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/Sounds like the English word "bret" + "eh" (as in "egg") + "AHR" (as in "art")/
To work hard, to earn your living in Costa Rica. It's the Tico way of saying you're grinding, and when a Tico says they're breteando, don't bother them, they're in full productivity mode.
“I'm breteando like crazy this week.”
“If I don't bretear, I don't eat.”
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/Sounds like the English word "bret" + "eh" (as in "egg") + "AHR" (as in "art")/
To work hard, to earn your living in Costa Rica. It's the Tico way of saying you're grinding, and when a Tico says they're breteando, don't bother them, they're in full productivity mode.
“I'm breteando like crazy this week.”
“If I don't bretear, I don't eat.”
Zafar
To escape or wriggle out of a tricky situation, responsibility, or problem. In Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile, when you zafas you come out the other side unscathed from something that looked bad going in. It can be luck, quick thinking, or a stroke of timing that gets you through.