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Provençal proverb

Vous lacho lei resoun coume leis ai lei pet.

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Maritime Provençal

Vous lacho lei resoun coume leis ai lei pet.

Meaning

He flings his reasons at you as donkeys let fly their wind.

Note : A translation that can only be rendered through a Provençal idiom.

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Source : La Tour-Keyrié, Recueil de proverbes provençaux (1882), Gallica — public domain. Maritime Mistralian normalisation by Lingua Nostra.

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