Spanish

grano

desgranar los días

/desɡɾaˈnaɾ los ˈdi.as/

Literal To strip [something] of its grains; to thresh.

Spanish doesn't say time passes — it gets stripped away grain by grain, the way a thumb runs down a stalk of wheat. A literary phrase that turns abstraction into something you can hold in your hand and watch fall apart, kernel by kernel.

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