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In Uruguay, an old, beat-up car that looks like it could give up at any moment but somehow keeps going. The cachila is usually owned with irrational affection despite its terrible condition: it rattles, leaks, and complains, but is still beloved.
“¿Vamos en esa cachila? Espero que llegue.”
“Are we going in that old junker? I really hope it makes it.”
“My dad's car is thirty years old and still running somehow.”
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/Sounds like "kah" (as in "car") + "CHEE" (as in "cheek") + "lah" (as in "lava")/
In Uruguay, an old, beat-up car that looks like it could give up at any moment but somehow keeps going. The cachila is usually owned with irrational affection despite its terrible condition: it rattles, leaks, and complains, but is still beloved.
“¿Vamos en esa cachila? Espero que llegue.”
“Are we going in that old junker? I really hope it makes it.”
“My dad's car is thirty years old and still running somehow.”
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To move on from something in the past and keep going without holding a grudge. The emotional equivalent of closing a chapter: you acknowledge what happened and then deliberately leave it behind. Common across Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile.