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tacho
🇵🇹 Portuguese slang from Portugal
What does “tacho” mean?
a cushy job (often through connections)
Example
“Arranjou um tacho na câmara.”
He landed a cushy job at the town hall.
Good to know
Literally "pot": always something cooking.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
💼 Work
The textbook way to say it: emprego fácil
Heard in a conversation
Cod in Grandma's kitchen
Leonor Não te baldes, que a avó vê tudo! Da última vez fugiste para o café.
Don't skip out, Grandma sees everything! Last time you ran off to the café.
Tomás Ya, e ela ficou fula. Ok, ok, eu ajudo. Que cena é esta no tacho?
Yeah, and she was furious. OK, OK, I'll help. What's this thing in the pot?
Leonor É o bacalhau dela, pá. O segredo é a cebolada, mas ela não conta a ninguém.
It's her cod, man. The secret is the onion sauce, but she won't tell anyone.
More from Portugal
- desenrascarto improvise a fix
- baldar-seto skip, bail out
- estar de rastosto be wiped out, exhausted
- cunhaconnections, string-pulling
- biscatesodd jobs, a bit on the side
- trabalhar que nem um mouroto work like a slave
- o patrãothe boss
- fixecool, great
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