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44 Cards in this Set
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cómo te ha ido?
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How have you been?
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cómo te va?
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How are you?
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qué tal?
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How are things?
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de película
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incredible
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estar crudo/a
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Hungover (Mexico, Central America)
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estar de goma
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Hungover (Central America)
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tener resaca
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Hungover (Argentina, Uruguay, Spain)
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estar en la gloria
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To be in seventh heaven/very happy or comfortable
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(ser/estar) feliz como una lombriz
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To be happy as a lark (happy as a worm)
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la lana
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Money (wool)
"This expression survives from the day when there was great money to be made raising sheep in Nueva España" |
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más o menos
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Okay.
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Oye (tú)
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Hey! Listen!
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qué padre
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How fantastic (Mexico)
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padrísimo
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Fantastic (Mexico)
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qué me cuentas?
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What's happening?
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estar rendido/a
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to be exhausted
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creerse el/la muy muy
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He/she thinks he/she's hot stuff
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(ser) engreído/a
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to be conceited/stuck up
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hacer cola
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To stand in line/wait in line/get in line
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la cola
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Line (after an animal's tail)
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el fulano/fulana
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Refers to someone you don't know or whose name you don't want to say in a conversation
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no darle bola (a alguien)
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To not pay attention to someone
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hacerse mala sangre
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(to have bad blood) Don't get upset
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tener mala leche
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To be grouchy/in a grouchy mood
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(ser) mala leche
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To be a difficult person
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qué lío
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What a mess!
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chismear
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to gossip
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los trámites
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bureaucratic procedures - filling out forms, standing in lines, etc.
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las gestiones
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procedures, negotiations
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una gauchada
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an immense favor (Argentina)
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(ser) como uña y carne
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close friends (the nail and the flesh under it)
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qué te apetece?
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What do you feel like having? (Spain)
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qué te provoca?
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What are you in the mood for? (Colombia)
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demorar
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to take a long time
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re-
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intensifier
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hacer la vista gorda
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to ignore someone, look straight past them
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sudar la gota gorda
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to sweat bullets, to sweat it out
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meter la cuchara
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to butt into someone else's business
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por si las moscas
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just in case
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meter la pata
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to mess up/put your foot in your mouth
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el trasero
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butt
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el traste
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butt (Argentina)
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como si nada
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just like that, as if there were no problem
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el/la funcionario/a
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government worker
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