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/Sounds like "kah" (as in "car") + "EHR" (as in "egg") + "leh" (as in "let") + "EHL" (as in "egg") + "BAYN" (as in "bay") + "teh" (as in "ten")/
In Argentina, to finally understand something, usually too late. The metaphor comes from the old coin (veinte centavos) dropping into the slot of a public phone to activate the call. When the twenty drops for you, you have caught on, but the situation has probably already played out.
“It finally clicked for him right after the contract was already signed.”
“Did it finally hit you that they were using you the whole time?”
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In Argentina, to finally understand something, usually too late. The metaphor comes from the old coin (veinte centavos) dropping into the slot of a public phone to activate the call. When the twenty drops for you, you have caught on, but the situation has probably already played out.
“It finally clicked for him right after the contract was already signed.”
“Did it finally hit you that they were using you the whole time?”
Bocazas
A blabbermouth, someone who can't keep a secret to save their life or who talks way too much without thinking. In Spain, bocazas is that friend you never tell anything important because by morning the whole neighborhood knows. Harmless but absolutely unreliable with information.