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If an English-speaker hears the expression “ de higos a brevas” he/she may think we are talking about something else when we are actually talking about how often we do something. This Spanish expression, in English 'from figs to plum jobs', comes from the real time that a fig tree spends on giving figs. The first fruit of the year that this tree gives is the plumb job that appears in more or less a year but the second or last fruit that the fig tree gives is the fig that is a more ripe one. So since the fig tree gives a plomb job to the time that it gives figs it spends a year. The expression, which refers to do something from year to year, does not restricts its meaning to just a year but it means that you do something one day and you spends many time to do the same thing.