When someone is perseverating or worrying too much, some Spanish speakers will suggest they stop obsessing with the phrase no te comas el coco. Literally, it means “don’t eat the coconut,” the word coco in Spanish being slang for...
guru n.— «In Brampton’s Springdale neighbourhood, turbaned Sikh youth recently arrived from India are commonly called “guru” and other derogatory terms by their “coconut” second-generation Punjabi-Canadian peers...