Someone who chokes under pressure, especially in sports. Literally "cold chest," it describes a player or person who lacks passion and disappears in clutch moments. In Argentine and Uruguayan football culture, calling someone a pecho frío is one of the harshest criticisms, it means they have no heart when it counts. It can also be used outside sports for anyone who does not step up when the stakes are high.

The front cover that protects the car engine in Argentina, Chile, and Spain. What you lift when something's wrong and suspicious smoke comes out, hoping it's nothing serious or expensive to fix.

Pineapple in Argentina and Uruguay — the word comes from Guaraní and is the go-to term in the Río de la Plata region. Same fruit, different name from the rest of the Spanish-speaking world.