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Spanishcuéntame una de vaqueros
Meaning: (Venezuelan Spanish) A challenge to someone to stop lying or exaggerating; an equivalent of "pull the other one" or "tell me another one."
Literally: Tell me one of cowboys
Example: “¿Que tú cocinaste esto? Cuéntame una de vaqueros.” — You cooked this? Pull the other one.
English equivalent: Pull the other one
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English: pull the other one
Origin: Venezuelan Spanish. Literally "tell me a cowboy one": the listener sarcastically asks for another tall tale, as if the last claim were as made up as a Western. Wiktionary records it in Venezuela as a way to brush off a liar, like English "pull the other one."
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