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Pudo ser que, algún día del siglo XVIII, en uno de tantos viajes a través del mar, el viento cesó y el barco se detuvo. El calor y la quietud desesperante, hicieron exclamar a un marinero de origen francés algo así como «¡esto es una calma chiche!».
En francés, chiche significa «avaro», de modo que la expresión podría traducirse como «¡esto es una calma avara!», por no ceder ni un ápice de viento. La expresión debió gustar a los marineros españoles; hacía tiempo que la palabra «calma» había perdido su dureza y necesitaban una nueva forma de echar en cara a la naturaleza su «avaricia».
(Arturo Ortega Morán)
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It could be that one day in the XVIII century, in one of many voyages across the sea, the wind ceased and the boat stopped. The desparate heat and stillness made a french sailor cry something like "this is a chiche calm!".
In French, chiche means "stingy", so that the phrase could be translated as "this is a greedy calm!" , because it would not cede any wind.
The Spanish sailors must liked the expression, because for a long time the word "calm" had lost its hardness and they needed a new way of reproaching nature his "greed."
(Arturo Ortega Morán)
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Taken in: Schweiz / Canton de Vaud / Lausanne / Port de Pully (show map)

Taken on: October 24, 2012

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