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Fiar
/Sounds like "FYAHR"/
To sell something on informal credit without immediate payment, trusting the customer's word that they will pay later. It is the trust-based economy that keeps neighborhood shops alive across Latin America, where the owner jots it down in a little notebook and knows you will be back.
“The lady at the corner store lets me buy on credit when I do not have cash on me.”
“No credit here, either you pay or you leave it.”
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Fiar
/Sounds like "FYAHR"/
To sell something on informal credit without immediate payment, trusting the customer's word that they will pay later. It is the trust-based economy that keeps neighborhood shops alive across Latin America, where the owner jots it down in a little notebook and knows you will be back.
“The lady at the corner store lets me buy on credit when I do not have cash on me.”
“No credit here, either you pay or you leave it.”
El malo de la película
The person everyone blames when something goes wrong, the narrative scapegoat of any group conflict. Across Latin America and Spain, ser el malo de la pelicula means being cast as the villain of the story, sometimes just for telling the truth nobody wanted to hear.