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Old April 10, 2010, 04:11 PM
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Lightbulb La masco pero no la trago

when you don´t like sb but you do as if nothing.
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Old April 10, 2010, 04:19 PM
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Robin, where do you find all these expressions? I promise you I had never ever heard this one before.
No la trago would be I can't stand her. There is another expression that is quite impolite and a lot harsher:she gives me the creeps/she creeps me out
But I guess you meant something different.
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Old April 10, 2010, 04:33 PM
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In Chile we say: La/lo mastico, pero no la/lo trago.
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Old April 10, 2010, 09:25 PM
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I think that is what he meant to type - mastico. I'll rename the thread.

I can only take so much of her/him.
I can only stand so much of him/her.

I can only take him/her in small doses.
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Old April 10, 2010, 11:08 PM
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I think that is what he meant to type - mastico. I'll rename the thread.

I can only take so much of her/him.
I can only stand so much of him/her.

I can only take him/her in small doses.
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"La paso no más."
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Old April 11, 2010, 12:01 AM
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That expression is very popular in my country.
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Old April 11, 2010, 05:02 AM
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Mascar is perfectly fine.
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Old April 11, 2010, 05:51 AM
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Mascar is perfectly fine.
Correcto, es solo la division.

Al final, mascar y masticar es lo mismo.

mascar = byte

masticar = chew

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Mascar is perfectly fine.
Sorry, I see that both are used, but mastico is more popular on the Internet. También se dice, "Lo/la mastico pero no lo/la paso".
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Actually, I think it means ... taking someone at face value.......no further

You don't really dislike the person but there is something about him/her that you just don't like but cannot quite put your finger on it.

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