Season 1 · Episode 13
Avatar: The Last Airbender
While Aang, Katara and Sokka are traveling, Sokka gets a fever. Katara and Aang try to help Sokka, when Katara also catches the fever. It's up to Aang to go up on his own to save his two friends. But before he can get the medicine he is captured by the newly promoted Admiral Zhao and put in Zhao's fortress.
Literally means 'how good', but repeated use in conversation often signals sarcasm or polite disinterest rather than genuine enthusiasm. Tone of voice is the key signal.
A fixed phrase used across all ages in everyday Spanish. The reflexive 'meterse' signals involvement or entanglement in a situation, which the literal 'to put oneself' does not fully convey in English.
Compositionally it means 'more or less', but in response to '¿cómo estás?' or similar questions it functions as a fixed filler meaning 'not great' or 'could be better', closer to 'so-so' than to a literal approximation.
Literally 'don't stay there', but used as an urgent push for someone to stop being idle and act immediately. The fixed command phrasing carries impatience that the literal reading undersells.