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/Sounds like "ehs" (as in "egg") + "koh" (as in "coat") + "nyeh" + "TAHR" (as in "tar")/
To damage, break, or completely wreck something in Venezuela. When something gets "escoñetado" it's totally useless, destroyed, and not easily fixable.
“He dropped his phone and completely trashed it.”
“Don't touch that or you'll break it.”
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/Sounds like "ehs" (as in "egg") + "koh" (as in "coat") + "nyeh" + "TAHR" (as in "tar")/
To damage, break, or completely wreck something in Venezuela. When something gets "escoñetado" it's totally useless, destroyed, and not easily fixable.
“He dropped his phone and completely trashed it.”
“Don't touch that or you'll break it.”
Voltear la torta
To flip the script, to completely turn a situation around when things looked lost. In Colombia, voltear la torta is that satisfying reversal: you were losing, they underestimated you, and then you came back and changed everything.