to make a fool of oneself, to embarrass oneself
Escorreguei em uma casca de banana e todo mundo viu, paguei muito mico!
I slipped on a banana peel and everyone saw it, I made a fool of myself!
Mico names small monkeys such as marmosets. A common account links pagar mico to the Mico card game, where the player left holding the unmatched mico card loses. The cited article does not date the expression’s first use.
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