Learn English With Griselda Series 1302 Flashcards
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Disparate role
Completely different
Savvy
Knowledgeable
So you have knowledge to make the right decisions
Ruthless
Without mercy
Like cruel, demanding, that type of person
Get by
Phrasal verb
To manage to deal with a difficult situation, using whatever money, equipment, etc. you have
“Get by” until you can stands on your own feet
Get by - To be able to survive, to pay our bills, to eat
Stands on her own feet - until she’s able to fully support herself and her family by herself
Become independent
If you don’t give a fuck?
You don’t care
It doesn’t matter who buys that one kilo
Just need to sell it
You Colombian?
He doesn’t say “ are you Colombian?”
Grammar speaking
Cut auxiliary verb
Good ear
He understands easily
He was able to listen to her and figure out that she was from Colombia
I keim-“ere”
Native English pronunciation
I came here
Caddy
Short form Cadillac
Cocaine is sourced from Caquetá
That it was obtained there
Here is used like verb To be sourced
A source is a place where you get it
Smuggle the cocaine
To bring illegally
Pain in the ass
Pain in the neck
You are annoying
30 “grand”
It’s slang for money
30 grand is 30,000
When she talks about her business she says that it
“Run on volumes”
Large quantity
To run in the context of business means to operate
Aight
Fast American speech
Alright
Whad-am-ai gonna do
So “what am I going to do “ with one ki?
Connecting speech
Blend in
Become a part of the surrounding
She means that it’s difficult to be accepted
Stick out like a sore thumb
If anyone’s ever, like slammed their thumb in a door
It gets all red at the end of it
Get stuck on
Insecurities
Block her or prevent her from doing what she needs to do
Or
Physically not be able to move
You can’t think
To make it
To achieve success, to become successful
She says, I don’t think “I would have made it” anywhere with insecurities
Perfect conditionals
It’s usually used in combination with the third conditional
If I had done something, I would have made it
Voluptuous
Well-shaped woman like an hourglass
Similar to curvaceous
Dumb
Stupid