el sábado, sabadete, camisa nueva y polvete
Spanish
Etymology
Literally, "Saturday, Saturday, new shirt and powder". Traditionally, before the days of washing machines, men would wash their shirt only once a week (Saturday). The polvete (powder) refers to the talcum powder used to clean the shirt. The word sabadete may have originally been a nonce word coined in order to rhyme with polvete.
Over the years, polvo has acquired a slang meaning of sexual intercourse, so the phrase has come to carry connotations of weekend sexual liaisons.
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