not me! leave me out of it
Vou chupar um picolé. — Lá ele, eu não!
I'm going to suck on a popsicle. — That's him, not me!
Bahian coinage that went national in 2022 when Qatar's World Cup mascot 'La'eeb' coincidentally sounded like the slang. The phrase — literally 'him over there' — is a deflection: when someone says something with a sexual double meaning, the listener responds lá ele, i.
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