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(05-20-2018 12:39 AM)toml_12953 Wrote:  

(05-19-2018 01:37 PM)jebem Wrote:  "A little big" is a direct translation from a very common Portuguese expression that we, the Camões's language speakers, use when we want to say that a object is bigger than the average for that object class:
In Portuguese: "Um pouco grande"

I don't know the correct native English speakers equivalent idiomatic expression for that, though.

There was nothing wrong with it at all. It's a perfectly good phrase in English, too. It tickled my funny bone, though. Like a package in the store labeled Jumbo Shrimp. In English, calling someone a shrimp means they're small so Jumbo Shrimp seems like an oxymoron.

Wow, I'm happy I didn't make a mistake!

Always when we speak a foreign language, with different cultures, we have to be careful with what we say, so to not offend anyone with our ignorance.