Weather Slang
Mexican Weather Slang: How to Talk About Heat, Rain, and Earthquakes
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Meaning
A Mexican expression to describe how the weather, a situation, or an atmosphere suddenly got worse or complicated. It's used when the rain picked up, traffic locked up, the party turned tense, or a soccer match got out of hand. Literally 'it got ugly,' figuratively 'things just went sideways.'
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“We were going to go out but it got ugly with all that hail.”
“The game got ugly when they ejected the goalkeeper.”
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Meaning
A Mexican expression to describe how the weather, a situation, or an atmosphere suddenly got worse or complicated. It's used when the rain picked up, traffic locked up, the party turned tense, or a soccer match got out of hand. Literally 'it got ugly,' figuratively 'things just went sideways.'
Examples
“We were going to go out but it got ugly with all that hail.”
“The game got ugly when they ejected the goalkeeper.”
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