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/TE-la/

A lot, very hard, or something incredibly complicated or surprising. In Spain, 'tela' is the word you reach for when something exceeds normal scale — the queue was tela, the price was tela, what he said was tela marinera. Hard to pin down exactly but impossible to misread.

Example

"The apartment price is outrageous — seriously."

"What you're asking me to do is really something."

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Regional synonyms:

Reprobado, que no pasó un examen o curso en Perú. Cuando te jalan, es que te fue tan mal que ni con la curva te salvas. También puede significar atrevido o loco en otros contextos latinoamericanos informales.