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To run an errand or do a specific chore or purchase in Mexico. When your mom sends you on a mandado, you better go fast without complaining or she'll send you for even more stuff.
“I'm gonna run a quick mandado, be right back.”
“My mom sent me on a mandado for tortillas.”
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To run an errand or do a specific chore or purchase in Mexico. When your mom sends you on a mandado, you better go fast without complaining or she'll send you for even more stuff.
“I'm gonna run a quick mandado, be right back.”
“My mom sent me on a mandado for tortillas.”
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To string someone along with empty promises, half-truths, or vague reassurances that keep them pacified without ever resolving the actual problem. A classic Mexican bureaucratic tactic: you leave every conversation feeling like something was said, but nothing was actually done.