tambâ tacho

== Macanese == === Alternative forms === tambâ-tacho === Etymology === Literally, “to fix pot/pan”. Possibly a calque of Cantonese 補鑊 / 补镬 (bou2 wok6, “to fix a mess”, literally “to repair a wok”). === Verb === tambâ tacho (intransitive, idiomatic) to substitute or fill in for someone at the last minute === References === https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#t Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988), “tambar tacho”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 276