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/Sounds like the English word "volt" + "eh" (as in "egg") + "AHR" (as in "art") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "TOHR" (as in "toll") + "tah" (as in "tar")/

Meaning

To flip the script, to completely turn a situation around when things looked lost. In Colombia, voltear la torta is that satisfying reversal: you were losing, they underestimated you, and then you came back and changed everything.

Examples

We were losing 3-0 and flipped it in the second half.

I thought I was going to lose but I turned it around in the last round.

Regional synonyms

A long, yellow fruit in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, what most of the Spanish-speaking world calls 'plátano.' The great banana vs. plátano debate is a classic Latin American vocabulary difference.