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A falta de pan, buenas son tortas.

For lack of bread, flatcakes will do.

When the ideal option is unavailable, a lesser substitute is still worth accepting.

Traditional Gibraltar Wisdom, Gibraltar

Source: Traditional Andalusian Spanish proverb (refran), shared cultural and linguistic heritage of Gibraltar's Llanito vernacular, public-domain oral tradition

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