What does como si hubiera descubierto América mean?
Expression
as if she'd invented the wheel
Said of somebody making a great deal of something that is neither so difficult nor so much theirs. The irony rests on everybody knowing that discovering America was enormous: the comparison is deliberately absurd. In Spain it is one of the most used lines for deflating a show-off.
Se compró una bici y va como si hubiera descubierto América.
