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Sunday, May 11, 2014

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ceja, noun
eyebrow

La ceja is the word for eyebrow. Some people have very thick eyebrows, and the adjective in this particular case is poblado:

una mujer de cejas pobladas
a woman with thick or bushy eyebrows

Cejas come in to a couple of Spanish idioms. If you get an idea in your head about something, or a bee in your bonnet, you can use the reflexive phrase meterse una idea entre ceja y ceja a. Note how the structure looks in context.

Cuando al presidente se le mete una idea entre ceja y ceja, es capaz de cualquier cosa.
When the President gets a bee in his bonnet, he’s capable of absolutely anything.

This idiom uses a similar part of the body to English:

Está endeudado hasta las cejas.
He’s up to his eyes in debt.

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