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/Sounds like "KOHM" (as in "coat") + "boh" (as in "boat")/
A punch, a straight closed-fist blow, in Colombia and Chile. Blunt and unambiguous: a combo ends conversations and gets remembered for days. Pure street-level vocabulary with no room for interpretation.
“He landed a combo right in his face and the argument was over.”
“Keep it up and you are going to catch a punch, fair warning.”
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/Sounds like "KOHM" (as in "coat") + "boh" (as in "boat")/
A punch, a straight closed-fist blow, in Colombia and Chile. Blunt and unambiguous: a combo ends conversations and gets remembered for days. Pure street-level vocabulary with no room for interpretation.
“He landed a combo right in his face and the argument was over.”
“Keep it up and you are going to catch a punch, fair warning.”
Novela
A dramatic situation that has spiraled into full soap opera territory, with impossible conflicts and unexpected plot twists. Used in Mexico and Central America. When someone says "esto ya se volvió novela," the situation has gone from a normal life problem to something with betrayals, secret revelations, and scenes that belong on primetime TV.