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Latin Sayings, Updated for 2022

With many apologies to Cato et al.

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Mar 13
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When the subway closes due to its workers getting COVID, so you have to reschedule your date:

Sick transit, Gloria. Monday?

When advising your Russian friend about where to get the freshest lobsters:

Eat in Acadia, Igor.

When asking your German friend if she would like a potato:

Eat tuber, Ute?

When seasoning the holy water:

Add marjoram, Dei Gloriam.

When seeing the fried eels on the menu at a Japanese restaurant:

Oh tempura! Oh morays!

When the landlord comes to shut down your cockroach farm but you fight him off with a coat hanger:

Coat-hanger, defend a pest!

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