The story
Enchufe is a plug, the kind in the wall, and in Spain also the socket a nephew gets plugged into: a job got through who you know. Whoever got it that way is enchufado. English has string-pulling, or the old boys' network.
enchufe
en-CHOO-feh[enˈtʃufe]
Pronunciation: Speaker: Marreromarco · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commonsconnections that get you a job — string-pulling
Closest in English: connections, contacts, pull. None of them covers it.
How it went in the game
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- Which language is it from?Spanish
- What does it literally say?A plug in the wall
- Where would you hear it?A job going to the manager's nephew
- What does it mean?A job got through who you know
More Spanish words
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- Verschlimmbessern German
- niksen Dutch