W27Street-Wisdom 💬🇻🇪 A otro perro con ese hueso.
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Teaser
A raised eyebrow for the third spam claim. Sudden syncing errors do not cover a miss.
TLDR
Someone throws you a low-effort excuse, like a dry bone, hoping you will chase it. You recognize the insultingly poor pretext and refuse to play along, because you are not easily fooled. You use it when a colleague offers a weak explanation for a poorly done task, or when a child makes up a ridiculous story to avoid chores and you expect better.Context
This saying is the verbal equivalent of a raised eyebrow that says, “I know exactly what you are doing.” You hear it when a vendor claims “the email must have ended up in spam” for the third time. It also comes up when a teammate blames a missed deadline on a sudden, unexplained “syncing error”.Going deeper
In English
Closest English equivalents include:
- Tell that to someone else
- I wasn’t born yesterday
- Don’t give me that
- Get real
The Cost of Cheap Bones
When you accept a transparently bad excuse, you are not being polite. You are training people that you are cheap to buy off. They throw you a dry bone (a rushed text, a vague delay, a friend constantly flaking on plans with flimsy reasons) because it takes less effort than delivering real results or telling the hard truth. Every time you nod and swallow it to avoid a confrontation, resentment builds, and the quality of your relationships degrades. True trust requires holding the line on reality, not accepting cheap pretexts.
You reach for this saying when someone tries to insult your intelligence with a pretext so thin you can see right through it.