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mientras se daba todo el rollo.

English translation: while the whole mess was going on

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Spanish term or phrase:	mientras se daba todo el rollo.
English translation:	while the whole mess was going on
Entered by:	skam

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18:58 Jul 22, 2011

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Spanish term or phrase: mientras se daba todo el rollo.

The speaker is talking about not being in a particular place mientras se daba todo el rollo. Mexican.

Thank you.

skam

while the whole mess was going on

Explanation:
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Giovanni Rengifo
Colombia
Local time: 11:20

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Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

while the whole mess was going on

Giovanni Rengifo

while everything was going down

Altogringo

while the (whole) hassle was going on.

Oscar Rivera

Answers

43 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

mientras se daba todo el rollo

while the whole mess was going on

Explanation:
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Giovanni Rengifo
Colombia
Local time: 11:20
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 32

Grading comment

Thanks!

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks so much! That's what I had, just wanted to confirm the meaning.

53 mins confidence:

while the (whole) hassle was going on.

Explanation:
I just replaced "mess" for "hassle" and I put whole in brackets because the whole hassle didn't sound natural to me despite looking for it and finding it online.

Oscar Rivera
Argentina
Local time: 13:20
Native speaker of:

Spanish

6 hrs confidence:

while everything was going down

Explanation:
in other words, while everything was happening. May be slightly old but this is pretty and informal.
If you want to go more street, you could say while the shit was going down.

Altogringo
Local time: 18:20
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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Jul 22, 2011 - Changes made by lorenab23:
Language pair	English to Spanish => Spanish to English

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