'viajar na maionese', translated to 'travel in the mayonnaise', meaning to say something crazy - 'tudo vai terminar em pizza', translated to 'it's all going to end in pizza', meaning no bad outcome will come from a situation involving confict - 'dar bolo', translated 'giving someone a cake', meaning standing someone up.

cariocas also have a unique way of saying things which requires a sort of calibration only someone who is acquainted with their meaning is capable of - 'i'm arriving now', for instance, can mean a whole host of different things, including 'i'll be there in the next few hours'.

the way that cariocas express themselves is profoundly distinctive, but on the whole it is characterized by a playful and light comedy - a manipulation and elastication of meanings, which unites the serious with the humorous, shining new light on a feeling or idea - carioquês is the language of carioca's, but who they are and all that they do is very 'carioquice.'