Slang used when someone steps in or sits on shit. When the smell is piercingly bad, people add a sharp object to the phrase to describe the stench, such as saying you cut yourself with a scalpel. It usually refers to stepping in the mess left by a viralata (a Dominican street dog, literally a can-tipper). It also applies to unknowingly sitting on a public bench where a dog has pooped, leaving you walking around with shit on your clothes.
It is recommended to do the following: 1. If you have a Te cortaste moment, stop at the first Payless you see to buy new shoes. With cholera in the country, it is not good to keep a shoe that is cut. What if a little cousin licks that shoe just to mess with you? Bad news. 2. If you do not want to throw the shoe away, simple. Find a shoeshine boy. Note: in Maquiteria (a neighborhood in Santo Domingo) they charge more, up to 50 pesos, to get the shit off the shoe, depending on the brand and the stank. Juan: Damn, it smells like horse shit. Joan: Yeah, I smell it too. Maybe it was you. Juan: Look, lift your foot. Joan: (looks down) me corté!! Juan: And with an English glass (a phrase used for very sharp objects or smells) too, toss that crap. Joan: Wait, turn around. Juan: What is it? Joan: Damn, you Te cortaste.
A Dominican expression, common in the San Francisco de Macoris region, used to describe someone who has terrible luck or to whom everything bad happens. (Tenares is a town located in the Cibao region near San Francisco de Macoris).
I got fired from my job, I must be the Toto De Tenare. Why me? Of course, it is because I am the Toto De Tenare.
1. Something that is extremely over-salted. 2. A person who is chronically unlucky and acts as a jinx, passing their bad luck onto others (the term is a regional pronunciation of salado, or salted).
1. Food you cannot eat because it is way too salao. 2. A person who is very salao, cannot catch a break, and passes that bad luck to everyone else.
A person who jinxes things or brings bad luck just by admiring or looking at them. The term refers to the act of ruining someone's luck or progress. (In Dominican culture, an Asaroso is believed to carry negative energy that can 'salt' or curse others, especially through envy or unwanted attention).
Once a guy gets hit by an Asaroso, he never catches a break again. It supposedly comes from a tribe in Northern Europe that ate roasted bear: those people had the power to jinx an enemy for life just by looking at them. That is where the name comes from: 'Watch out, here come the Asarosos'.
A person who causes harm or bad luck to something just by admiring it. (In the Dominican Republic, this refers to someone who jinxes others or is a general nuisance).
The guy they asaran never catches a break again. It originates from a Northern European tribe that ate roasted bear: those people had a certain power and just by looking at the enemy they jinxed them for life. That is where the name comes from: Watch out, here come the Asarosa.
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