Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
a foot in both worlds
Portuguese translation:
um pé lá, outro cá.
English term
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a foot in both worlds
nursing for wealthy patients.
A foot in both worlds, that's Maria. That’s what got her in trouble at the campus clinic,
always recommending folk remedies to the students.
| 4 +1 | um pé lá, outro cá. |
Rebelo Júnior
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| 4 | parte curandeira e parte enfermeira |
Leonor Machado
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| 3 | meia curandeira, meia médica |
Nick Taylor
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| 1 +1 | um pé nos dois mundos |
claudiabi
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um pé lá, outro cá.
um pé nos dois mundos
We have in Italian this expression: "Tenere il piede in due scarpe" (To keep one foot in two shoes"), so I guess it could be the same in Portuguese, except that in your case it refers to two fields/sectors.
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meia curandeira, meia médica
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