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a salto de mata
Language:
es
1.
Latin America
colloquial
informal
Living or moving furtively and irregularly to avoid detection or capture; living on the run.
Making frequent, rapid relocations in order to evade authorities or hostile parties.
2.
Latin America
colloquial
informal
Leading a precarious, improvised, or itinerant existence; living by occasional or ad hoc means.
Carrying out activities in a hasty, makeshift, or stopgap manner.
Examples:
ES:
A mi padre lo mataron cuando yo estaba escuenclito. Y de ahí, pues tuvimos que andar a salto de mata.
EN:
When my father was killed, I was only a kid and from that moment it was an everyday fight.
ES:
Ahora, se puede vivir a salto de mata por el resto de su vida.
EN:
Now, you can live hand to mouth for the rest of your life.
ES:
[Sanjuana] Se lo gasta en sus mujeres, en sus casas, en sus familias, en la vida que ha elegido a salto de mata.
EN:
[Sanjuana] He spends it on his women, his houses and his families, as part of a life of fleeing, which he chose.
ES:
Vamos a salto de mata, chica.
EN:
We're overworked, girl.
ES:
Por eso vive a salto de mata.
EN:
That's why she always operates like this.
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