Mexico
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Mexico
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Something really good at a ridiculously low price — that deal of the century that finds you when you least expect it. When something's a ganga, you feel like a shopping genius and can't stop bragging about it.
An acrobatic football move where a player kicks the ball with their back to the goal, legs above their head in mid-air. It's pure athletic spectacle, and when it goes in, it's a work of art.
A hard candy on a stick in various flavors and colors in Mexico, Spain, and Colombia. What Argentina calls chupetín and Chile calls chupete — every country has a different name for the same happiness.
An embarrassing moment, a public blunder so cringe that you want to disappear from the face of the earth. In Mexico and Colombia, "hacer un oso" means to embarrass yourself in front of everyone, the kind of moment that haunts you for days and your friends never let you forget.
An easy, lenient teacher who never fails anyone in Mexico. The barco is every student's dream professor: no hard exams, extra credit for everything, and passing their class is basically automatic.