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Comi que fiquei triste

Portuguese

Meaning

To eat so much you're uncomfortably stuffed.

Example

No almoço de domingo da vó, comi que fiquei triste.

At Grandma's Sunday lunch, I ate so much I could barely move.

Origin

A jokey regionalism from Ceará (Northeast Brazil), recorded in local dialect glossaries: the humour turns on the literal "fiquei triste" ("I got sad") standing in for the heavy, sluggish discomfort after overeating.