beleza não se põe na mesa beauty is only skin deep

Creator:	Marcelo Gonçalves
Language pair:	Portuguese to English
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Definition / notes:	Proverb. First found in a work by Sir Thomas Overbury's, 1613: "All the carnall beauty of my wife, Is but skin deep." What his wife thought isn't recorded. There is a fanciful work attributed to Overbury called A true and historical relation of the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1651. Perhaps she had him worried? http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/59200.html
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