Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«No hay dos sin tres.»
Word for word
There is no two without three.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: Things come in threes.
Once something has happened twice, expect a third time — good news or bad.
Hear it in a sentence
Ya ganó dos premios este año; no hay dos sin tres.
She has already won two awards this year — things come in threes.
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.