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(05-19-2018 01:37 PM)jebem Wrote:  
(05-19-2018 09:13 AM)toml_12953 Wrote:  For some reason, this struck me as very funny!

"A little big" is a direct translation from a very common Portuguese expression that we, the Camões's language speakers, use when we want to say that a object is bigger than the average for that object class:
In Portuguese: "Um pouco grande"

I don't know the correct native English speakers equivalent idiomatic expression for that, though.

There was nothing wrong with it at all. It's a perfectly good phrase in English, too. It tickled my funny bone, though. Like a package in the store labeled Jumbo Shrimp. In English, calling someone a shrimp means they're small so Jumbo Shrimp seems like an oxymoron.

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