Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«Paciencia y barajar.»
Word for word
Patience and shuffle.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: Patience and shuffle the cards.
Said when things are going slowly or badly, meaning to be patient and keep going. It comes from card games and is used to encourage endurance.
Hear it in a sentence
Perdimos otra vez, pero paciencia y barajar.
We lost again, but patience and shuffle.
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.