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🇵🇹 Portuguese, taken literally

Cair a ficha

Literally

the token falls

What it really means

It finally clicks / sinks in. (like an old payphone token dropping)

realizing something belatedly, mid-conversation

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Portuguese, taken literally

Estar com a pulga atrás da orelhato have a flea behind the earDar um jeitinhoto give a little wayEncher linguiçato stuff sausageQuebrar o galhoto break the branchDar bola (para)to give ballPisar na bolato step on the ball