Meaning of mañana habit | Babel Free

Definitions

The perceived negative tendency of Spanish-speaking Americans and Filipinos to procrastination and laziness.

uncountable

Examples

“If the Californios as whole had any shortcoming, it was what the long-term American resident Eugene (or, more often, Don Eugenio) Rafael Plummer (1853–c. 1943) described, drawing on his own experiences for over 30 years as an official English-Spanish interpreter in the courts of Los Angeles, as “that old mañana habit.””

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