Colombia
All expressions
Colombia
All expressions
To stock up or hoard something in excess, usually as a precaution or to take advantage of a deal. It's the modern survival instinct of filling your pantry before disaster strikes.
Someone who's always cracking jokes and making everyone laugh with their antics. Can also be a serious insult when someone doesn't take things seriously and their attitude annoys everyone.
To hustle on the streets doing shady or illegal things, living on the wrong side of the law. In Venezuela and Colombia, malandrear is associated with barrio culture where survival often means getting resourceful by any means necessary. It comes from "malandro," meaning a thug or street hustler. Someone who malandrea might be involved in petty crime, scams, or just general troublemaking.
To make someone frustrated enough that they start playing worse on purpose, provoking them until they lose focus. Can also happen naturally when everything goes wrong.
A way of saying 'facts' or 'that's straight facts' when someone says something undeniably true. It's the emphatic stamp of approval that validates a statement as pure truth.