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/Sounds like "chahn" (as in "chat") + "TAH" (as in "tar") + "dah" (as in "dart")/
A backstab or dirty trick done by someone you trusted, without any warning. In Argentina and Uruguay, a chantada stings especially hard because it comes from someone you never would have expected it from.
“He pulled a huge backstab on me, he took my client without saying a word.”
“I never expected that kind of move from someone I considered a friend.”
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/Sounds like "chahn" (as in "chat") + "TAH" (as in "tar") + "dah" (as in "dart")/
A backstab or dirty trick done by someone you trusted, without any warning. In Argentina and Uruguay, a chantada stings especially hard because it comes from someone you never would have expected it from.
“He pulled a huge backstab on me, he took my client without saying a word.”
“I never expected that kind of move from someone I considered a friend.”
Estar chiflis
To be a little crazy, off-kilter, or disconnected from reality. In Mexico, chiflis describes someone whose ideas or behavior are just a bit too strange to be fully grounded. Not dangerously unhinged, just reliably out of touch.