Ahuecando el ala

laepelba · #1 January 04, 2011, 06:14 PM

I am being tutored in conversational Spanish by a Mexican profesora. She uses a lot of modismos y dichos... One that she used this afternoon is something like "ahuecando de (o el?) ala", meaning something like "irse". Right? She says it is muy, pero muy mexicano. Comments? Malila?

chileno · #2 January 04, 2011, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by laepelba

I am being tutored in conversational Spanish by a Mexican profesora. She uses a lot of modismos y dichos... One that she used this afternoon is something like "ahuecando de (o el?) ala", meaning something like "irse". Right? She says it is muy, pero muy mexicano. Comments? Malila?

Ahuecar el ala means "open the/your wings and start flying away" = to go/depart.

aleCcowaN · #3 January 05, 2011, 02:17 AM

Exactly that. It's informal. Don't use it with every person as it sounds like "go ... now".

**AngelicaDeAlquezar** · #4 January 05, 2011, 09:08 AM

"Ahuecar el ala" is indeed widely used in Mexico. It's too colloquial and addressed to someone else to ask them to leave immediately a place is rude, or one must have a very close relationship to them so they'll understand it as a joke and not be offended.

Ahueca el ala. No te quiero ver aquí.
Out of here now. I don't want to see you here.

A ver, niños, ahuecando el ala. Váyanse a hacer escándalo a otra parte.
Alright, children, get out of here right now. Go make your noise somewhere else.

Pues mejor voy ahuecando el ala. Ya se me hizo tarde para llegar a mi cita.
I'd better beat it. I'm already late for my appointment.

laepelba · #5 January 05, 2011, 07:23 PM

I like it.

When I mentioned it to some of my Mexican students this morning, they all smiled.

sosia · #6 January 06, 2011, 03:26 AM

Also used in Spain, but informal as stated.
Viene la policía, hay que ahuecar el ala.

Saludos

ROBINDESBOIS · #7 January 14, 2011, 05:43 PM

Right in class when the class is about to finish, you can say id ahuecando el ala, familiar language but fun !

laepelba · #8 January 15, 2011, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ROBINDESBOIS

Right in class when the class is about to finish, you can say id ahuecando el ala, familiar language but fun !

If I were to use the ustedes form, it would be "vayan ahuecando el ala", right?

**AngelicaDeAlquezar** · #9 January 15, 2011, 07:37 PM

@Lou Ann: Right.

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