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Coin flip. "Echar un volado" means flipping a coin to settle a decision by chance, the Mexican equivalent of "heads or tails." Used when no one can agree on who goes first, who pays, or whose turn it is.
“Flip a coin to see who goes first: heads or tails.”
“Nobody knows whose turn it is to do the dishes, so they are going to flip a coin.”
/Sounds like "boh" (as in "boat") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "doh" (as in "door")/
Someone who is spaced out and not paying attention to what is happening around them. In Mexico, a volado seems to be elsewhere mentally, always off in their own world, missing entire conversations without even noticing.
“Hey, you're totally spaced out, I called you three times and you didn't hear me.”
“He's always checked out in class, the teacher got tired of calling his attention.”
/Sounds like "boh" (as in "boat") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "doh" (as in "door")/
A distracted, absent-minded person who's got their head in the clouds without paying attention to anything. In Mexico and Chile, volado describes someone who lives in another world.
“I'm so volado today, I forgot everything I had to do.”
“He's so volado he left his keys in the door.”
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/Sounds like "boh" (as in "boat") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "doh" (as in "door")/
Coin flip. "Echar un volado" means flipping a coin to settle a decision by chance, the Mexican equivalent of "heads or tails." Used when no one can agree on who goes first, who pays, or whose turn it is.
“Flip a coin to see who goes first: heads or tails.”
“Nobody knows whose turn it is to do the dishes, so they are going to flip a coin.”
/Sounds like "boh" (as in "boat") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "doh" (as in "door")/
Someone who is spaced out and not paying attention to what is happening around them. In Mexico, a volado seems to be elsewhere mentally, always off in their own world, missing entire conversations without even noticing.
“Hey, you're totally spaced out, I called you three times and you didn't hear me.”
“He's always checked out in class, the teacher got tired of calling his attention.”
/Sounds like "boh" (as in "boat") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "doh" (as in "door")/
A distracted, absent-minded person who's got their head in the clouds without paying attention to anything. In Mexico and Chile, volado describes someone who lives in another world.
“I'm so volado today, I forgot everything I had to do.”
“He's so volado he left his keys in the door.”
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Bolero
A street shoeshine worker who polishes shoes at a fixed stand in plazas or downtown areas, typically using a wooden box full of shoe polish and brushes. A classic figure of Mexican city centers.