no tenir on caure mort
Catalan
Etymology
Literally, "not have anywhere to fall dead".
Idiom
no tenir on caure mort
- (figuratively) to be destitute, indigent
- 1969, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Feliçment, jo soc una dona:
- ‒No té on caure mort aquest ‒em deia en veu alta. ‒I tant que tinc on caure mort, Juanita, tot el país està a la meva disposició.
- "This one doesn't have a place to go die," she said to me in a loud voice. "I do too have a place to go and die, Juanita, the whole country is at my disposal."
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Further reading
- “caure”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023