talsik
tálsik with stress marks
splash; to fly out; fired from a job
Usage Note
Talsik originally refers to liquid or small objects flying outward from impact, like oil splashing from a hot pan. Colloquially it has also come to mean being dismissed or fired from work ('natalsik sa trabaho'), giving it a colorful informal register that blends the physical and social.
Examples
" Iwasan mo ang talsik ng mantika. "
Natural Translation
Avoid the splash of oil.
Literal Translation
Avoid you the splash of oil.
" Umiwas ako sa talsik ng mantika. "
Natural Translation
I avoided the splash of oil.
Literal Translation
Avoided I to splash of oil.
" Nag-ingat siya sa pagprito ng isda dahil minsan na siyang napaso ng talsik ng kumukulong mantika. "
Natural Translation
She was careful while frying the fish because she had once been burned by the splash of boiling oil.
Literal Translation
Careful she in-the frying of fish because once already she got-burned by-the splash of boiling oil.
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