English-Spanish translations for sprat

  • espadínEn el Reino Unido decimos que «hace falta un espadín para pescar una caballa». In the UK we say 'it takes a sprat to catch a mackerel'. Quizás deberíamos decir «hace falta un espadín para pescar un arenque». Perhaps we should be saying 'it takes a sprat to catch a herring'! Puede asimismo leerse entre líneas que hay algunos inspectores de pesca que ni siquiera conocen la diferencia entre un arenque y un espadín. Simply reading between the lines, I gather there are some fisheries inspectors who do not even know the difference between a herring and a sprat.

Definition of sprat

  • Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus , in the family Clupeidae

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