Venezuela
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Venezuela
All expressions
To scam or deceive someone online using fake offers, phishing, or fraudulent schemes. When you get scammed, you fell into someone's digital trap who took advantage of your trust or naivety online.
To stay quiet and not react to something unfair out of fear, conformity, or cowardice. In Colombia and Venezuela, 'achantarse' is letting yourself get walked all over without protesting.
A gullible, naive fool who gets manipulated without even realizing it. In Venezuela, being 'gabán' means everyone sees you as an easy mark.
Skinny, scrawny, with no muscle or body mass. In Venezuela and Puerto Rico, bacalao describes someone so thin they look like they don't eat — all bones and skin with nothing on top.
The brutal physical misery after a night of overdoing it with alcohol: headache, nausea, and regret. It's universal across the Spanish-speaking world and always comes with the promise to never drink again.