In this article the concept of the much discussed 'untranslatability' of certain cultural and/or linguistic elements is questioned. After studying a restricted literary corpus of what traditional translation theorists would term 'untranslatable items', such as puns, metaphors, cultural references, etc., the results are quite straight: the existence of untranslatability lacks real grounding, and Toury seems to be right when he advances that omissions account for a considerable share of adequate translation solutions.