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/Sounds like "POON" (as in "pool") + "gah" (as in "garden")/
A street pickpocket who steals wallets, phones, and purses with speed and skill. In Argentina and Uruguay, a punga operates on the subway, buses, and crowded places so smoothly that you don't realize anything happened until you reach into your pocket and find it empty.
“A pickpocket stole my phone on the subway and I didn't even feel it.”
“Watch out for pickpockets at the concert, don't carry anything in your back pockets.”
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/Sounds like "POON" (as in "pool") + "gah" (as in "garden")/
A street pickpocket who steals wallets, phones, and purses with speed and skill. In Argentina and Uruguay, a punga operates on the subway, buses, and crowded places so smoothly that you don't realize anything happened until you reach into your pocket and find it empty.
“A pickpocket stole my phone on the subway and I didn't even feel it.”
“Watch out for pickpockets at the concert, don't carry anything in your back pockets.”
Irse por las ramas
To go off on tangents and talk around a topic without ever getting to the point. The person who "goes off through the branches" is the expert at saying a lot while saying absolutely nothing, especially when they want to avoid answering directly. Common in Spain.