A favor is help or help.
Favor is help or help that is granted or requested from someone. For example: “Can you do me a favor and go buy milk at the market?” , “I need someone to do me the favor of lending me ten pesos: tomorrow I will return it to you” , “Juan did Ofelia a favor and never misses an opportunity to remind her” .
A favor, on the other hand, is a benefit , a grace or an honor : “The company gave me two months of favor until I can regularize the situation,” “With the favor of those present, we are going to begin the ceremony.”
Expressions with the term favor
The concept of favor allows various expressions to be pronounced. “Do me the favor” or “Do me the favor” can be used to make a request ( “Do me the favor of handing me those papers, if you would be so kind” , “Do me (do me) the favor, wait for me five minutes while I change” ) or to demand something ( “Do me a favor and shut up,” “Don't say nonsense, do me a favor.” ).
The expression “Please” also has two uses: to formulate a request ( “Pass me the salt, please” , “Can you spell your last name for me, please?” ) or to express a protest ( “One hundred pesos for those pants ? Please!" , "I've never seen anything so unpleasant. Please, they're all crazy."
Nor can we ignore the existence of the expression “in favor of” . With it, what becomes clear is that a person agrees and supports another individual, group or institution. In this sense, a clear example of the use of said prepositional phrase would be: “Manuel is in favor of that politician who staunchly defends equality between all citizens.”
In the same way, we also have to refer to the interjective phrase “favor to the king” that in the past was used to make clear the action by which the ministers of justice of the moment requested help and relief with the clear objective of being able to obtain arrest a specific criminal.
Doing someone a favor means collaborating with them.
Other phrases
To all this we should add the fact that there is an expression that is used in games of chance and that is also based on the term that we are now analyzing. We are referring to "suit of favor" , which is used in card games to determine which suit (golds, cups, clubs...) is the one that can double the score in the event of winning.
“Doing someone a favor,” meanwhile, is an expression of colloquial language that refers to granting an occasional sexual relationship . It is a somewhat vulgar phrase that denigrates the person to whom the relationship is granted: “Do Marta a favor and see if it changes her mood,” “Mario insisted so much that last night I did him the favor.”
Favor in ancient times
It is interesting to emphasize the fact that in the past the term favor was also used with a significant other.
Specifically, long ago it was used to refer to the flower or ribbon with which ladies entertained gentlemen as a sign of love or admiration, among other feelings. Then these men were responsible for, at public festivals, wearing them on the lapels of their suits, on their hats or on their arms.