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Old November 05, 2008, 03:52 PM
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The noun el pie means foot.
The fun thing about idiomatic expressions, like dar pie a, is that, even though you know the meaning of every word in the expression, it takes on another meaning.
Hincapié has yet another meaning, even though it was formed from hincar and pie.

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