Uruguay
All expressions
Uruguay
All expressions
To leave quickly from a place in Argentina and Chile when the situation calls for it. When you gotta go right now without wasting time or giving long explanations, you just rajás.
To leave a place quickly in Uruguay when things got awkward or you're just bored. It's bouncing with style and zero explanations.
Argentine croissants that come in butter or lard versions, sweet and glazed. They're the quintessential Buenos Aires breakfast, inseparable from a morning café con leche.
The sidewalk where pedestrians walk next to the street. In Argentina, Uruguay, and the Southern Cone, nobody says "acera" — vereda has always been the go-to word for the path from your house to anywhere.
An unreliable person who talks big but never delivers, or someone who fakes being something they are not. In Argentina and Uruguay, calling someone "chanta" is one of the harshest insults because it attacks their credibility and seriousness as a person. A chanta politician promises everything and does nothing. A chanta friend says they will show up and never does. It is all about the gap between what someone says and what they actually do.