English-Portuguese translations for columbus

ColomboTalvez estejamos a debater agora uma questão que, mais do que o ovo de Colombo, é a omeleta de Colombo.Maybe now we are discussing something which is not so much a Columbus egg as a Columbus omelette. A União para o Mediterrâneo é o ovo de Colombo, lá isso é! The Union for the Mediterranean is the egg of Columbus, is it not! Felizmente, faz muito tempo que Colombo chegou ao Novo Mundo de forma ecologicamente aceitável. Fortunately, it is a long time since Columbus reached the new world in an ecologically acceptable way.

w:Christopher Columbus|Christopher Columbus , Italian explorer of the Americas
To explore; to go around exploring, to go around as an explorer
To appropriate; to lay claim to something, especially a discovery, which belongs to someone else

Dictionary