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Fula
/Sounds like "FOO" (as in "food") + "lah" (as in "lava")/
The US dollar in Cuban slang, the hard currency that unlocked access to things the Cuban peso couldn't buy. Fula comes from the English 'full' and became the everyday street word for dollars in Cuba's dual-currency economy.
“¿Tienes fula? En esa tienda solo aceptan dólares.”
“Do you have dollars? At that store they only accept hard currency.”
“He got some dollars from abroad and made it through the month.”
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Fula
/Sounds like "FOO" (as in "food") + "lah" (as in "lava")/
The US dollar in Cuban slang, the hard currency that unlocked access to things the Cuban peso couldn't buy. Fula comes from the English 'full' and became the everyday street word for dollars in Cuba's dual-currency economy.
“¿Tienes fula? En esa tienda solo aceptan dólares.”
“Do you have dollars? At that store they only accept hard currency.”
“He got some dollars from abroad and made it through the month.”
Paja
Empty talk, lies, or hollow nonsense with no substance behind it. In Central America, when something is "pura paja" it is all hot air. The person who "habla paja" talks a lot and means nothing, or exaggerates wildly to seem more important than they are.