To be amazing — or unbelievable, in a bad way.
Pure tone. *Eres la leche* can mean you’re brilliant or you’re impossible. *A toda leche* means at full speed, and *¡leche!* alone is a mild expletive standing in for *hostia*.
Literally "to be the milk". Nobody has a convincing explanation, which is very Spanish.
Ambiguous by design. Context and face decide whether you have been praised.
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