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/Sounds like "ehs" (as in "egg") + "TAHR" (as in "tar") + "AHL" (as in "art") + "LOH" (as in "loan") + "roh" (as in "row")/

Meaning

In Spain, to be alert, on the ball, and fully aware of everything going on around you. Like the parrot that picks up every word it hears, the person who "está al loro" is always the first to know and the last to miss anything.

Examples

Stay sharp; they're changing the schedule today without warning.

She's always the first to catch every piece of office gossip.

Word family

An exclamation used to shoo cats away from wherever they've decided to plant themselves. In Ecuador and Peru, zape is the sound you throw at the cat to get it off your stuff, it rarely works.