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How to Haggle and Shop in Mexican Markets: Essential Spanish Phrases
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Meaning
Loose change, coins, or small cash in Mexico. It's the slang way to refer to those coins you scrape together from the bottom of your pockets when you need exact change.
Examples
“Got any feria for the bus?”
“I don't have feria, spot me some for a soda.”
“He scraped together some feria and bought himself tacos.”
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/Sounds like "FEH" (as in "fence") + "ryah"/
Meaning
Loose change, coins, or small cash in Mexico. It's the slang way to refer to those coins you scrape together from the bottom of your pockets when you need exact change.
Examples
“Got any feria for the bus?”
“I don't have feria, spot me some for a soda.”
“He scraped together some feria and bought himself tacos.”
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Ser un pelmazo
In Spain, an insufferably tiresome and persistent person who never reads the room. A pelmazo latches on, goes on and on about the same topic, and genuinely cannot tell that everyone around them checked out long ago. The word comes from "pelma," a dense sticky mass, which is exactly how it feels to be around one.