Terms I've learned this weekend:
"Coco vacía" - literally, empty coconut; figuratively, when you expect to receive something good but there's nothing in it. (Also for when your home's been gutted.)
"Un canalla" - a degraded person, but the key here is that this is the nastiest thing one might say in *polite, political company*. There are plenty of worse words, but this one is used to accuse another public figure of being a disreputable POS without being seen as vulgar oneself. #ContextIsKey!
From the Italian "canaglia", oddly enough! We use dogs for a lot, don't we? Dogged determination, dog days of summer, dog-eat-dog world, screwing the pooch (😬), you dog!, you bitch!, you curr!, doggy bag, etc.
Come to think of it, the dog theme gets a little overworked, no? We *might* not be as creative as we like to think. 🙃
@MLClark
Ewww, I'd never heard the pooch one. 😬 Maybe we need to bring back curr though, as in "You Scurvy Curr!"
Otherwise, let's be kinder to our canine friends!