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dê seus pulos — Meaning and Example | Brazilian Portuguese… | Falando

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dê seus pulos

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dê seus pulos

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Meaning

figure it out yourself, manage on your own

Example

Não tenho como te ajudar agora, dê seus pulos!

I can't help you right now, figure it out yourself!

Origin

The image is transparent: pular means "to jump" or "to hop," and dar seus pulos pictures someone nimbly leaping between obstacles instead of waiting around for help — the same resourceful, improvising spirit behind expressions like se virar.

No single documented coinage is on record, though. Dictionaries confirm the meaning — to manage on your own, to hustle up a solution — but not an origin story, and the entry that discusses it is user-contributed, so treat any specific origin story as unsupported.

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Source: Dicionário inFormal — dar seus pulos.

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