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/Sounds like "DAHR" (as in "dart") + "seh" (as in "set") + "mah" (as in "mark") + "NEE" (as in "knee") + "hah" (as in "hard")/

Meaning

To obsess and spiral over something, cranking it up in your head until a small thing becomes an enormous problem. In Argentina and Uruguay, darse manija is that late-night overthinking loop where your brain refuses to stop replaying the same moment over and over.

Examples

I spent the whole night overthinking whether I came across badly at dinner.

Don't spiral over that, it already happened and there's nothing you can do.

To get something, to understand or catch what is being explained or happening. The casual colloquial equivalent of "to get it" in Spain and Chile, used when something finally clicks or when checking if the other person followed along.