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/Sounds like "ah" (as in "art") + "gwahn" (as in "Guam") + "TAHR" (as in "tar") + "BEH" (as in "bed") + "lah" (as in "lava")/

Meaning

To be the unwanted third wheel while a couple does their thing, without a date of your own in Venezuela. "Aguantar vela" is that uncomfortable role of just being there while two people are clearly into each other.

Examples

The three of us went out but I was just the third wheel all night.

Don't invite me to that, I'm not being the third wheel again.

Regional synonyms

Very badly, chaotically, and without any care whatsoever. In Argentina, when something goes "a las patadas" it went terribly and there is no polishing the result. Also used for doing something hastily and sloppily, rushing through it at the last possible moment.