guaraná com rolha
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “guarana with a cork”. This refers to guarana-flavored soft drinks, which used a cork-like covering below the bottle cap starting in 1921. That cork-like covering is not used any more, and is seen as a symbol of old times.[1]
Noun
[edit]guaraná com rolha m (uncountable)
- (Brazil) the old times, an unspecified time period that happened a long time ago. Usually, it refers to some time in the 20th century, and is often but not always said as mil novecentos e guaraná com rolha (“nineteen hundred and guarana with a cork”)