"If we leave aside our tortillas" Whit this Anaya wants to refer to the language, the story, the cultural values, the social values, our way of seeing things and the themes of our literature, the culture that we are representing so much will inevitably die.
There's a few metaphors two examples are I thank you feom my heart and a good man's prayers are golden recompense
<span>"Sneaking around" would be a better synonym as it means to pry into others affairs or in a fashion not overt but with an eye to gathering information which can be used against the person being searched later on.</span>