Meaning of pide más que los pobres de la puerta de la iglesia

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pide más que los pobres de la puerta de la iglesia

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The formula "[verb] rather than [exaggerated situation]" is very common in proverbs. And in this case it must have been "asking more than the poor at the door of the church", which in this case would be the beggars or beggars who beg for alms at the entrance of the temples.

  

Cayetano Peláez del Rosal

Ask too much, throw yourself all the time with your hand asking

  

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