Cagando leches

Astisendo Grupo Editorial Cagando Leches Spanish Comic. A new illustrated glossary of the most hilarious authentic Spanish expressions. After a first compilation, Con dos huevos (With Two Eggs), Cagando leches (Sh*ing Milk) explores another 45 surreal and disconcerting Spanish idioms like to have noses, to say goodbye in the French style, to dunk one´s churro, to come out of the closet.Spanish overflows with these popular expressions whose meaning has little or nothing to do with the words that form them, and that are imprinted on your mind like colorful postcards, vivid and raw.After a first compilation, Con dos huevos (Astiberri, 2014), which already has three editions, Héloïse Guerrier and David Sánchez explore a new set of surreal, disconcerting, and hilarious idioms that Quevedo would have undoubtedly used to mock Góngora.Graphically, each expression is illustrated literally.In this way, these colloquial expressions, formed by simple terms, often linked to the realm of food or sexuality, acquire an unexpected visual poetry.Decontextualized and taken literally, they become surreal, absurd, almost disturbing.In addition, the authors delve into the origin of language.Each idiom is carefully dissected, in an attempt to decipher its etymology, its how and its why: what was the initial use of such an expression, in what context it was used, or how it has evolved over time.A way to discover a language and its roots through its most colloquial expressions.The texts of Cagando leches are translated into English and French.The definition of each idiom is translated into both languages, since the foreign reader -expatriate, tourist, or student of the Cervantes language- often encounters these set expressions, these idioms or idiomatic turns that can leave them perplexed.And with the purpose of highlighting that feeling of strangeness in the discovery of a language, echoing the illustrations in a game of mirrors, each expression is also translated literally: to shit in the sea (cagarse en la mar), to not be a turkey´s bogey (no ser moco de pavo), balls at one´s tie (los cojones de corbata).In short, an illustrated glossary aimed at both native speakers who are curious about the most surreal expressions of their own language, and foreigners struggling with such prolific slang. tradeinn Techinn