adverb/esˌtaɾ ˌentɾe ˌpinto i baldeˈmoɾo/
in two minds, undecided; to be half gone, to be three sheets to the wind
Literally, “be between Pinto and Valdemoro”. Pinto and Valdemoro are two towns in the province of Madrid that used to be divided by a stream. The popular etymology is that once upon a time, a drunk man was walking along the river, jumping from one bank to the other and saying he was in Pinto, then Valdemoro, then Pinto, then Valdemoro again. After a while, he fell into the stream and then announced he was “between Pinto and Valdemoro”. Other versions of the etymology allude to the kings of the H