- Echar la casa por la ventana: To spare no expense
- Echar el cuento, el caballo, el ruco or los perros: To seduce a woman.
- Echarse un polvo: To have sex
- Echarse
Category Archives: Spanish phrases
To Cost an arm and a leg
- Costar un ojo de la cara: To cost an arm and a leg or require a lot of effort to achieve
- Filo: Hunger. Hambre is the correct term.
- Dejar el ombligo enterrado: The place where a person was born
- Guachos or guayabas: Both words are slang for eyes. The correct word is los ojos. Pelar las guayabas means to keep one’s eyes peeled.
- Paquete: Bull or lies.
- Pasar raspando: To scrape by. We also say, “Pasar dejando pelos en el alambre.”
- Pelar los dientes: To smile. Sonreír is the correct Spanish word.
- Ser un saco de mañas: To have many bad habits.
- Donde el diablo perdió la chaqueta: Very far away.
- Ya vengo: I’ll be right there.
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To be very Happy
- Botarse: To spend a lot of money. Gastar mucho dinero means the same.
- Chochosca: Money.
- Como hormiga en popi: To be very happy.
- Estar como agua para chocolate: To be boiling mad.
- Estar limpio/a or pelado/a: To be out of money
Coffee is called iodine in Costa Rica
Atravesar el caballo: To change the subject in the middle of a conversation.
Cartucho: This word actually means a cartridge but in this case it is slang for the city of Cartago.
Chema: Is slang for a shirt
Con el moco caído: To be sad
Con toda la pata: Perfect or great.
Cuero: A woman with a bad reputation. Cuero actually
To ask for a blanket in hell
A cachete: means something is really good. A cachet inflado is a variation of the same expression.
Buchón: a person who wants everything for himself or a ‘hog’. There is an expression: Cada buchón muere pelón..People who want everything for themselves die bald.
Chante: one’s house or home. Choza(literally)
