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/Sounds like "eh" (as in "egg") + "CHAHR" (as in "chat") + "PAH" (as in "park") + "LAHN" (as in "lava") + "teh" (as in "ten")/

Meaning

To push forward, to keep going no matter what. A core Caribbean attitude in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba: when things get hard you do not stop, you just echar pa lante. It captures the resilience and refusal to quit that defines the culture.

Examples

No matter how hard it gets, you have to keep pushing forward.

He fell down twice but always pushed through, there is no stopping him.

Regional synonyms

A crazy, irrational person who acts in unpredictable ways in Chile and Argentina. When someone's rayado, they've lost all common sense and do things nobody can understand or explain logically.