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/Sounds like "FYAH" + "doh" (as in "door")/

Meaning

To buy on credit, getting something now and promising to pay later. In Mexico and Latin America, 'fiado' is the informal credit system built on trust, the corner store owner who knows you can wait for your money at the end of the month. No paperwork, just a promise.

Examples

They give me credit at the corner store, I've been going there for years.

Buy me a taco on credit, I'll pay you back tomorrow for sure.

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Regional synonyms

A scatterbrained or impulsive person who acts without thinking and consistently makes a mess of things through pure recklessness. In Colombia and Venezuela, the atolondrado is always rushing but somehow always the last to arrive, with everything upside down and no idea what went wrong.