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/Sounds like "eh" (as in "egg") + "CHAHR" (as in "chat") + "PEHS" (as in "pet") + "tehs" (as in "ten")/
To trash-talk someone intensely and with real bitterness, leaving nothing good about them standing. When you "echar pestes," you are not venting, you are demolishing.
“She arrived at the meeting tearing her boss apart.”
“The whole neighborhood was trash-talking him after what he did.”
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To trash-talk someone intensely and with real bitterness, leaving nothing good about them standing. When you "echar pestes," you are not venting, you are demolishing.
“She arrived at the meeting tearing her boss apart.”
“The whole neighborhood was trash-talking him after what he did.”
Pasar piola
To fly under the radar, stay quiet, and avoid drawing attention so you don't get in trouble. In Argentina, passing piola is a conscious social strategy, the art of being present but invisible when you need to be.