parezca mal. Ond'hai cartas calan barbas; o que s'escribe lese; o mundo, como V. m'enseña, esta cheo de trampóns e un papeliño sempre é bo, señorito.",
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        "actions speak louder than words"
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          "actions speak louder than words",
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        "(idiomatic) actions speak louder than words"
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        {
          "word": "falen cartas, calen barbas"
        }
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  "word": "onde falan cartas, calen barbas"
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  "etymology_text": "\"Where charters speak, beards must shut up\": the facts (or records) are stronger than spoken words.",
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          "english": "I swear by each and every one that they shall see it livid, even if Justice takes away my oxen from the stables and the cows. I ask for customs and habits, actions speak louder than words.",
          "ref": "1671, Gabriel Feijoo de Araujo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas",
          "text": "Juro por tantos, è cantos / que à andeuer denegrada, / anque a justicia me lebe / os bois da corte, yas bacas. / eu pido vsos, e custumes / calen barbas, falen cartas",
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        {
          "english": "\"Milord, don't get me wrong. Where there is charters, men shut up; what's written can be read; the world, as you teach me, is full of frauds and a piece of paper is always for good, milord.\"",
          "ref": "1880, Marcial Valladares, Majina ou a filla espúrea, page 376",
          "text": "— Señorito, non lle parezca mal. Ond'hai cartas calan barbas; o que s'escribe lese; o mundo, como V. m'enseña, esta cheo de trampóns e un papeliño sempre é bo, señorito.",
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        "(idiomatic) actions speak louder than words"
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    {
      "word": "falen cartas, calen barbas"
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  "word": "onde falan cartas, calen barbas"
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