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In Colombian popular speech, to die or be on the verge of death. Also used hyperbolically for something that nearly finished you off.
“Keep driving like that and you are going to pelar bola.”
“I nearly pelé bola from the scare they gave me.”
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In Colombian popular speech, to die or be on the verge of death. Also used hyperbolically for something that nearly finished you off.
“Keep driving like that and you are going to pelar bola.”
“I nearly pelé bola from the scare they gave me.”
Voltear la torta
To flip the script, to completely turn a situation around when things looked lost. In Colombia, voltear la torta is that satisfying reversal: you were losing, they underestimated you, and then you came back and changed everything.