Spanish: "Para sustos estuvo bueno"English translation: That was quite a scare! 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | Spanish term or phrase: | "Para sustos estuvo bueno" | | English translation: | That was quite a scare! | | Entered by: | teju |
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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | Spanish term or phrase: "Para sustos estuvo bueno" | This is mexican spanish and I guess it means something like
"ya nos asustamos bastante". |
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teju
United States
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| It was okay if you wanted to scare someone.
Explanation:
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It was good for a scare.
It is the sort of thing one might say, it seems, of a horror film.
Happy Holidays.
|  Robert Forstag
United States
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Native speaker of:  English
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Asker: Thank you, Robert!
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Explanation:
Ya estuvo, ya estuvo bueno means:
> OK, I've got it. > That's enough. > Stop it.
So, something like: Don't need -or want- to be scared anymore...
Luck.
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Note added at 2 hrs 56 mins (2005-12-24 23:56:36 GMT)
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También decimos: ya estuvo suave.
| Juan Jacob
Mexico
Native speaker of:  Spanish, French
PRO pts in category: 8
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Asker: Gracias, Juan, muy claras todas tus explicaciones!!
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