Te preparé un sandwich "debajo"... Ponmelo con mayonesa
Te preparé un sandwich debajo. I feel like I'm never gonna get the grasp of this. What does debajo have to do with this? She's making him a sandwich for work, that his wife doesn't know about, and he says (I'm assuming all this, no subtitles of course) that he would like some mayonnaise on it. I don't get "debajo" or "ponmelo" here. Put me it? Gracias.
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I think I figured it out. One of the definitions for "debajo" is "underhand" or "in secret". He wanted the sandwich but he didn't want his wife to know. So she made him one "debajo" and I guess it means in secret, which I did not know.
This doesn't make sense to me. The only possible explanation I have is that she wanted to hide the sandwich underneath something else. "El sandwich está debajo del libro", for example. Just plain "debajo" does not make sense to me.
Also, I don't get how "ponmelo" means "put some for me" because it looks like "put me on it
"Pónmelo" Put it for me (in this case) or put it on me. Aquí está el sandwich. Ok, pónmelo sobre la mesa -put it on the table for me (with lotsa mayo, willya?).
Aquí está tu sombrero. Ok, pónmelo por favor. Here's your hat. Ok, put it on me, please.
"Coge tu sombrero y póntelo, vamos a la playa calienta el sol"
Like Gekko or Cogumela say, "debajo" doesn't make sense unless it means literally underneath something, to keep it hidden from view. It would never mean "do something carefully, to avoid getting caught". As for the "pónmelo con mayonesa", it is a very usual way of asking for things, though I guess the "me" + "lo" suffixes may throw you off. Here's more examples of the word "poner", and the way they sound to us in Spanish, with English words:
"Pon la mesa" "put the table" (set the table)
"Ponlo en la mesa" "put it on the table"
"Ponme un sandwich" "put me a sandwich" (make me a sandwich)
"Pónmelo con mayonesa" "put me it with mayo" (it = the sandwich) (make it with mayo (for me) )
Debajo has not sense at all.
Options:
Te preparé un sandwich de paso.
Te preparé un sandwich para el trabajo.
Te preparé un sandwich de jamón.
Where were they when they were talking? Could "debajo" mean "downstairs"? "Ponmelo con mayonesa" just means "put some mayo on it for me".
You could be on to something Jeezle, with the debajo part. It could be like we (or should I say my kids lol ) say 'on the down low'.
Eg. Yeah, he's going out with so and so, but that's on the down low.
Makes no sense in English really but to those who hear it they know it means keep it to yourself.
Just an idea anyway 
I think I figured it out. One of the definitions for "debajo" is "underhand" or "in secret". He wanted the sandwich but he didn't want his wife to know. So she made him one "debajo" and I guess it means in secret, which I did not know. Also, I don't get how "ponmelo" means "put some for me" because it looks like "put me on it". Gracias.
