Lo prometido es deuda
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A promise is a promise.
Parece una perogrullada pero la primera promise = promesa y la segunda promise = compromiso (commitment)
Parece una perogrullada pero la primera promise = promesa y la segunda promise = compromiso (commitment)
A promise is a promise.
Creo que correcto es y se entendería, pero no tan común. Yo lo he oído de esta manera: promise is debt.
Pero a ver lo que dicen los nativos. Saludos.
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
As in the immortal verse of the great (British-born) Canadian poet, Robert Service:
[...]
There wasn't a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven,
With a corpse half hid that I couldn't get rid, because of a promise given;
...
" Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, ...
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw22.html
As in the immortal verse of the great (British-born) Canadian poet, Robert Service:
[...]
There wasn't a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven,
With a corpse half hid that I couldn't get rid, because of a promise given;
...
" Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, ...
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw22.html
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Si no te parece bien, puedes usar cualquiera de las otras dos (no la tuya).
"Lo prometido es deuda" tiene pinta de ser una frase hecha (no sé si en realidad lo es) pero "Promises are debts" no es frase hecha.
When you make a promise you have to keep it.
Remember the promise you made (like Cock Robin's song)
I like that.
With set phrases or idioms, rather than looking at word-for-word translations or even equivalents of the original meaning, I ask myself "what would a native say within this specific context?
Sometimes that approach evokes a phrase that scarcely resembles the original, but is spot on. As is yours.