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Create account/Sounds like "sah" (as in "salsa") + "KAHR" (as in "car") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "KREHS" (as in "crest") + "tah" (as in "tar")/
In Chile, to bust your ass, grind until you have nothing left in the tank. Sacarse la cresta means you pushed yourself to the absolute limit, physically or mentally, and came out wrecked on the other side.
“I studied my ass off all week and still failed.”
“We busted our asses on that project and didn't even get a thank you.”
/Sounds like "sah" (as in "salsa") + "KAHR" (as in "car") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "KREHS" (as in "crest") + "tah" (as in "tar")/
To beat someone up badly, or to bust your own ass working extremely hard. In Chile, sacar la cresta covers both violence and extreme effort. The crest (a rooster's comb) is what gets knocked off when someone truly gets destroyed.
“If he keeps provoking people, he's going to get beaten up.”
“They caught him at night and beat him up without mercy.”
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/Sounds like "sah" (as in "salsa") + "KAHR" (as in "car") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "KREHS" (as in "crest") + "tah" (as in "tar")/
In Chile, to bust your ass, grind until you have nothing left in the tank. Sacarse la cresta means you pushed yourself to the absolute limit, physically or mentally, and came out wrecked on the other side.
“I studied my ass off all week and still failed.”
“We busted our asses on that project and didn't even get a thank you.”
/Sounds like "sah" (as in "salsa") + "KAHR" (as in "car") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "KREHS" (as in "crest") + "tah" (as in "tar")/
To beat someone up badly, or to bust your own ass working extremely hard. In Chile, sacar la cresta covers both violence and extreme effort. The crest (a rooster's comb) is what gets knocked off when someone truly gets destroyed.
“If he keeps provoking people, he's going to get beaten up.”
“They caught him at night and beat him up without mercy.”
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Qué paja
An expression of laziness or unwillingness to do something, that anticipated dread that hits you just thinking about the task ahead. It's the universal Latin American complaint when something requires more effort than you want to give.