Ask a Mexican on Vale Verga and Swimming with Clothes On

Published June 10, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.
I worked a summer job during college in southern Arizona during the late 1960s, when most of my co-workers were Mexicans from the state of Sonora. Their favorite expression when something was broken was no vale verga, literally "Not worth dick," but actually meaning "totally...


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