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Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoIn Portuguese from Portugal, one of the words for “queue” is “bicha”,
In Portuguese from Brasil, “bicha” is a slang word for homosexual.
So the common Portuguese expression to tell somebody one’s going to stand on a queue - “vou para a bicha” (literally “I’m going to the queue”) - has a whole different meaning for Brasilians.
diemartin@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
There’s something similar double entendre in Ar/Uy. “Cola” is both “queue” and “tail/butt”. Now the common expression is “haceme la cola”, which could be taken as “do (stand in) the queue” or “do my butt”