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/Sounds like "DAHR" (as in "dart") + "leh" (as in "let") + "GAHS" (as in "garden")/

Meaning

To speed up, hurry, or put more intensity into something. Comes literally from pressing the gas pedal and applies to any situation: work, a party, studying, whatever needs more speed or energy right now.

Examples

Step on it, man, we are already running late and they are not going to wait for us.

We put the pedal to the metal on studying this week and finished the entire course.

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Regional synonyms
Bandera de Argentina
Bandera de Chile
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Without a care in the world, completely unbothered, treating something with total indifference in Chile. To leave something 'al lote' means to ignore it entirely as if it didn't exist, with a level of carelessness that's almost impressive. It's the Chilean way of saying someone just doesn't give a damn.