Last week was April Fool’s Day, which we don’t celebrate in Argentina. Well, we do, but it’s on December 28, the so-called “Day of the Holy Innocents” to mark biblical infanticide, which is fun. Anyway, we’ve talked about buying mailboxes and eating stories before so let’s look at colorful little mirrors and hard faces.

To “give cat for hare” basically means to scam someone. According to several sources, including children’s educational magazine Billiken, the phrase comes from travelers being literally served cat meat instead of the hare they had paid for during the Middle Ages. Ripped off or catfished, as it........

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