Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«La codicia rompe el saco.»
Word for word
Greed breaks the sack.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: Greed overreaches and loses everything.
Warns that being too greedy leads to losing what you already have. Common when someone pushes their luck too far.
Hear it in a sentence
La codicia rompe el saco, y por querer más terminó sin nada.
Greed overreaches and loses everything, and by wanting more he ended up with nothing.
Why learn dichos?
Proverbs like this one are everywhere in spoken Spanish — dropped mid-conversation, usually just the first half, with the rest left for you to complete. Recognizing them is one of the fastest ways to sound less like a textbook and follow real speech. Every Lingocito edition signs off with the dicho del día, so you meet one a day next to news written at your exact level.