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/Sounds like "PAH" (as in "park") + "pah" (as in "park") + "FREE" (as in "free") + "tah" (as in "tar")/
A mild Argentine insult for someone naive, dumb, or easily fooled. Literally "french fry," it sounds more like friendly ribbing than a real put-down. You use it when a friend does something obviously dumb or falls for the most obvious trick.
“You're such a papa frita, how could you believe that?”
“Don't be a dummy, check it carefully before you sign anything.”
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A mild Argentine insult for someone naive, dumb, or easily fooled. Literally "french fry," it sounds more like friendly ribbing than a real put-down. You use it when a friend does something obviously dumb or falls for the most obvious trick.
“You're such a papa frita, how could you believe that?”
“Don't be a dummy, check it carefully before you sign anything.”
Le cayó el veinte
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.