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A mild, family-friendly interjection expressing surprise or mild frustration. Completely inoffensive and used across age groups in Latin America as a softened exclamation.

A very natural fixed expression in Latin American Spanish. The verb meterse (literally 'to put oneself into') is the key non-compositional element; learners often default to 'tener problemas' instead.

Literally 'open-mouthed', but used idiomatically to mean stunned or amazed. The fixed compound form makes it feel like a single word rather than a phrase.

In formal contexts armar means to arm, but colloquially it means to assemble or put together something, often a group, a scheme, or a situation. The colloquial sense is not guessable from the primary dictionary meaning.