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What does “Caer gordo” mean?

SpanishEmotions and relationshipsInformal

Caer gordo

Word for word

To fall fat

What it really means

To come across as unlikeable, to be unbearable to somebody. The one who «cae gordo» is the person disliked, not the one doing the disliking.

How we say it in English

To rub someone the wrong way

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