Thread: Llevarse un chasco
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Old May 24, 2011, 11:57 AM
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"Chasco" includes pranks, especially those which relate with deception or traps and end up with a humiliated victim, like the pluricentennial bladder filled with water over the door. What meaning was first, the sudden prank or the sudden disappointment, it's hard to tell, but it's nice to read the definition in Diccionario de Autoridades - C (DRAE, first edition, 1729):



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