Chile
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Chile
All expressions
Good judgment, skill, or the right touch when handling a delicate situation. Someone with tino reads the room, chooses the right moment, and acts with exactly the right amount of care and precision.
To skip class, ditch school, or play hooky. In Peru, capar is the art of slipping away from school undetected — a rite of passage for generations of students who had better things to do than sit through another lecture.
Something extraordinary, incredible, or completely off the charts in the best possible way. In Chile, descueve is the ultimate superlative for cool — when something's el descueve, there's simply nothing better.
A dramatic and visible positive transformation — physical, emotional, or in lifestyle. A glow up means you changed for the better in a way everyone can see, and it often happens after a difficult period like a breakup or hard year.
To leave a place suddenly without warning, bail out of a situation, or abandon someone without any explanation. In Chile, patearte los tarros to someone is to ghost them or leave them stranded.