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/Sounds like "MAH" (as in "mark") + "lah" (as in "lava") + "LEH" (as in "let") + "cheh" (as in "check")/
Bad luck, the universe working against you through no fault of your own. Used in Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile to describe that helpless feeling when everything goes wrong and there is nothing you could have done to prevent it. The milk in the phrase has nothing to do with dairy; it is pure colloquial expression for rotten fortune.
“Qué mala leche, justo llovió el día de mi cumpleaños.”
“What terrible luck, it rained on my birthday of all days.”
“Tuve mala leche toda la semana, todo me salió mal.”
“I had awful luck all week, everything went wrong.”
/Sounds like "MAH" (as in "mark") + "lah" (as in "lava") + "LEH" (as in "let") + "cheh" (as in "check")/
Bad intentions or bad luck, depending on the context. A person with mala leche is someone who does things with malice, while having mala leche means the universe is conspiring against you.
“He said that with bad intentions, don't trust him.”
“What rotten luck, everything went wrong today.”
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/Sounds like "MAH" (as in "mark") + "lah" (as in "lava") + "LEH" (as in "let") + "cheh" (as in "check")/
Bad luck, the universe working against you through no fault of your own. Used in Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile to describe that helpless feeling when everything goes wrong and there is nothing you could have done to prevent it. The milk in the phrase has nothing to do with dairy; it is pure colloquial expression for rotten fortune.
“Qué mala leche, justo llovió el día de mi cumpleaños.”
“What terrible luck, it rained on my birthday of all days.”
“Tuve mala leche toda la semana, todo me salió mal.”
“I had awful luck all week, everything went wrong.”
/Sounds like "MAH" (as in "mark") + "lah" (as in "lava") + "LEH" (as in "let") + "cheh" (as in "check")/
Bad intentions or bad luck, depending on the context. A person with mala leche is someone who does things with malice, while having mala leche means the universe is conspiring against you.
“He said that with bad intentions, don't trust him.”
“What rotten luck, everything went wrong today.”
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Tuntún
Randomly, without thinking it through, just going with whatever comes first. Doing something "al tuntún" means acting with no plan and trusting blind luck to sort it out. A risky approach, and people usually tell you not to do it this way.