Cultural Aspects
The term "xeremia" has a role in the popular speech of Majorca. Several phrases and proverbs refer to the instrument:
- Content com unes xeremies - Happy as a bagpipe
- Plorar com unes xeremies - To cry like a bagpipe
- Dits, dits, que vent no en falta - Fingers, fingers, may you not lack for wind
- Riure-se'n des Sant i ses xeremies - To laugh at the saint and the bagpipe
- Més inflat que unes xeremies - More swollen than a bagpipe
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