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/Sounds like "peh" (as in "pet") + "LAHR" (as in "lava")/
To talk trash about someone behind their back, criticize them harshly when they're not around. In Mexico, 'pelar' someone is the classic behind-the-back gossip that everyone does but nobody admits to.
“Don't waste your energy talking about him, he's not worth it.”
“They're always talking smack about me at the office.”
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/Sounds like "peh" (as in "pet") + "LAHR" (as in "lava")/
To talk trash about someone behind their back, criticize them harshly when they're not around. In Mexico, 'pelar' someone is the classic behind-the-back gossip that everyone does but nobody admits to.
“Don't waste your energy talking about him, he's not worth it.”
“They're always talking smack about me at the office.”
Enchufado
Someone with government connections or political pull who gets jobs, contracts, or privileges through those ties rather than merit. In Venezuela, the enchufado system became so embedded in daily life that the term gained global recognition: it is not just nepotism, it is a whole economic way of surviving.