EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
a rigged outcome; a scam...
tea (gossip)...
That's the tea; That's the gossip....
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/LU-tong ma-KAW/
FIL: Isang idyoma na tumutukoy sa isang sitwasyon, laro, o kasunduan na ang resulta ay napagpasyahan na nang maaga at may pandaraya.
EN: a rigged outcome; a scam
When you feel like you've been played. You thought it was a fair game—a job promotion, a contest, even a basketball match—but it turns out the winner was already decided from the start. "Ah, kaya pala nanalo, lutong-Makaw!" It's the corporate and political version of your sibling getting the bigger piece of cake because "they asked first."
Literally "cooked in Macau". The idiom's origin is debated, but often linked to gambling results being "cooked" or predetermined.
ROOT MEANING: cooking; dish; cuisine
This is an idiom. While it literally means "Macanese cooking," it's almost exclusively used to mean a fixed or rigged situation.
🇵🇭 Halata namang lutong-Makaw ang resulta ng eleksyon sa samahan nila.
🇺🇸 It's so obvious that the result of their organization's election was rigged.
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