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/Sounds like "LEH" (as in "let") + "kah" (as in "car") + "YOH" (as in "yoke") + "EHL" (as in "egg") + "BAYN" (as in "bay") + "teh" (as in "ten")/
The penny finally dropped: someone finally understood something that had been going over their head. The image comes from old Mexican pay phones where you dropped a 20-cent coin ("el veinte") to make the connection. Used both sincerely when someone genuinely figures something out, and sarcastically when they took way too long.
“He finally realized his girlfriend was cheating when he saw the messages.”
“It finally clicked for her! She took a while to put it all together.”
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/Sounds like "LEH" (as in "let") + "kah" (as in "car") + "YOH" (as in "yoke") + "EHL" (as in "egg") + "BAYN" (as in "bay") + "teh" (as in "ten")/
The penny finally dropped: someone finally understood something that had been going over their head. The image comes from old Mexican pay phones where you dropped a 20-cent coin ("el veinte") to make the connection. Used both sincerely when someone genuinely figures something out, and sarcastically when they took way too long.
“He finally realized his girlfriend was cheating when he saw the messages.”
“It finally clicked for her! She took a while to put it all together.”
Cajetilla
A snobby upper-class person with an air of superiority and contempt for those they consider beneath them. In Argentina, cajetilla is a pointed insult aimed at the privileged who flaunt their status and look down on regular people.