{"id":8327,"date":"2019-11-16T18:43:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T18:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=8327"},"modified":"2019-11-16T18:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T18:43:23","slug":"what-is-cair-a-ficha-in-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/what-is-cair-a-ficha-in-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ‘cair a ficha’ in Portuguese?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sauda\u00e7\u00f5es a todos os leitores! Greetings, everyone! The other day I was thinking about interesting topics to cover in our blog and then it hit me: I should write about cair a ficha<\/strong>! <\/span>Cair a ficha<\/b> is a popular idiom that we use regularly in Portuguese to express that moment when we realize or notice, sometimes suddenly, something that we did not know before or that was not clear to us.<\/p>\n

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Typical Brazilian pay phones (photo by Clovis Vieira at Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n

Its origin dates back from pay phones and the metal coins (ficha<\/em>) the used to be inserted in the slot and would drop (cair<\/em>) from the device at the end of a call. Nowadays, phone booths can barely be found around the streets anymore, as smartphones have taken over. But what matters is that the term has not changed over the years and is still often used by all of us, regardless of the generation.<\/span><\/p>\n

But how should you use it? What does it mean, exactly? Is there a translation or equivalent way of saying cair a ficha<\/strong> in English? There are actually several possibilities, so you can choose from more than one. And that’s what today’s post it all about!<\/p>\n

the penny dropped<\/b><\/h3>\n