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USAGE NOTE
This idiom may be literally translated as "to eat the sandwich before recess."
comerse la torta antes del recreo(
koh
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mehr
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seh
lah
tohr
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tah
ahn
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tehs
dehl
rreh
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kreh
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oh
)An intransitive verb phrase is a phrase that combines a verb with a preposition or other particle and does not require a direct object (e.g., Everybody please stand up.).
1. (colloquial) (idiom) (to marry because of a pregnancy) (Mexico)
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
An idiom is a phrase with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the separate words that make it up (e.g., break a leg).
Regionalism used in Mexico
a. to have a shotgun wedding (colloquial) (idiom)
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
An idiom is a phrase with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the separate words that make it up (e.g., break a leg).
Sara se comió la torta antes del recreo; a los diecisiete ya estaba casada y había tenido su primer hijo.Sara had a shotgun wedding; by seventeen she was already married and had had her first child.
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