You asked for it, you got it!

In our first blog slang installment, here are a few of the more curious sounds you'll hear wandering round Spain, in colloquial Spanish, formal Spanish and with a reasonable equivalent in English:

A mi, plin           No me importa                          Makes no difference to me

En un pis pas     Inmediatamente, rápidamente      Right away

De eso nada      Negación rotunda, no, no y no      No, no, absolutely not!

Ni fu ni fa         Resultar indiferente                      It's all the same to me

And last, this business of pe and pa.

Saber o conocer algo de pe a pa means to know everything there is to know about something.

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