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/Sounds like "AH" (as in "art") + "FAHL" (as in "far") + "tah" (as in "tar") + "DEH" (as in "debt") + "PAHN" (as in "park") + "tohr" (as in "toll") + "TEE" (as in "tea") + "yahs" (as in "yard")/
When you don't have the ideal thing, you make do with what's available and make it work. Mexican ingenuity summed up in a phrase that celebrates the ability to figure things out with whatever you've got.
“No beer but there's tequila, when there's no bread, there's tortillas.”
“We don't have the budget but we'll make it work.”
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When you don't have the ideal thing, you make do with what's available and make it work. Mexican ingenuity summed up in a phrase that celebrates the ability to figure things out with whatever you've got.
“No beer but there's tequila, when there's no bread, there's tortillas.”
“We don't have the budget but we'll make it work.”
Canche
A blonde or fair-skinned person in Guatemala, the local equivalent of Mexico's 'güero.' Light hair and eyes are uncommon enough in Guatemala that they become a permanent nickname. The canche is always the canche, whether they like it or not.