To bother, pester, ruin something, or mess things up. Fregar spans the spectrum from mild annoyance to serious damage — it can describe a nagging coworker or a crashed computer with the exact same word.

A stupid mistake, dumb move, or blunder that anyone could have avoided. In Mexico, a 'tarugada' is what happens when you didn't think before acting — sending a message to the wrong person, breaking the thing you were trying to fix, saying exactly the wrong thing.

To end up with nothing by trying to grasp two things at once. It's said when someone loses everything due to being ambitious or indecisive.

Pure show, all appearance without real substance. In Mexico, 'pure screen' refers to when someone boasts about what they don't have or pretends to be something they are not.