vinagre

DON EDUARDO. ¡Toma, ya te desanimas! DOÑA MATILDE. No, pero sí extraño cómo has tenido paciencia para oír tanta grosería. DON EDUARDO. En efecto, merecía el gran vinagre que le hubiera tirado los tres duros a la cabeza. DOÑA MATILDE. Y ¿por qué no lo has hecho? DON EDUARDO. En primer lugar porque no tenía los tres duros. DOÑA MATILDE. Podías haberle castigado de otro modo.

Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza - Contigo Pan y Cebolla

I am not in need, besides I have no great way to go to where I can get a fresh supply. Drink, senor, drink it all." In ten seconds after the calabash is empty. "Now eat the tortillas. 'Tis but poor fare, but the chili vinagre will be sure to strengthen you. We who dwell in the desert know that."

Mayne Reid - The Lone Ranche

After this state of things had endured six months, they accepted a new President sent from Rio Janeiro, who, however, again irritated them by imprisoning their favourite leader, Vinagre. The revenge which followed was frightful.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

But having pre-excited attention, we had full leisure to sharpen our eye. To these imprudent authors and actors we may apply a Spanish proverb, which has the peculiar quaintness of that people, Aviendo pregonado vino, venden vinagre: "Having cried up their wine, they sell us vinegar." A ridiculous humility in a preface is not less despicable.

Isaac Disraeli - Literary Character of Men of Genius: Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions