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/Sounds like "tohr" (as in "toll") + "PEH" (as in "pet") + "doh" (as in "door")/
A piece of paper with hidden notes to cheat on a test or exam in Chile. It's the student art of compressing an entire subject onto a tiny paper you hide in your sleeve, shoe, or wherever you can.
“He made a torpedo on his hand but it got erased by sweat.”
“They caught him with the torpedo and voided his test.”
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/Sounds like "tohr" (as in "toll") + "PEH" (as in "pet") + "doh" (as in "door")/
A piece of paper with hidden notes to cheat on a test or exam in Chile. It's the student art of compressing an entire subject onto a tiny paper you hide in your sleeve, shoe, or wherever you can.
“He made a torpedo on his hand but it got erased by sweat.”
“They caught him with the torpedo and voided his test.”
Le cayó el veinte
The penny finally dropped: someone finally understood something that had been going over their head. The image comes from old Mexican pay phones where you dropped a 20-cent coin ("el veinte") to make the connection. Used both sincerely when someone genuinely figures something out, and sarcastically when they took way too long.