Whoever speaks in a roundabout way does not express himself directly.
Rodeo is a term with more than a dozen meanings according to the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ). The first of them refers to the act of surrounding (putting things around others, making something go around , moving along a longer path than the traditional one).
A detour, therefore, is a route that involves a detour from the most direct route : “We had to make a detour to get there since the avenue was blocked by protesters,” “The storms caused the flooding of several roads and forced motorists to make different detours to reach their destination” , “Come directly home, without detours” .
Another of its many meanings refers to the place where the larger cattle gather, either to sell some cattle, to count them, to spend the night there or to rest for a few hours before continuing walking. The group formed by the hybrid farm (where we find the donkeys and mules), the horses or yegüerizos and the cattle farm are called larger livestock .
The rodeo as a way of saying
The term detour is also used symbolically, with reference to the indirect way of saying or doing things : “I am going to speak to you bluntly so that you understand what the situation is like,” “After many detours, the boy ended up confessing that he had broken up.” the vase” , “The mayor took a detour in the interview so as not to answer the most incisive questions” .
Talking or beating around the bush is avoiding getting to the truth , telling another person a fact that probably won't sit well with them. An attitude of this type can occur in any context, especially when there is a lot to lose . For example, between two friends, if one of them fears the other's reaction to a secret, or between an employee and his boss, if the former has made a very serious mistake that could put the company at risk. Although the most correct thing is to always adopt a frontal and sincere stance, these situations usually end in a confession, even if it is not immediate.
On the other hand, the detour in this sense can also consist of telling the truth, although using whatever resources we have to present it from a point of view that suits us . It is a way of telling something indirectly, and is useful in the examples presented in the previous paragraph. In this case, the fear of the interlocutor's reaction is less, probably because the potential consequences are not so serious. For example: if someone is afraid to tell someone who lent them a car that they have been in a crash, they can say “Well…. This... Let's say that parked outside, what is called parked, properly speaking, is not... But I have left it where you indicated. Yes indeed…" .
Rodeos are very popular in the United States.
An activity with horses or bulls
On the American continent, on the other hand, the notion of rodeo is used to name an activity that consists of riding raging horses or bulls and throwing lassos over the animals, among other practices. The concept also names the event and the place where these activities take place.
The largest rodeo on the planet is known as the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo . It takes place every year in the American city of Houston , with an average attendance of more than 2 million people on the various days of activities.
Rodeo in Germany
The word rodeo also has its meaning within Germanic ; that is, the jargon that ruffians and thieves use to communicate with each other.
This jargon arises from terms from our language or even foreign ones used in a very different way than indicated by dictionaries. In this case, rodeo serves to define the meeting or group of this type of people.