>>>Spanish villages? I know where czech villages (Böhmische Dörfer) comes from, but spanish I have no idea. :)
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>>We also say spanish villages. And you are correct, the "I have no idea" is the actual meaning of the expression :)
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>>BTW, there was a fad here, a couple of years ago, to build sentences like "in Spain, the spanish villages are called just villages".
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>and I would have guessed at something like pueblo or aldea...
Ok, the right english idiom is "It's all Greek to me."
Hmm, Greek and EU...
MartinaJ