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Common fixed expression used across Latin America to mean handling two tasks at once. Identical in image to the English idiom, but included because a learner encountering it in rapid speech might not catch the full fixed phrase. It functions as a single idiomatic unit.

The phrase 'todos estamos en esto' signals collective involvement in something secretive or morally grey. 'En esto' alone, in this conspiratorial tone, means 'part of this scheme', which is not the same as its literal sense of 'in this (topic)'.

Literally refers to a co-parent or godparent relationship, but in everyday Latin American Spanish it is used broadly to address someone as a familiar equal. When used by someone in a position of power or leverage, it can carry an edge of false friendliness.