In Marge We Trust

The standard cry for help in Latin American Spanish. More urgent and genuine-sounding than the borrowed '¡Help!' that sometimes appears in informal speech.

Literally 'to make oneself the dead one.' Used both in its literal sense (playing dead to avoid danger) and figuratively to mean staying quiet and out of sight to avoid trouble.

Used across much of Latin America to describe taking something for free, especially by rummaging or asking around. In this context it means grabbing discarded items.

Widely used across Mexico and Central America to express that something cannot be helped or to refuse flatly. Tone shifts the meaning: resigned acceptance or flat refusal.