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After the Fiesta, Saca Garra

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Ray, a teacher at a bilingual elementary school near Dallas, Texas, shares the Spanish term his family uses for gossiping after a party: saca garra. Spanish garra means "claw" or "talon," and sacar la garra is used on either side of the Texas-Mexico border meaning "to gossip," or literally, "to take out one's claws." In Mexican Spanish, garra can mean either "claw" or "old clothes," so it's possible there's also a multilingual pun involving the idea of metaphorically "airing dirty laundry." This is part of a complete episode.