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/Sounds like "KWAHR" (as in "quack") + "soh" (as in "solo")/

Meaning

In Chile, an emotionally cold person who shows no visible reaction to anything. The word borrows the image of a crystal: clear, hard, and ice cold. Nothing moves them, not bad news, not drama, not anything.

Examples

He is completely ice cold, absolutely nothing moves him.

Anyone else would have cried at that news, but she did not even blink.

Regional synonyms

To finally understand something you had not grasped before, that lightbulb moment when the pieces finally click in your head. The phrase comes from old vending machines in Mexico where you had to drop a 20 centavo coin and wait for it to fall and register. So when "el veinte cae," it means the realization has finally landed.