Voy al Puro Once, Spanish Slang for Travelling On Foot

We’ve talked before about slang terms for going someplace on foot, like traveling by shanks mare or going with Pat and Charlie, Pat and Charlie being names for your legs.

Or taking the Chevrolet’s.

Yeah, the Chevrolet’s. I like that one. Well, we heard from Kevin Hendrickson in Green Bay, Wisconsin, who wrote to us with some other examples he learned from his wife, Arely, who is from Honduras. One of them is, voy al puro once. It literally means, I’m just going 11. And the idea is that 11 looks like a pair of legs.

Oh, yeah. I’ve heard versions of that before. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Taking the number 11 bus.

Yeah. Taking the number 11 bus. Yeah.

Using your legs.

Right. And another one that I really like that he sent was, voy a puro pincel. And a pincel is a very fine paintbrush. And so if you’re using a pincel, it takes you a really long time to paint anything. So it’s sort of like if you’re going to walk there, it’s going to take you a while.

Oh, yeah. So what is it in Spanish again?

Voy a puro pincel. I’m just going fine paintbrush. Taking my time.

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