Definitions tagged plan in the street dictionary.
A derogatory term for someone who lives on government welfare or social assistance (the term refers to planes sociales, which are public subsidy programs in Argentina). It implies that the person is lazy or avoids working by living off the state.
- Those road-blocking protesters are all planeros. They should go get a job.
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An expression used when a plan has been set and everyone is in agreement, meaning to go for it or get it done with intensity. (Machete refers to the blade tool and yile is a phonetic spelling of the razor brand Gillette).
When the guy told me what I had to do, dude, I gave it machete y yile.
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To ruin or shut down someone's plans before they can even put them into action. (In Dominican cockfighting culture, roosters are carried to matches in sacks; killing the bird while it is still in the bag means the fight is over before it started).
He wanted to take her to Manresa but his mother-in-law mató el gallo en la funda by tagging along.
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This phrase is used for someone who is being naive or has unrealistic expectations, similar to saying, dream on or in your dreams. (It refers to the title of a 1925 book by Dominican author Abigail Mejia).
They say that in five years there won't be any more blackouts: Sueña Pilarín!
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Mental masturbation; the act of overthinking or creating elaborate, unrealistic plans that seem easy in your mind but are impossible in reality (paja is a vulgar term for masturbation).
If I move at the speed of light, I travel through time.
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A shady scheme, backroom deal, or hushed conspiracy. It refers to when a group is plotting something in secret and immediately goes silent the moment someone else walks in.
1. When politicians meet behind closed doors for over an hour. 2. When the board of directors at your office meets for a whole afternoon and not even the secretaries know what the meeting is about. 3. Pedro and Jose have a tejemeneje going on, you see, they shut their mouths as soon as I arrived.
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