just another gringo
- idiom
- Slur
:
otro gringo más
- Locals often roll their eyes when they see just another gringo taking selfies at the plaza.
Examples
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Tired of being treated like just another gringo, he tried to learn some Spanish and fit in.
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She didn't want to seem like just another gringo, so she made an effort to respect local customs.
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Why do you call him just another gringo?
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Tourists often feel like just another gringo in Mexico.
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Locals often roll their eyes when they see just another gringo taking selfies at the plaza.
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She didn't want to seem like just another gringo, so she made an effort to respect local customs.
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Tourists often feel like just another gringo in Mexico.
Synonyms
19
3.7
A person not accepted by a group
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8.1
A person from the United States or from another country in the Americas
Antonyms
How Typical
34
4.4
843
1.0
- Slur
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1.0
∞
2.2
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4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'merely a typical/undistinguished foreigner' is directly compositional from 'just' (merely) + 'another' (one more/one of many) + 'gringo' (foreigner/American), so the dismissive sense is inferable from the parts. The construction 'just another + noun' is a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand the intended meaning.
Etymology
The phrase just another gringo comes from how Spanish speakers call many foreign visitors gringo, often Americans, and it creates the picture of someone who looks like any other tourist. So, when people say just another gringo, they mean 'an ordinary, typical foreign tourist'.