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A pobreza é um catálogo pesado.

English translation: Poverty is a heavy burden.

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Portuguese term or phrase:A pobreza é um catálogo pesado.
English translation:Poverty is a heavy burden.
Entered by: Christopher Fitzsimons

19:43 Nov 5, 2009
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Portuguese term or phrase: A pobreza é um catálogo pesado.
Obrigado :)
Christopher Fitzsimons
Switzerland
Local time: 06:35
Poverty is a heavy burden.
Explanation:
Sugestão.
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delveneto
United States
Local time: 00:35
Grading comment
Obrigado.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4Poverty is a heavy burden.
delveneto
4 +2Poverty is a hard row to hoe
Amy Duncan (X)
4 +1Poverty is a heavy tome
coolbrowne
4poverty brings a litany of ills
Muriel Vasconcellos


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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Poverty is a heavy burden.


Explanation:
Sugestão.

delveneto
United States
Local time: 00:35
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Obrigado.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ana Falasca Bernardes
6 mins
  -> Obrigado, Ana.
agree  Verginia Ophof
13 mins
  -> Obrigado, Verginia.
agree  Christine Morgan
23 mins
  -> Obrigado, Christine.
agree  Evans (X)
13 hrs
  -> Thank you, Gilla.
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Poverty is a hard row to hoe


Explanation:
http://tinyurl.com/ye82hcu

A popular idiom.

Poverty is a hard row to hoe...difficult to handle, hard to deal with, a burden.

Amy Duncan (X)
Brazil
Local time: 01:35
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 44

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marlene Curtis: Perfect!
53 mins
  -> Thanks, Marlene!
agree  R. Alex Jenkins: Perhaps overly idiomatic for a casual reader to understand, but an excellent suggestion nonetheless. On a friendly note :) Are you American? I'm from the UK and I guess I have my own 'set' ideas and expressions. wtf is 'layette', lol.
4 hrs
  -> Yes, I'm American, and I guess I'd been so used to hearing "layette" that I couldn't understand all the fuss. :o)
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Poverty is a heavy tome


Explanation:
Yes it means "a heavy burden" but one did choose a book image where one could have use something mire obvious such as "carga", "ônus" etc.

coolbrowne
United States
Local time: 00:35
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adriana Maciel
3 hrs
  -> Obrigado.
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
poverty brings a litany of ills


Explanation:
I think the idea is that proverty brings on many problems, has a rippling effect.

54,000 refs for "a litany of ills" - examples with 'poverty':

The analysis in this book illustrates a unique set of issues in rural America, outlining a litany of ills related to high incidences of rural poverty, ...
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Gallagher ran down a litany of ills that are statistically more likely to befall .... help people out of poverty, or does poverty keep people from marrying? ...
www.rcreader.com/index2.php?option=com..

The poverty and hopelessness of much of the Third World is attributed, ... Professor Ahmed itemizes a litany of ills that many others have also identified: ...
www.mepc.org/journal_vol15/1SullivanBR.asp

Topics to be discussed in this course include poverty, drug abuse, ... Today First Nations in Canada suffer a litany of ills from the highest rates of ...
www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/facultygovernance/...1.../199s....

... after reciting a litany of ills that plague the African-American ...
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 21:35
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 66
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