Spanish Humour

[simonb]

I have a Spanish colleague who came out with the following:

"Si hay que ir se va, pero ..... ir por ir."

I thinks it's hillarious but no matter how many times he explained it made no sense to me.

Do you have any idea what this is about? :confused:

Simon

[simonb]

Sorry. Should say, "He thinks it's hilarious...."

[Ben]

Has to be said that neither Marina or I can find the humour (or sense) anywhere in that!! :) You better ask him what he means!

[simonb]

Bugger. I'll ask him again and if I get a response I understand I'll post it.

[cubix]

Might be an idiom, sometimes they are country specfic, I looked in my idiom dictionary and it wasn't in there

Greg

[angeliufus]

It means simply that he is lazy. I have heard it before...
It would translate to something like this:

If you really have to go... you go...
but just going for no reason...

Sometimes Spanish people we need a good excuse to move!:rolleyes:

[simonb]

Thanks for the explanation. I'll check with him this week.