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/Sounds like "sah" (as in "salsa") + "LEER" (as in "lead") + "rahs" (as in "rapper") + "PAHN" (as in "park") + "doh" (as in "door")/
To barely scrape by, pass by the skin of your teeth, or survive a situation with the minimum possible margin. When you "salís raspando" you made it, but just barely, and everyone knows it was close.
“I barely passed the exam, made it by a single point.”
“He just barely kept his job, they almost fired him.”
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To barely scrape by, pass by the skin of your teeth, or survive a situation with the minimum possible margin. When you "salís raspando" you made it, but just barely, and everyone knows it was close.
“I barely passed the exam, made it by a single point.”
“He just barely kept his job, they almost fired him.”
Sacarle jugo
To squeeze every possible benefit out of something or someone, to make the most of an opportunity without wasting any of it. The person who saca el jugo never leaves value on the table.